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In a new and incredibly candid interview, Sophie Turner has discussed her private battle with an eating disorder when she was catapulted to stardom after Game of Thrones. She revealed to ELLE UK that being thrust into the public eye caused her to develop a “love-hate” relationship with social media and subsequently, negatively impacted her mental health.
“I wish I’d never got myself involved with it in the first place,” Turner told the publication. “I look at the comments on Instagram and think, Oh, f*ck. Everyone thinks this about me. It would completely consume me.”
Speaking on the best advice she has ever received, the 26-year-old revealed having a live-in therapist, who ensured she was continuing healthy eating habits. “For a long time, I was quite sick with an eating disorder and I had a companion. I don’t know if you know what a companion is? It’s a live-in therapist…”
She continued, “One night, I was playing over and over in my mind a comment I’d seen on Instagram. I was like, “I’m so fat, I’m so undesirable,” and spinning out. She said to me, “You know, no one actually cares. I know you think this, but nobody else is thinking it. You’re not that important.’ That was the best thing anyone could have told me.”
It’s not the first time the actress has spoken about her eating disorder. In a 2019 interview she believed that meeting now-husband Joe Jonas, “saved my life”. The pair met in 2016 during a period of Turning being “mentally unwell”. “He was, like, ‘I can’t be with you until you love yourself, I can’t see you love me more than you love yourself,'” she told Sunday Times Magazine.
Turner is now expecting her second child with Jonas after giving birth to a baby girl, Willow, in 2020. She is due to appear in the chilling true-crime drama series, The Staircase, this month.
