Alix Earle tears up revealing \u201ctoxic\u201d eating disorder YouTube: Hot Mess with Alix EarleSocial media star Alix Earle broke into tears while describing her recovery from a \u201ctoxic\u201d eating disorder that started during high school in the latest episode of her podcast. Alix Earle is a hugely popular social media star, boasting over 9 million followers combined across her TikTok and Instagram accounts. Earle is widely known for her relatable \u2018get ready with me\u2019 videos, where she\u2019ll opine on a particular topic or tell a story from her own life as she prepares for the day with makeup and skincare routines. While Earle\u2019s life certainly looks charming from the outside, the influencer opened up about a \u201ctoxic\u201d eating disorder she battled in high school and how she has recovered over the years. Alix Earle opens up on eating disorder in emotional podcast episode Earle opened up about her ED during an October 5 episode of her podcast, \u2018Hot Mess with Alix Earle.\u2019 In the episode, Earle claimed that her eating disorder first started in high school, when she\u2019d see her classmates \u201cpaying thousands of dollars\u201d to go on \u201cextreme diets.\u201d She said that watching her friends lose pound after pound normalized extreme dieting for her and sparked her difficult relationship with food. \u201cI just went down such a bad path with myself, with my body, with my image, and I started to have this sort of body dysmorphia,\u201d she said. \u201cI would look in the mirror and I would see someone way bigger than the person that I was.\u201d Eventually, Earle restricted her diet so much that she was only eating very small amounts of food and constantly looking for a toilet to throw up in wherever she dined. In the lead-up to her prom, Earle said that she completely avoided carbs, drinking only water and eating only ginger the day before the big event. Despite feeling light-headed, the influencer said she actually felt \u201ccontent\u201d because she was \u201cdoing something right\u201d with her diet. Earle began to tear up when describing the first time someone noticed her disorder. The influencer recalled a time when her mother had asked if she\u2019d thrown up after dinner, causing her to lie about her ED. \u201cI just lied straight to her face,\u201d she admitted. \u201cAnd I think that was the first time anyone had ever realized or asked me what was happening, and I started to then feel guilty about that.\u201d (Topic begins at 8:25) Luckily, Earle says that she began to recover from her disorder after getting into college, crediting her friend group for helping her realize how unhealthy her eating habits were. Overall, Earle shared her experience to help others struggling from eating disorders like she did, saying she\u2019s \u201cso grateful\u201d for her friends who aided in her recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Alix Earle tears up revealing \u201ctoxic\u201d eating disorder YouTube: Hot Mess with Alix EarleSocial media star Alix Earle broke into tears while describing her recovery from a \u201ctoxic\u201d eating disorder that started during high school in the latest episode of her podcast. Alix Earle is a hugely popular social media star, boasting over 9 million […]<\/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-43980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43980","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=43980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}