{"id":34194,"date":"2010-11-02T09:21:25","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T14:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=34194"},"modified":"2011-12-27T15:50:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T20:50:09","slug":"portia-de-rossi-opens-up-about-her-eating-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/11\/portia-de-rossi-opens-up-about-her-eating-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Portia de Rossi Opens Up About Her Eating Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Portia de Rossi on Oprah\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/11\/portia-de-rossi-opens-up-about-her-eating-disorder\/\" target=\"_self\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-34196\" title=\"Portia\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Portia.jpg\" alt=\"Portia de Rossi on Oprah\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a>Portia de Rossi discussed her eating disorder on <a title=\"Portia de Rossi on Oprah\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/portia-de-rossi-on-the-oprah-show\/\" target=\"_self\">Oprah<\/a> yesterday, admitting that she once restricted herself to as little as 300 calories per day. The interview comes in hand with the release of de Rossi&#8217;s new book about her struggles with <a title=\"What is Anorexia?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/what-is-anorexia\/\" target=\"_self\">anorexia<\/a> and <a title=\"What is Bulimia?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/what-is-bulimia\/\" target=\"_self\">bulimia<\/a>, <em><a title=\"Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1439177783?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=dir_blog-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1439177783\" target=\"_blank\">Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t that I was proud of it, but it was certainly a recognition of my self-control,&#8221; the actress told Oprah. &#8220;I definitely had some amazing will-power to get down to 82 pounds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->De Rossi said she felt her eating disorder was necessary to maintain a thin look for the good of her career. &#8220;It really, really killed me.&#8221; She even got to the point where she didn&#8217;t feel ashamed of her eating disorder. De Rossi said that finding unconditional love with her partner Ellen DeGeneres, and helped her find the self-acceptance to return to a healthy lifestyle. &#8220;Love really does heal you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1439177783?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=dir_blog-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1439177783\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nPick up a copy of <em>Unbearable Lightness<\/em> here. <\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/slideshows\/weight-loss-show-stoppers-on-oprah\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/media\/slideshow_images\/weight-loss-show-stoppers-on-oprah\/oprahs-weight-loss-show-stoppers.jpg\" alt=\"View Weight Loss Show Stoppers on Oprah Slideshow\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portia de Rossi discussed her eating disorder on Oprah yesterday, admitting that she once restricted herself to as little as 300 calories per day. The interview comes in hand with the release of de Rossi&#8217;s new book about her struggles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/11\/portia-de-rossi-opens-up-about-her-eating-disorder\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695],"tags":[333,971,532,3010],"class_list":["post-34194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-anorexia","tag-eating-disorders","tag-oprah-winfrey","tag-portia-de-rossi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34194"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34214,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34194\/revisions\/34214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}