Last updated: Friday, January 12, 2007

DONOVAN COMES CLEAN ABOUT CLUELESS EATING DISORDER

CLUELESS star ELIZA DONOVAN has gone public with her eating disorder battle that almost wrecked her big break in the cult teen movie.

The flame-haired actress, who played ditsy AMBER in the 1995 film, sat down with US TV counsellor DR KEITH ALBOM recently to tell all about her teenage anorexia.

She said, "When I got out of high school and I was living in Manhattan and I was really trying to succeed as an actress and trying to get an agent... I was very frustrated and I had no control of anything and I felt like I was over the hill at, like, 18.

"I was having lunch with a friend and I was expressing my frustration at everything and I literally pushed the plate away from me on the table.

"In doing that I felt this sense of power and, all of a sudden, I realised that I could do this thing (give up food)."

But her eating disorder took on a life of its own and almost ended her movie career. It landed her in hospital at the start of her big break on Clueless.

She added, "I thought I was fat. You have fittings before you start, and, by the time I wore the clothing, some of it was too big.

"I went into hospital during the middle of that film. It was a very difficult time."

Source: WENN

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