'I had no one to turn to with my sadness and bad feelings.'
actor described how her loneliness as a teenager could have contributed to her eating disorders growing up, the origin of which Jameela attributes to being weighed in front of her classmates at the age of 14.
“I was really unhappy and I think it contributed to my ability to have an eating disorder for so long, because there was no one kind of monitoring me and I had no one to turn to with my sadness and bad feelings, so I just had a really rough time as a teenager,” Jameela said, adding that some of her body dysmorphia persists to this day.
“The only time I look in the mirror is when I put on my eyeliner in the morning and when I take it off at night,” the star. “I’m not interested in my appearance. I still suffer from body dysmorphia so it can be very distracting for me. Doing that has helped me concentrate on progressing and doing things that enrich my life, like watching my career grow and my relationships grow. That’s what gives me a wonderful sense of self.
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