Lily Collins opens up about her eating disorders

During an interview with IMDb Studio, the actress said that the character she plays in her upcoming drama, To the Bone, is very close to her heart as she too, like her character in the film, suffered from eating disorders as a teenager. “This was definitely a more dramatic role for me. I suffered with eating disorders when I was a teenager as well,” she said, and added, “I wrote a book last year and I wrote a chapter on my experiences a week before I got Marti’s (the director’s) script and it was like the universe was kind of putting these things in my sphere to help me face, kind of dead on, a fear that I used to have and a way to explain it as someone who’s gone through it and to open up a topic that is considered quite taboo with young people nowadays, male, female, and to really start a conversation.”

Lily had to lose a lot of weight for the role, but it was done safely under the guidance of a nutritionist. “I had to emotionally go there and it did require a different set of emotional skills, to kind of go back in time for me, with you know, my experiences,” she said.