{"id":25237,"date":"2019-06-12T07:20:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T13:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1048782"},"modified":"2019-06-12T07:20:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T13:20:34","slug":"why-kyle-richards-finally-opened-up-about-her-eating-disorder-i-felt-like-a-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/why-kyle-richards-finally-opened-up-about-her-eating-disorder-i-felt-like-a-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Kyle Richards Finally Opened Up About Her Eating Disorder: ” I Felt Like a Fraud”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After nine seasons on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills<\/em>, Kyle Richards<\/a><\/strong> revealed a new aspect of her life: she had an eating disorder while growing up<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“It started when I was 17. I was on a TV show and they kept putting me in these big things, my boobs were big when I was young, my sisters were tiny and cute, everyone was blonde, blue-eyed and skinny. I said I don’t like my wardrobe and they said, \u2018Lose some weight and we’ll put you in cuter wardrobe,'” Kyle told costars Lisa Rinna<\/a><\/strong>, Dorit Kemsley<\/strong>, Teddi Mellencamp<\/strong> and Erika Girardi<\/strong> while on a trip to France.<\/p>\n

“People would compliment me and the more they complemented me, the less I would eat. I would take V8 juice and put it in a bowl, heat it up and that was my food. I was 99 pounds. It was like that for years. I mean, I can remember times where I was like, \u2018I’ll only have six almonds today. That’s all I’m going to have,'” Kyle continued<\/a>. “I was very self-conscious.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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On The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills<\/em> after show, Kyle opened up more about why she never talked about her eating disorder before.<\/p>\n

“I’m not saying this is the right choice, but I have four daughters and I just was so terrified that they would ever have one, I didn’t even want them to have that in their head. Sitting in that moment with Lisa Rinna and they were talking about Amelia, they were talking about all these things that I knew and experienced, I felt like a fraud sitting there listening to all this stuff, being like, \u2018Oh, really? Oh, it’s so\u2014I didn’t know about this,'” she said.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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And because she didn’t tell her daughters before she told her friends, Kyle said she was nervous. “But I thought it felt like the right thing to do,” she said. “And then afterwards I was like, \u2018Oh, gosh. Well, now I need to have a conversation.'”<\/p>\n

While sitting with Teddi on the after show, Kyle admitted she’s always going to be a person who is structured with her eating. She said she can always feel it in her mood when she doesn’t eat well or exercise. “It’ll probably always be with me. I will never go to the lengths that I did before, but it’s, yeah, it’s a personality type, honestly. It’s a form also of control too. There was a lot of chaos when I was a kid at times, I think this was my way of having control of something,” she said.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Teddi said she thought it was important for Kyle to share her story, as well as Amelia Hamlin<\/strong>. “I think it’s a problem that so many people struggle with. There’s a large group of people struggling silently,” she said.<\/p>\n

Kyle said she also shares her problems with anxiety in an effort to destigmatize and feel better about it too. Click play on the video above for more.<\/p>\n

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills<\/em> airs Tuesdays, 9 p.m. on Bravo.<\/p>\n

(E! and Bravo are both part of the NBCUniversal family.)<\/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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