Jane Fonda opens with the fight with bulimia: "I led a secret life"

"I assumed that I would not live after 30 years," said the 85 -year -old star about her food disorder.


Jane Funda Is not afraid to open up to her personal life, and in a new interview, she shared the details of her experience with a food disorder, including the way it started, how much became serious and how she recovered. On the episode of February 1 of the podcast Calls him dad, Fonda said that at the start of her career, she felt like she was living "a secret life" suffering and hiding his bulimia .

The winner of Oscar twice was often frank on her health, in particular His diagnosis of cancer . Now she explains how her food disorder has become "a terrible dependence" that she thought was killing her before she was 30 years old. Read the rest to learn more about the history of the actor now 85 years old.

Read this then: See the 2 grandchildren of Jane Fonda, who follow her traces .

Fonda thought that she would die young.

Jane Fonda on
Spotify

In His interview with Call your daddy , Fonda was invited to look back over the twenties, because many women who age listen to the podcast.

"In my twenties, I started to be a film actor. I suffered from very, very bad bulimia. I led a secret life. I was very, very unhappy," she said. "I assumed that I would not live after 30 years - I am 85 years old. I don't understand. Well, I do it. I worked hard."

She continued: "I worked hard. I did not go out. I was not barely going out because I was unhappy, and I had this food disorder. And then I was also making films as I didn't like much. "She was deeply affected by the Vietnam War, which she said" changed [her] life ", because she became an anti-war activist in response.

She said Bulimia was "dependence".

Jane Fonda at a party in Los Angeles circa 1962
Earl Leaf / Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images

"It seems so innocent at first, so harmless," said Fonda for the development of bulimia. "" Why can't I have this ice cream and this cake, can I throw it away? What you do not realize is that it becomes a terrible dependence that takes over your life. "" 80 for Brady Star added: "Your day becomes organized to get food and eat it, which requires that you are alone and that no one knows what you are doing. This is a very lonely thing."

According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, " Bulimia is a food disorder . It is characterized by uncontrolled overeating episodes, called boulens. This is followed by a purge with methods such as vomiting or improper use of laxatives. "The site also notes that" many people with bulimia are not looking for help until they reach ages aged 30 or 50. ""

For more information on celebrities delivered directly in your reception box, Register for our daily newsletter .

She left alone.

Jane Fonda on
Spotify

Treatment of bulimia may include seeing a doctor, a therapist, nutritionist and / or a prescribed medication. Fonda said that when she decided to free herself from the disorder, she went "cold turkey" because she did not know how to get support. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"It happened at a point in the forties when I just thought, If I continue like that, I'll die "Said Fonda." I lived a very full life. I had children, I had a husband - I had two husbands. I was doing political work. I was doing all these things. My life was important, But I became less and less able to continue him. "

Fonda said that she "did not even know that there was a word for" balimie or support groups that she could join. "I just went to the cold turkey, and it was really difficult. But the fact is that the more you can put away between you and the last frenzy, the better. It becomes easier and easier."

She also said that she had been prescribed Prozac. "A large part of the cause was focused on anxiety, and Prozac helped me to face anxiety," said the laureate of an Oscar.

She also believes that her childhood played a role.

Jane Fonda speaking at Fire Drill Fridays in DC in December 2022
Philip Yabut / Shutterstock

In a room for Lenny Letter in 2016 ( via US Weekly ), Fonda said that adults in his life, including the father Henry Fonda , contributed to its development of a food disorder. "My father would send my mother-in-law to tell me to lose weight and wear longer skirts. One of my mother-in-law told me every way to change physically if I wanted a boyfriend," -she writes.

His mother, Frances Ford Seymour , died when she was only 12 years old, and Fonda treated it in an unhealthy way. "Like three of my father's five women, I developed a food disorder (probably to fill the void)," she said in the room.

In the 1980s, she played in popular training videos. Fonda said that his fitness career helped him to recover along. "I was training before starting the business, and that made me a feeling of control over my body," she said People in 2018.


Why does McDonald use red and yellow colors?
Why does McDonald use red and yellow colors?
70% of Grave Covid patients have damage here, studied
70% of Grave Covid patients have damage here, studied
The best sign of the zodiac with which to go out with, astrologers say
The best sign of the zodiac with which to go out with, astrologers say