Zayn Malik reveals he had hidden EATING DISORDER while in One D
Having spoken openly about his issues with anxiety, Zayn Malik has now revealed he suffered from an eating disorder while he was part of One Direction.
In his new self-titled autobiography, the singer admitted to not eating for days at a time in a possible bid to feel some sense of control over his life.
As reported by The Sun, the 23-year-old wrote: “When I look back at images of myself from around November 2014, before the final tour, I can see how ill I was.”
“Something I’ve never talked about in public before, but which I have come to terms with since leaving the band, is that I was suffering from an eating disorder.”
“It wasn’t as though I had any concerns about my weight or anything like that,” he continued. “I’d just go for days – sometimes two or three days straight – without eating anything at all. It got quite serious, although at the time I didn’t recognise it for what it was.”
“I think it was about control,” confessed Zayn. “I didn’t feel like I had control over anything else in my life, but food was something I could control, so I did.”
“I had lost so much weight I had become ill. The workload and the pace of life on the road put together with the pressures and strains of everything going on within the band had badly affected my eating habits.”
Despite his book’s claims, on Friday Zayn told The Associated Press that he was never officially diagnosed with an eating disorder.
He also suggested that he now has a better relationship with food, saying he is “a bit older and a bit more wiser (sic)”.
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