Taylor Swift is ready to be more open and honest with her fans than ever with the release of her upcoming Netflix documentary, Miss Americana, scheduled for January 31st. The singer, songwriter, and actress is ready to reveal the highs and lows of her career from her perspective, and she's starting with one that's sadly too relatable for women everywhere.
TW: This article contains depictions or discussions of eating disorders or eating disordered behavior and may be triggering to some readers.
In the film, through voiceover, Taylor says, "It’s not good for me to see pictures of myself every day," and then added that sometimes she would see "a picture of me where I feel like I looked like my tummy was too big, or… someone said that I looked pregnant … and that’ll just trigger me to just starve a little bit — just stop eating.”
Taylor also recalls always having an excuse ready for her size at that size double zero. She claims if anyone expressed concern about her weight, she'd reply, "‘What are you talking about? Of course I eat. …. I exercise a lot.’ And I did exercise a lot. But I wasn’t eating.”
“I remember how, when I was 18, that was the first time I was on the cover of a magazine,” she said, “and the headline was like ‘Pregnant at 18?’ And it was because I had worn something that made my lower stomach look not flat."
"Then I’d walk into a photo shoot and be in the dressing room and somebody who worked at a magazine would say, ‘Oh, wow, this is so amazing that you can fit into the sample sizes. Usually we have to make alterations to the dresses, but we can take them right off the runway and put them on you!’ And I looked at that as a pat on the head," she continued.
It takes a lot of courage for Taylor to speak so openly about the struggles she was facing, and it's sure to make a huge impact on her fans.
Miss Americana hits Netflix on January 31st.
h/t: Variety
