Portia de Rossi, an actress, has revealed some details explaining her reasons on personal struggles she went through towards overcoming anorexia as well as bullemia. This was in a new book entitled “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”.

She writes in the book that at one time she made herself consume about 300 calories online in 24 hours, leading her total body weight to stick at 82 pounds.

the actress, Australian born and legally married to Ellen DeGeneres, a talk show renown host, expressed that her worst moment saw her consuming calories that were equal to just a single coffee latte in a day.

In an interview in Good Morning America, she confirmed that her diet was only 300 calories. She said that since her twelfth birthday she was in the habit of starving herself everyday followed by a binge immediately her job was completed. It was the kind of diet she went back to anytime the need to lose weight was there.

Portia de Rossi expressed that the relationship she had with Ellen DeGeneres had transformed her entire life, helping her in overcoming her intricate eating disorders.

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