She’s also flexed hersinging skills in all three installments of the comedy musical “Pitch Perfect.”
If you are struggling with an eating disorder, or know someone who is, help is available.
Soon, I was addicted to getting results."
Snow began restricting how much she ate, as well as limiting herself toonly eating “healthy” foods.
Maybe you eat just 500 calories a day.
It would be easy for me to say, ‘Why didn’t my parents notice?’
But I didn’t want them to.
I made sure to eat half a sandwich around my parents," the actress explained to People.
Still, the young actress continued aiming for lower and lower weight goals.
She also experienced anxiety and depression and began engaging in other forms of self-harm in addition to her anorexia.
I wanted to be like the girls I saw in fitness magazines so badly.
I thought that was the ideal of happiness .
And that’s when she knew she needed to make a change.
As she toldPeople, “That article saved my life.”
She was then diagnosed with anorexia, exercise bulimia, depression, and body dysmorphia.
Therapy was a crucial step, though it wasn’t an easy one.
“Being anorexic doesn’t necessarily mean you’re on the brink of death.
It can mean that you were once at a dangerous weight and that mentality is still with you.
[The therapists] make a run at teach you how to eat normally.
Gaining weight was scary.
But I felt better,” she recalled.
She also credited fellow actress Sophia Bush for helping her follow healthy workout and eating habits.
