While she was promoting her new movie, To The Bone, British actress Lily Collins, exposed that she suffered from eating disorders or syndromes as a teenager. In the film, the 27-year-old daughter of Actor Phil Collins, plays the role of a young artist who suffers from an eating disorder we know as anorexia. Here's everything on the Lily Collins eating disorder film and stands about.
Lily Collins Eating Disorder & To The Bone Film
Per Daily Mail, Collins wrote a book last year about her experience when she was a teenager. It includes a chapter about her encounter with an eating disorder during her younger years. Marti Noxon, the film's director, based the script on her experience and made a movie out of it.
"It caused me to have to expressively go there, but in a way, that was the safest, as healthy way possible, as we consulted a nutritionist, and really to physically go there but also emotionally", Collins said on being part of the film.
Lily Collins Eating Disorder: Early Warning Signs Include Difficulty Concentrating
- obsession with body size and shape
- weighing food
- cooking elaborate meals for others but refusing to eat
- refusal to eat
- denial of hunger, even when starving
- skipping meals
- making excuses for not
- eating only a few certain foods well-thought-out safe, commonly those low in fat and calories
- adopting meal or eating rituals, such as cutting food into tiny pieces or spitting food out after chewing
Signs And Symptoms
- fatigue
- dizziness or fainting
- seizure
- extreme weight loss
- thin appearance
- intolerance of cold
- dehydration
- constipation
- dry skin
- brittle nails
- hair that thins, breaks, or falls out
- abnormal blood counts
- elevated liver enzymes
- irregular heart rhythms
- low blood pressure
- absence of menstruation (amenorrhea)
- development of fine hair on the extremities (lanugo)
- osteoporosis, the loss of bone calcium, which may result in broken bones
In conclusion, if you know someone is undergoing these signs and symptoms mentioned above. They might need immediate help from you or from an expert. To The Bone also stars Keanu Reeves, Liana Liberato, and Alanna Ulbach.
