Sharna Burgess reveals past struggle with binging and complicated relationship with food

Sharna Burgess said she struggled with an eating disorder in the past, People reported.

On Sunday, Jan. 18, the Dancing with the Stars alum posted an Instagram Stories Q&A and replied to a follower, "I struggled with binging and restricting mostly," adding, "I had a super complicated relationship with food as a teen and [in] my 20s." She did not provide further details but wrote that her eating habits "changed" once she entered her 30s.

Burgess previously told Australia’s Good Health & Wellbeing in 2021 that she wrestled with body dysmorphia growing up, recalling being weighed at 15 and a pattern of bingeing one day and starving the next. She said joining DWTS in 2011 helped shift her perspective as she watched celebrities transform and come to love their bodies. The article included helpline information for The Alliance for Eating Disorders at 1-866-662-1235.

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