Gretchen Rossi’s ‘Battle With Bulimia’
November 17th, 2009 by Rian | Filed under Misc Celebs & Diet News, Tabloids & Magazines.
According to the latest issue of In Touch Weekly, The Real Housewives of Orange County star Gretchen Rossi once suffered from bulimia. She shares some of her current diet and exercise info in the article and only briefly touches on the actual eating disorder, which apparently didn’t last very long.
Here’s some highlights:
Q: When did you problems with food begin?
A: I was a lot heavier back in high school and in college. I wasn’t even fat, I was only 130 pounds. But compared to what I look like now at 115 pounds, I thought I looked fat.Q: When did you realize you had a problem?
A: Pretty quickly. I realized how much harm binging and purging could do to my body. It burned my esophagus, throat and nose, and I eventually saw my skin discolor. My hair began to thin out. I was dehydrated and felt lethargic. I even became anemic at one point. I realized the stress to my body could be life-threatening. It wasn’t worth it.Q: How do you stay in shape?
A: Everything is about moderation. I’m not obsessed about how I look. I think I’m healthy and fit because I feel healthy and fit on the inside. And it [comes through] the outside.Q: What is your diet like?
A: I don’t count calories or cut sugar out. I have a little taste of everything, then, for the next three days, I’ll be really careful.
Hmm… yet another reality-TV personality coming out about an eating disorder in a tabloid magazine… who is next?
Source: In Touch Weekly, Nov 23rd 2009 issue
Tags: bulimia, eating disorder, gretchen rossi, reality tv, tabloid
How tall is she?she has a fabulous figure, but looks quite tall maybe 5′8? at 115 yes she is thin!
I like her alot. I think she is super cute with a super cute figure.
She didn’t answer the first question. Did her problem begin in high school or not? College or not? Sounds like an evasive answer.
AND she realized “pretty quickly”, yet hair beginning to thin out is not a quick process.
FINALLY “I’m not obsessed about how I look” RFLMAO! No f&@C#ing way, ever. That is a lie.
Doesn’t ring true.
If she’s 5′8 then she would’ve been thin at 130 lbs.
I don’t believe her
1) She didn’t answer the first question. Was it high school? College? Evasive answer.
2) She realized “pretty quickly”, but hair thinning does not happen quick. One can be anemic for another medical reason. A burning esophagus happens the first time.
3) The biggest lie of all “I’m not obsessed about my looks” Ha!
Judging from her stated weight and the picture, she must be around 5′5″ or shorter. She looks in good shape but is not skinny.
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What kind of diet advice is that?
So, she doesn’t have an eating disorder anymore, but if she has a “taste” of something bad she restricts for the next 3 DAYS?!
I think that’s terrible advice.
Why do so many people feel the need to go public about their eating disorders. To help other people going through the same thing? No it’s just for attention, I don’t even know who that lady is.
@jade, i was going to say the same, who is she? she is not even on the main picture.
Just another celeb trying to get attention…
ha why you all think its for attention? some people need to just get it out and this is the way to do it for them considering they probably got hella shit for it from everyone. you all say its probably a publicity stunt and ohh which celeb is next? well get use to it, considering a ton of celebritys are trying to stay thin somehow, and a ton of people in hollywood are doing it the easy way, which ends up being the harder way.
By saying her weights she’s going to make people who do weigh that much feel bad! Fair enough if she wanted to raise the cause of bulimia but it sounds like she’s just fame-whoring to me!
I didn’t know who this woman was so I googled her…
WOW! What an attention whore!
Honestly, she is the same age as me and I’d be embarrased if I were her. Some of those pics were down right slutty.
My opinion is she is just full of BS to get more attention and that she STILL has issues with eating. Obviously.
Q: What is your diet like?
A: I don’t count calories or cut sugar out. I have a little taste of everything, then, for the next three days, I’ll be really careful.
Wow! That is really good advice.
I’ll be glad when celebrities move on to some other way of staying relevant like perhaps having talent or something. Wouldn’t that be great?
i love how celebrities make it sound like getting over an eating disorder is as easy as getting over a cold. also, horrible advice.
This chick makes me embarassed to admit that I live in OC.
I don’t know who she is either! I don’t think 130 is thin at 5′8″ – it isn’t fat but it is far from thin.
I kno uthink alot of people say it to be in the “ed celeb gang” but sad fact is that a lot of people come out about it because a lot of people have it.
Since when is having an eating disorder something to be proud of to get attention?? Pathetic!! She is trying to make it “cool” or interesting to get attention when it is a disease. Very irresponsible!
If she had bulimia I feel sorry for her. It’s a horrible thing to deal with and can cause major damage to your body and psyche. Hope she is coping better now.
So she eats whatever she wants one day, and then the next 3 days shes “careful”. Which probly means she doesnt eat anything. Oh cool! The new “4 day diet”!!! i guess whatever works for you….
She’s right about not being fat at 5′8 and 130. I mean, Rihanna is 5′8 and says she’s 133 for Pete’s sake. I mean what was she? A size 4-6. She must be pretty thin now then.
She should have stuck with a sausage diet!
At 5′8, 130 lbs would give her a BMI of 19.8. You are considered underweight at a BMI of 18.5 or lower. At 115 lbs she is now considered unhealthy and underweight at a BMI of 17.5. I think that makes it pretty clear that you are thin at 130 lbs when you are 5′8. Unless you think the term thin only applies to unhealthy women.
Becks you are totally right. Especially if you have some muscle, 130 is thin for 5′8. Not scary thin, just perfect.
If she is actually 5′8 (not sure who decided that she is), then she is probably still more than 115 now, looks like 120-125 to me.
I don’t think she looks 5′8″, more like 5′6″.
Yeah…what great diet advice…not.
sorry about the double post. The first one disappeared into cyberair, I thought because I swore. lol
C’mon, do you really think she weighs 115?? These people always lie about their weight/diet/dress size, etc.
She’s not even close to 5′8. She’s pretty short if you’ve watched the show.
yawn
please..give me a break…real eating disorders take YEARS to recover from.
Blech. I am so tired of pseudo-celebs outing their EDs to give themselves another three minutes of stardom. I don’t believe her regarding the severity of it, for the reasons Miss Jessie pointed out.
I’m sorry for her if she did suffer from bulimia, but my guess is she tried it a handful of times and is now looking for a way to capitalize on it.
She is so proud of herself: she used to have bulimia and now she has anorexia.
She can’t be very tall. I’m 115 lbs and 5′5 1/2 and I don’t think I’m quite as large as her.
I definitely don’t think she weighs 115! I looked at some pictures of her and I would say she still weights 130 or more!!!
I thought this site had nothing to do with eating disorders.
is this that lady that everyone, and i do mean everyone hates and calls a liar on the orange county desparate housewives show? i believe it is, over the weekend i was on the bike, and i was watching tv, more like scaning the channels and i ended up watching her in WORKOUT GEAR (im serious!) and she is super tiny and tall.. anyhow everyone on the show thinks she is a slut, a liar, and a conniving woman, its funny how we all seem to agree on the lying part and we dont even know this lady!!!
anyhow good show, i liked the part where the one housewife goes to italy with her daughter ( who is super chubby) and orders italian food– or tries to—and butchers the language– well she doesnt even try to speak italian, they are so rude and obnoxious, i dont know why i watch~!!!! ha.
On the show, she wears super high heels. So I’m gonna say she’s under 5′6″.
i watch the show and i think she’s kinda funny, i don’t think she’s that pretty but her body is amazing! you have to watch the show to know.. if she’s 115 i’d say she’s 5′6, and i actually would have thought she weighed less than that and as for her eating disorder…i thhink alot of women go through “issues” when they’re transitioning through adulthood and can have ‘disorderded eating’ and it doesn’t always last long or develop into a full blown eating disorder
5′5″ and 125.
I wanna know…do the tabloids approach these “celebs” about their past eating disorders or do they all just stand in a huge crowd raising their hands and jumping saying “ooo pick me pick me! i once ate only bananas for a week, then got counseling!” “no pick me pick me! i used to weigh 125 now i have a healthy lifestyle of binging then starving now im down to a healthy 105!” PLEASEEEE! i reallll ED i respect, but come on
She’s probably 5′5” 115.
Can’t believe she’s only 31 – she looks well into her 40’s.
@ kitkat
LMAO. The exact I was envisioning in my head. lol.
If she did have bulimia im glad shes better, it can b a horrible disease. But i wish people would learn the difference between disordered eating and an eating disorder. If she only had this weird eating “for a while” it was probably just disordered eating that thankfully didnt develop into a full blown eating disorder that usually take alot of time and hard work to get over. Also usually people with serious eating disorders never mention thier “sick” weight or current weights becuase they know how harmful those numbers can be to other sick girls.
Either way she lied about her weight and she is pretty to me.
If she is 115, I put her at 5′6″. 115 at 5′8″ is really very thin (and almost getting into one end of runway model shape)…and she has some muscle (in her arms at least) which is going to make her heavier than some at that height/weight. Aside form all of that, yea if her hair was falling out, she messed up her blood chemistry and her skin turned odd colors, I don’t think she realized her issues right off the bat.
I like gretchen! She isn’t a liar, only Tamra is as she is jealous and tries to slander her on the show every chance she gets. No one can judge the ED of another, bulimia is highly dangerous to the system and a person can die from it no matter how long or how short they have been doing it!
Anyone who says it’s not an ED needs to shut up! It is that conception that only longtime ana sufferers have a problem that leads to the unnecessary illnesses and deaths of many women!!!!!
She obviously wasn’t fat before, and she hasn’t gone back to that weight and stayed in the thin range… telling someone they don’t have something can actually make the problem WORSE!
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Nice post & nice blog. I love both.
Becks & Melissa 100% AGREE.
She’s definitely NOT 5′ 8″, she’s looks fairly short to me…around 5 5″ or 5 4″. I do actually think 130 and 5 8 can be thin, b/c I used to wear a size 2 at that weight, but I was a hardcore athlete at the time and 12% body fat so it’s a little different scale I guess.
she just said she’s 5′3″-5′4″ on bravo season recap…