Billie has revealed, in her new autobiography that she has battled with the slimming disease Anorexia for years. Even admitting that she hates to look at photos of herself to this day. She also reveals that she almost committed suicide in a hotel in Chicago:
Doctor Who star Billie Piper told last night how she battled slimmers' disease anorexia.
Billie, who was 24 on Friday, said she stopped eating for days at a time, living on Diet Coke and cigarettes. And she became addicted to laxatives.
Between the age of 16 and 17 she was so thin she stopped menstruating.
Billie said: "I didn't feel qualified or ready to talk about it until I was really, really well this year."
She said that when she signed a £1m recording contract at the age of 15, she lived in fear of not reaching Number One and not hitting a note.
And while alone in a hotel in Chicago in 1999 she came close to suicide.
But though her marriage to Chris Evans failed, she said it was instrumental in her recovery from anorexia: "I couldn't have not eaten when I started seeing Chris. It's impossible not to enjoy life with him."
When she split up with Chris her anorexia returned for four months.
But now she doesn't fear a relapse and added: "I go for days without worrying about food."
Source: The Sunday Mirror
Former Dr Who girl Billie Piper has admitted she nearly killed herself when she was 16. The ex-wife of DJ Chris Evans says she was in Chicago soon after topping the British charts when she thought about swallowing a bottle of pills. Billie, now 24, says she considered suicide because of pressure on her to succeed and her anorexia slimming obsession. But in stead she phoned her parents and begged to come home. In her new autobiography Billie says: "I didn't feel qualified or ready to talk about it until I was really, really well this year. "I still hate looking at pictures of myself.
Source: The People."