Former Actress and model Mel Wells had an unhealthy relationship with food for many years, until she one day realised what a negative impact this had on her life. Here she tells us her journey of learning to love her self, her body and her life.
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When did you start to become aware that you had an unhealthy relationship with food?
I knew that it wasn’t normal when I was 17, but it felt like a secret and as if it gave me some kind of control, so I didn’t see it as an issue then. I think that when you start off controlling your food you feel you are the one in control, but eventually it ends up being the thing that is controlling you.
I kept it a secret as part of the control thing, but also because I knew that if my mum found out she would be really upset. So I knew that it wasn’t right, but at the same time I wanted to keep doing it.
How did it later escalate so that you finally realised it was an issue?
I think it was when I was in the soap opera, as I then lived by myself. I found myself getting up in the middle of the night to go and buy loads of junk food to binge on, which would cause me to lock myself away, because I felt so ashamed of what I had eaten and it started to really feel like an addiction.
Then the bingeing turned into bulimia, which I was in denial over. In the end my mum found out so she took me to see a hypnotherapist and spent a lot of money on this. Because I felt that it should have worked I pretended for a long time that it had, but in reality I was still doing it. But then I had to keep it even more of a secret, so I kidded myself that I was in control of it and that I was fixing it. Another year would pass and I still hadn’t fixed it – it was still there.
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