Lauren Aliana Details Her Battle With an Eating Disorder as a Teen on American Idol – E! Online

Lauren Alaina is opening up a few troublesome time in her life. 

The American Idol alum not too long ago revisited the criticism she acquired whereas within the public eye throughout her time on the competitors present in 2011, and the years instantly after, and the way it affected her wrestle with consuming issues. 

“I began having issues with consuming issues in center college after which in tenth grade, I’m going on American Idol,” Alaina instructed Hannah Brown whereas a visitor on the Better Tomorrow podcast August 9. “And I used to be in my very awkward, chubby part.”

 And whereas she describes that point in her life as a shift “between a teenager and a lady,” she famous that each viewers and the media have been harsh. 

“Folks commented so much on my weight. What sort of evil people can touch upon a 16-year-old youngster is past me now, however as that 16-year-old youngster, it obtained very dangerous for some time,” Alaina recalled. “I suffered with such a extreme consuming dysfunction in these years the place nothing was connecting. It wasn’t solely due to me needing to work exhausting, I misplaced who I used to be utterly. The whole lot. My gentle, it was dimmed fairly a bit due to the TV side.”