Despite a cover of US Magazine professing that The Hills made her bulimic, Stephanie Pratt is now denying the allegation that it was the show’s fault. Turns out the reality starlet had been battling the disorder long before ever appearing on MTV.
” ‘The Hills’ did not make me bulimic,” she told MTV News Wednesday night. “It was my own issues with self-esteem, and if anything, my life on ‘The Hills’ has only helped me get healthy, ’cause I know how lucky I am to have this job and to have the chance to be a role model.”
Steph says she came public with her eating disorder to help other families who might have children struggling and not even know it.
“My mom and dad were very hands-on parents,” Pratt said. “They were never on vacations or anything like that, and I did everything right under their noses — I did drugs, I threw up my food — in the same house as them. And for them to never see that, my mom was just like, ‘What did I do wrong?’
“If she had known the signs of what to look for, I could have been helped a lot earlier,” she continued. “I’m so thankful I got professional help and I’m healthy now, but I just really wanted to do this to help all of those moms to see those signs in their daughters. [Bulimia is] such an ugly, ugly word. I wish I could have danced around it and said I had eating issues, but this isn’t an article for me to shine.”
I think it’s very noble of her to come out with a secret that she could easily be ashamed of, but she wants to help others so they don’t make the same mistakes (though I pray to God she’s not a role model to anyone)… Or she just wants publicity.
Either way, you look great now, Stephanie, so be proud of overcoming such an ugly disease.
[image: wenn.com]
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