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Pregnancy can be challenging for many women as they watch their bodies change and grow. For women with a history of disordered eating, those challenges are sometimes amplified during those physically and emotionally-demanding months.
That was the case for Katharine McPhee Foster.
The actress, who recently welcomed a son with husband David Foster, appeared on Dr. Berlin’s Informed Pregnancy Podcast on March 1, just days before her due date, and opened up about her relapse with food issues during pregnancy.
“The biggest challenge for me through the pregnancy was really the body issue stuff just suddenly came up in a way that hadn’t been present in a long time,” she said.
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In many ways it s been disastrous : COVID pandemic provides perfect storm for Americans with eating disorders By Grace Segers
March 5, 2021 / 9:00 AM / CBS News
Like many essential employees, Jessica, a grocery worker and graduate student in Atlanta, has been extremely overworked during the coronavirus pandemic. Overwhelmed by stress, she s fallen back into bad habits to cope.
Jessica, who is being identified by her first name only to preserve her anonymity, has struggled with bulimia for over a decade. I m bingeing just so I don t snap like a stressed-out rubber band. I know I can t purge, because that s unhealthy, Jessica said. So I find myself halfway through this cycle I ve spent years trying to break.