Comedian Whitney Cummings is getting serious about her years-long struggle with an eating disorder.
In her newly-released first memoir, I’m Fine…And Other Lies, the co-creator of CBS’ “2 Broke Girls” admits that she “became irrationally terrified of fat” between the ages of 14 and 18.
“It was as if I were looking in a funhouse mirror that makes your hips comically large. I literally could not see myself how others did,” she writes.
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A joking Cummings says that she was “alarmingly thin… I looked like the shadow of Jared Leto,” and at her worst, her hair began falling out.
Her diet consisted of “rice cakes, apples and nonfat yogurt,” she says in the book.
Upon moving to Los Angeles, a 19-year-old Cummings began binge-eating, and often found herself covered in multiple food wrappers after eating in her sleep. “Sometimes I was even sticky from whatever weird sauce I blindly poured down my throat,” she continues.
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With the help of friends and family, Cummings was able to overcome the disorder, which she says was the result of low self-esteem. These days, however, the star admits her relationship with food remains strained, but prefers to maintain a positive attitude. “The other good news about my overcoming an eating disorder and putting some weight on is that it makes you look about 10 years younger,” Cummings writes. “People keep asking me if I’ve gotten a face-lift and I’m like, ‘Nope, just got that extra side of guac.’”
