Helen Flanagan has revealed she has only begun eating bread after suffering from an eating disorder since she was 16.
The actress, 34, began her career on the nation’s televisions at just ten years old where she starred as Rosie Webster on Coronation Street for twelve years.
She then returned to the show for a brief stint in 2017 for a year.
Speaking on The Mail’s The Life of Bryony podcast, she said: ‘When I was about 16, I am naturally slim, but I was obsessed with being seven stone.
‘I was around a lot of actresses and models and they were all doing the photo shoots. I just wanted to be like them. I hardly ate anything.’
Helen said the school nurse as well as Coronation Street producers would call her mum up at the time.
‘I remember kind of like school nurse being involved and like Coronation Street,’ she said.
‘They would call my mum up, and she was like, ‘Hellen, you’ll lose your job’
‘And I think it was just a sense of control.’
She said she now tries to eat healthily because of her daughter, but still struggles.
‘I think if you have an eating disorder, it always stays with you,’ she said.
‘If I’m really honest, I think some of my eating habits probably aren’t the best, but I’m definitely healthy because I’m aware of my daughter.
‘So I think having Matilda for me is a really good, like, I need to be a good example because it, I would hate for her to have an eating disorder because it’s f*****g miserable.
In the latest episode, Helen also revealed she has only begun eating bread after suffering from an eating disorder since she was 16
The actress began her career on the nation’s televisions at just ten years old where she starred as Rosie Webster on Coronation Street for twelve years
‘I’ve just started to eat bread again because I just wouldn’t touch it.
‘When I got into this thing where, like, me and my ex-fiancé split up, that I just suddenly was like, I’m not touching bread and I’m not touching pasta.
‘I get these, like, weird little quirks that I do with my food.’
The TV personality shares Matilda, nine, Delilah, six, and Charlie, three with ex-fiancé and Bristol Rovers player Scott Sinclair.
Helen split from fiancé Scott in October 2022 after 13 years together, four of which they were engaged.
She is now in a relationship with construction firm boss Robbie Talbot, 44.
Because I’ve got a really lovely boyfriend now and I’m really happy,’ she said.
‘I’m like, actually, this is probably a bit weird. Like, I should probably just start not doing that.’
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