Kelsea Ballerini Shares Her Battle With Eating Disorder
These days, Kelsea Ballerini is to love herself as she means it.
The 28-year-old country star shares her past body image issues in a new book of poems Feel it your way, shared that she battled an eating disorder for years before seeking help at the age of 18. In a poem titled “Kangaroo,” Ballerini recalls how a boy from childhood. nicknamed her after the marsupial for her “small belly and legs.” “
Ballerini, who says she took diet pills and struggled with bulimia as a child, looks back on how far she’s come since that difficult time. Singer tells Everyone in a new interview, “It’s a journey and it never ends.”
That lesson certainly holds true for Ballerini after a Today in 2015, when she “saw an article that popped up and said: ‘Ballerini debuts a broken heart’.”
She recalls, “I went back to my 12-year-old version but thought: Either you’re going to be triggered by this all the time, or you’re going to get to a point where you’re fine enough to see through it.”