Zoe Kravitz may be considered one of Hollywood’s most beautiful “it” girls, but that doesn’t mean she’s always believed she’s as beautiful as the rest of the world believes she is. And in a new interview, Kravitz opens up about how her insecurity turned into a devastating eating disorder.
In her new cover story for Complex, Kravitz says that the Hollywood pressure to be beautiful led her to have an eating disorder years ago.
I had a really hard time when I was 16, 17, 18. I started with the eating disorder in high school … [I]ust [a hard time] loving myself … I think it was part of being a woman, and being surrounded by [fame]. I don’t think it was about the fame, but I think it was definitely about being around that world, seeing that world. I felt pressured,” she shared.
Although Kravitz eventually beat her eating disorder, she ended up having to deal with it all over again when she was cast as an anorexic woman in the 2014 film The Road Within. And according to the young star, her famous parents, Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet, were not happy about her taking the role.
“My parents got really scared for me to go back down that road,” she explained.
Kravizt admits that, as her parents feared, things did get out of hand and she began to lose herself in the role.
“It was f—ed up, man. You could see my rib cage. I was just trying to lose more weight for the film but I couldn’t see: You’re there. Stop. It was scary,” Kravitz said.
Thankfully, Kravitz was able to pull herself off the self-destructive path once again.
“I just felt it was different. I don’t know if a f—ing spirit came over me and said: ‘You have to stop,’ ” she shared.
Well, we’re glad that Kravitz was able to beat her eating disorder and move past her dark past. We hope that by sharing her story, she can help some other young girl feel dealing with an eating disorder to beat this disease as well.
But that’s not all that Kravitz talked about. See what she had to say about her insecurities as well as her rumored romance with Drake after the cut.
