Billy Bush (L) and Tara Reid.Photo:John Lamparski/Getty, Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty
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ExtrahostBilly Bushexpressed concern toTara Reidthat she appears “too skinny” — right after she crushed rumors of her having an eating disorder.
Bush replied: “I think you look a little too skinny…"
But Reid she had always been this way, despite people accusing her of disordered eating. “I eat all the time," she said.
“That’s not a problem for me. So they make up problems that don’t even exist, and then one person rolls on it and then everyone rides on it…It’s been going on for years, but there’s no eating disorder. I never had one.”
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Reid then said that perhaps her current appearance is due to getting older and being a little fragile, adding, “That’s what happens to older ladies.”
Reid had recently shut down eating disorder rumors in a conversation with theLos Angeles Inquisitor. She noted “If we were overweight then they can’t say anything because that’s bullying. But it’s the same thing if you’re skinny. That’s still bullying too.”
She further clarified “I have no anorexia and never have, and I definitely don’t have any bulimia. I’m terrified of throwing up, so that’s not gonna happen. And I love food too much.”
“So anyone that says I’m anorexic or bulimic, they’re wrong,” Reid added. “So stop it. Leave me alone. Pick on me again on something else, but not on those two things. It’s not right.”
“I am not too skinny, I have a high metabolism,” she told her followers at the time. “Anyone with a high metabolism understands it’s impossible to gain weight. All I do is eat. To everyone who wrote something nice and stuck up for me, I love you! And keep spreading that love, it is the only thing that will save this world.”
Reid toldPage Sixin 2021 that she has always been thin. “So these stories are kind of crazy because it’s like there’s nothing that has changed for forever,” she said at the time.
“This is who I am, this is what I am, this is what I’m [aspiring] to be,” she added.
If you or someone you know is struggling with an eating disorder, please go toNationalEatingDisorders.org.
source: people.com
