Alix Earle admits she got didn\u2019t get reaction she expected from eating disorder YouTube: The Kelly Clarkson ShowInfluencer Alix Earle says she got the \u2018opposite\u2019 reaction from what she expected after opening up about her eating disorder in a tearful podcast in October. Alix Earle is a prominent influencer, boasting 6 million followers on TikTok and 3 million on Instagram. Although she\u2019s best known for her humorous storytime videos and \u2018get ready with me\u2019 clips, Earle caught the internet\u2019s attention for a totally different reason in October 2023 during an episode of her podcast, \u2018Hot Mess with Alix Earle.\u2019 During the podcast, Earle opened up about her \u201ctoxic\u201d eating disorder, which she says started in high school. Due to her ED, Earle severely restricted her food intake and began purging any time she needed to eat a meal with others. It wasn\u2019t until she was in college that her friends helped her to change her mindset about food, saying she was \u201cso grateful\u201d to them for helping her recover. Earle\u2019s story touched the hearts of listeners all over the net, with many commenters saying they were thankful to the influencer for opening up about her experience with her eating disorder. Alix Earle got \u2018opposite\u2019 reaction she expected after revealing eating disorder However, Earle says she didn\u2019t expect all the positivity she received after talking about the subject. In a statement to Page Six, the influencer claimed she was fully expecting to get hit with tons of negative comments, instead. \u201cBefore ever opening up online, I was really scared that the response would be negative, and it\u2019s honestly just been the opposite,\u201d she told the outlet. \u201cIt\u2019s been super positive and I think I found a great community through it.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s also super therapeutic for me to find other people who struggle with the same issues, so I would encourage people to open up online about whatever it is they\u2019re going through,\u201d she added. \u201cBecause you never know how many people you\u2019re going to impact with that.\u201d Ultimately, Earle says it\u2019s up to the individual to decide how much they want to share with others on the internet, but says opening up about her struggles helped her _.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Alix Earle admits she got didn\u2019t get reaction she expected from eating disorder YouTube: The Kelly Clarkson ShowInfluencer Alix Earle says she got the \u2018opposite\u2019 reaction from what she expected after opening up about her eating disorder in a tearful podcast in October. Alix Earle is a prominent influencer, boasting 6 million followers on TikTok […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}