{"id":279888,"date":"2019-09-16T19:13:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T01:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1073777"},"modified":"2019-09-16T19:13:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T01:13:01","slug":"doctor-who-star-christopher-eccleston-reveals-lifelong-anorexia-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/doctor-who-star-christopher-eccleston-reveals-lifelong-anorexia-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who Star Christopher Eccleston Reveals ”Lifelong” Anorexia Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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British actor Christopher Eccleston<\/strong> has gone public with a very private struggle.<\/p>\n

In an excerpt from his upcoming autobiography, titled I Love the Bones of You <\/em>and published<\/a> by CNN, the Doctor Who<\/em> star detailed his experience as a “lifelong anorexic and dysmorphic.” <\/p>\n

“I always thought of it as a filthy secret, because I’m northern, because I’m male and because I’m working class,” he wrote. <\/p>\n

Eccleston, who starred as the ninth Time Lord in the wildly popular BBC sci-fi series in 2005, revealed he suffered from the eating disorder even in the midst of filming Doctor Who<\/em>. As he described of that time, “The illness is still there raging within me as the Doctor. People love the way I look in that series, but I was very ill. The reward for that illness was the part. And therein lies the perpetuation of the whole sorry situation.”<\/p>\n

Following the 2015 separation from his wife, Eccleston said he considered committing suicide and checked himself into a psychiatric hospital. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Eccleston was ultimately diagnosed with depression, and his recovery is ongoing. <\/p>\n

“I am on antidepressants to this day. I could be on them for the rest of my days. I do have an issue with that. I would like to attempt slowly to reduce the dose to experience reality again, to see how I do…And yet, interestingly I have received some of the best reviews of my life since I started taking them,” he explained in the book. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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In addition to his critically-acclaimed performance on Doctor Who<\/em>, Eccleston’s film and television credits include Thor: The Dark World<\/em>, Heroes<\/em> and The Leftovers<\/em>. <\/p>\n

I Love the Bones of You<\/em> is out Sept. 19. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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If you or someone you know needs help, please call the National Eating Disorders Association helpline at 1-800-931-2237.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ian West\/PA Images via Getty Images British actor Christopher Eccleston has gone public with a very private struggle. In an excerpt from his upcoming autobiography, titled I Love the Bones of You and published by CNN, the Doctor Who star detailed his experience as a “lifelong anorexic and dysmorphic.”  “I always thought of it as a filthy secret, because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-22 04:43:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}