Julie Bowen He confessed that he suffered from an eating disorder when he was a teenager.
of modern family Alum, 52, was a guest on Thursday’s airing tamron hall show and reflected on what she believed caused the condition.
“I have three sons and it’s funny because they’re all so different,” she told the Emmy-winning talk show host. You see him trying to get an A+ by coloring inside the lines all the time.”
Bowen has a 15-year-old son, Oliver, and 13-year-old twin sons, John and Gustav. her ex-husband Scott Phillips.
She continued, “And I think [as a teen] I interpreted it as a mess, a mistake, some sort of butt or fat sticking out of the top of my jeans. [as] Symbols you couldn’t contain yourself. Too much of you, and that’s good, meant staying inside the lines, both literally and figuratively. ”
“And that’s my attitude. It’s tight,” she explained.
At the time, she was “suffering” with the changes and hormones that come with puberty, and “didn’t like the feeling of the changes,” she said.
Bowen added that while her sons are “not afraid” of body changes, her life was very different when she was younger.
When she was growing up she said Her body says, “I don’t have time for that.” So I think it was a coping mechanism. ”
Also, during her appearance, she recalled getting body-shamed months after giving birth to twins.
“I was lucky to get a little bit of fame and recognition before everyone always had a cell phone and a camera in their pocket,” she told Hall. was filming in Hawaii modern familyLess than a year later, I still liked baby gunk.
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At the time, she was also trying to breastfeed after having John and Gustav nine months earlier.
“I was breastfeeding while working, and at the time my husband and I put on bikinis and jumped into the ocean. There were paparazzi like I was inside, like, ‘What’s wrong with her? People go around my belly and my boobs, [saying]”This is nasty.”
Bowen added: [the paparazzi] I didn’t know my body did something amazing..”
If you or someone you know is battling an eating disorder, contact the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) at 1-800-931-2237 or National Eating Disorders.org.
