Kate Beckinsale: 'I was anorexic'

**MaryJane** · June 22nd, 2006, 01:01 AM

KATE BECKINSALE suffered from a severe case of anorexia when she was younger, dropping down to a shocking 70 pounds (32 kilograms).

The star was so ill that she had to attend therapy sessions five days a week for four years to fight the deadly disease.

She explains, "I (wish) I had had a sensible magazine article to have read at the time from someone who was actually intelligent.

"I never really talked about that, actually. (But) when I was around 22 or 23, I decided I'd mention it because I decided I was one of the few people I knew who had that problem who didn't remain a freak about it."

The 32-year-old UNDERWORLD star insists that she has recovered from her eating disorder adding, "It's really more about fixing up your life instead of eating or not eating."

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**PurpleHaze** · June 22nd, 2006, 02:44 AM

32 kg?! oh god! how was she able to still walk and talk?!

**SVZ** · June 22nd, 2006, 02:47 AM

Originally Posted by PurpleHaze

32 kg?! oh god! how was she able to still walk and talk?!

obviously without her brain! she's never used it!

**moomies** · June 22nd, 2006, 02:54 AM

If this is true, she would've looked like one of those really gross and morbidly skeletal people...(no I'm not googling for an image).

I can imagine MK or Ashely Olson weighing that much but I think Kate is a lot taller?

**redcat** · June 22nd, 2006, 04:54 AM

I doubt this is true...

**Rogue** · June 22nd, 2006, 10:41 AM

It's well known how ill she was, she was practically committed from what I've heard, because her weight fell that low.

**Laneena** · June 22nd, 2006, 10:53 AM

It must suck to have an eating disorder.

**MsDark** · June 22nd, 2006, 12:31 PM

She sure is doing a lot of yapping lately. Maybe she's got a complex about being *that girl in that new Adam Sandler film* and would like it better if people were doing more buzzing about that new *Kate Beckinsdale/Adam Sandler film* instead.