Comfort Eating isn't just for you & me, many celebrities have admitted to it
Britney Spears
Britney has admitted several times to Comfort Eating, but is most well known for turning to food after she and Justin Timberlake split up and after the collapse of her parents' 30 year marriage. By bingeing on junk food she was said to have put on at least 10lbs. After revelations about their sex life to the press last year by Fred Durst, Limp Bizkit's frontman, Britney went back to Comfort Eating burgers. 'I just love to eat six or seven chocolate bars after I come off-stage,' said Britney, confessing to chocolate binges after performing at concerts.
Liza Minnelli
The daughter of screen legend , and star of the film Cabaret, Liza Minnelli was once a very slim actress. But ill health casued her to suffer a miserable time and she soon ballooned to 14 stone by Comfort Eating. Her fourth husband, David Gest, encouraged her to mend her Comfort Eating ways by putting her on to a 900 calories/day diet. However, since they have split, she is said to have gone back to Comfort Eating again.
Natasha Richardson
TV and film star, Natasha Richardson thought that she was fat as a teenager. 'I was never obese but I was overweight and I was always aware that as an actress you had to be slim,' she said. 'At 17 I weighed 11 and a half stone and I didn't lose it until I was 22. I loved food, I was very greedy and a lot of Comfort Eating went on.' She confesses that she can still put on weight through Comfort Eating (she is said to have put on 80lb during each of her two pregnancies) but can maintain her own weight levels.
Sophie Dahl
The daughter of author Roald Dahl, Sophie is most famous for being a "large" model and appearing nude in an advert for perfume. Although she is thin now, in 1997 she said: 'Fashion should be about making clothes that make all women look beautiful, not making women starve so they can fit in a size 8. I couldn't do it, I really couldn't be that size. I like eating too much.' Her childhood meant attending ten different schools around the world - before she was 13 years old. And before she reached 19 she had moved home 17 times. She puts the reason for her large size down to this lifestyle and Comfort Eating.
Vanessa Feltz
Comfort Eating is the true reason why Vanessa Feltz has a constant battle with weight, and as a TV and Radio personality her love of food is constantly hitting the headlines. As a child she was fat and she grew into a fat adult and admitted to Comfort Eating to raise her spirits when she felt down at heels. 'It's terribly sad because,' she said, 'as everyone probably knows, the crutch you use to kill the pain becomes the thing that causes the pain, and you eat because you're sad, then you're sad because you're fat, then you eat because you're sad you are fat and you get fatter and fatter.' She still has a struggle with her weight because of Comfort Eating and her relationship with food. 'I lost my weight through exercise and healthy eating, and I educate my daughters to go nowhere near faddy diets,' she said. However, she has returned to Comfort Eating recently as the weight has gone right back on again.
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Some Celebs Who Comfort Eat
Britney Spears
Liza Minnelli
Natasha Richardson
Sophie Dahl
Vanessa Feltz
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