Sarah Duchess of York opens up about her struggle with eating disorders
Sarah, Duchess of York, has opened up about struggling with her addiction to food and how she once wished to be bulimic.
The 57-year-old, who has been maliciously dubbed ‘The Duchess of Pork’, made the admission during a podcast with an ayurvedic doctor and naturopath Dr Vijay Murthy.
“To wish you could have a mental illness to that level is a very serious place to get to,” she said.
“I was a binge-eater. I never could get bulimia because I just didn’t have that mental state to go that far, but I always wished I could.”
"But that just shows you how dangerous and what place I got to. To wish you could have a mental illness to that level is a very serious place to get to.”
“My body and mind was in that place, but I couldn’t actually act out to make myself sick. I then grew and grew and grew.”
Sarah, Prince Andrew’s former wife, revealed that her comparison with her then sister-in-law Princess Diana, made her want to be as “beautiful and thin”.
"I tried, but of course it never went that way," she said.
The Duchess focused on her recovery during the interview and hoped to be a “human bridge” for others who suffer from eating disorders.
She also has plans to start a franchise of kindergartens to teach children around the world about healthy eating and develop a line of nutritional sauces.
Sarah, mother of Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice, is expected to be going through an exciting time as speculation increases of her daughter Eugenie’s engagement to her boyfriend of seven years, Jack Brooksbank.
Last year, Jack was invited to Queen Elizabeth’s Balmoral estate in Scotland, a positive sign that he’s been accepted by the royal family.