The ‘Riverdale’ star says she struggled with the eating disorder in 2022. Lili Reinhart has revealed that she developed an eating disorder while filming Riverdale, which ended in 2023 after seven seasons. The 28-year-old actor recently reflected on filming the sixth season of the hit CW program in 2022. She shared that while she was struggling with Crohn’s (an autoimmune disease), she also had an eating disorder.
“I wish there were more average-sized arms represented in mainstream media for women,” she wrote on X/Twitter in September 2023. “My body dysmorphia has been going crazy because I feel like my arms need to be half the size they are currently?”.
“We’ve glamorized these skinny arms that, for most of us, can only be achieved if you’re a literal adolescent,” she added. “I truly wonder how anyone survives or gets through this life without having severe BD. Maybe it’s a cruel amplified version in combination with my OCD, but damn. The amount of time I’ve wasted thinking about my arms in the last few months is insane.”.
Reinhart said that she wanted to “throw [her] own thoughts out there” in order to help other women realize that they aren’t the only ones to feel this way. “The third night I’m there, I developed symptoms of a UTI,” she said. “I’m like, ‘I’ve had UTIs before. I’m a woman. We all know how it feels.’” After a urinalysis, a “slight infection” was detected and the actor was sent home with antibiotics. However, she was forced to make two more hospital visits after she still felt the urgency to pee.
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