'Euphoria' star Chloe Cherry developed an eating disorder while working in adult films.
Chloe Cherry revealed a 'fat' comment by an agent led to her eating disorder
The 24-year-old actress - who starred in more than 200 X-rated films before landing the role of heroin addict Faye in the hit HBO Max teen drama - drastically cut back her daily calorie intake to just 200 a day after an agent told her she was "fat" and that "the fastest way to lose weight is by not eating."
Speaking on the 'Call Her Daddy' podcast, Chloe, who was 18 at the time, recalled: “It all started when this agent that I had when I was in [adult entertainment] said to my face that I was fat.
“He said, ‘Everyone says that you’re fat and the fastest way to lose weight is by not eating.’ He said that to me and I was like, ‘What the f***.’
"It just turned into an eating disorder cause I was so young at the time. He said that to me when I was 18, and it was so f****** freaky because no one in my whole life had ever said that I was fat and then it just became an obsession.”
Chloe adopted a vegan diet and would sometimes only consume a single green juice all day.
And the breakout star admitted talking to her friends about her eating habits helped her.
She said: “To get out of it really took a lot of me opening up to all my friends.
“Opening up about it suddenly made it all come down."
In June 2020, Chloe ditched her vegan diet and stopped calorie counting - and she's never felt better about her body.
She added: “I was just miserable and not treating my body well, and now that I don’t count a single calorie and literally just eat anything I want and do anything I want, my body actually looks better than it ever has my entire f****** life.
"I do not restrict my diet whatsoever. And that’s why I think a lot of people don’t think that I went through an eating disorder because I’m skinnier now than I was even though I was starving myself then.
“Either I can decide to feel really good about myself or no one else will."