Helen Hunt reveals how she overcame the pressure of Hollywood’s image

After years in the spotlight, Helen Hunt I learned to give up beauty standards that often overwhelm Hollywood.

During an interview with Flow spaceThe 61 -year -old actress opened the “misery and shame” that she often felt about her physical appearance early in her career and explained how she chose to overcome expectations.

“It was impossible not to absorb the way you were supposed to look,” said Hunt. “And (there was) a certain amount of misery and shame about not looking exactly in this way.”

Helen Hunt, 57, amazes in the black bikini while enjoying the beach day in Malibu

“I realized,” this may spoil your whole life. “I made a decision: I am not playing.

Hunt said her approach was influenced by the “only diet there is there,” a book written by spiritual leader Sondra Ray.

And she said: “What I took from him is, eat what you want and love every bite.”

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Hunt is not the only heart that spoke publicly about the conflicts she faced as a young star.

Earlier this year, Christina Applegit got an explicit On how to shoot photography as beautiful and exciting on “married … with children” she led to an eating disorder.

“This kind of things played things to me in myself, Boinsu-the 53-year-old, explained to the” chaotic “podcast while talking to the guest and” she got married … with children. ” Kitty Sajal.

“Yes, the very bad eating disorder started when I was doing this long -term offer,” she said.

Applegate said she had not told anyone about the turmoil at the time and was “very special on this topic.”

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“I was hiding in the bathrooms to eat, because I was so shy about eating so much that I was hiding on the planes, as when we went to London,” she said. “I remember the hiding there for dining like shrimp, because I was very afraid if anyone who eats me think they think I will try to get fat or something like that. I don’t know. I was in such a dark space.”

Sagal, who played the role of Applegate’s mother on the screen on the screen, which lasted from 1987 to 1997, told her that she “does not know all of this.”

Applegate replied, “Yes, I kept everything near the chest. There are a lot of things that occurred in the wings of my life that you did not know, comrades.”

Brie Stimson from Fox News Digital contributed to this post.