Keira Knightley says she’s nonetheless deeply affected by the tabloid rumors surrounding her physique.
The Oscar-nominated actor was solely 17 years outdated when her breakout function in “Bend It Like Beckham” (2002) led to a star-making flip within the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, and is now candidly recalling how the ensuing media consideration affected her psychological well being.
In an interview revealed Saturday about previous experiences that she suffered from an consuming dysfunction, Knightley, now 39, informed The Instances, “I knew I wasn’t, I knew I was eating.”
“In that classic trauma way I don’t remember it,” she added about that interval of her life. “There’s been a complete delete, and then some things will come up and I’ll suddenly have a very bodily memory of it because, ultimately, it’s public shaming, isn’t it?”
Knightley received a libel swimsuit towards The Every day Mail in 2007 after the paper recommended her thinness had contributed to the dying of a 19-year-old who had anorexia.
“I remember viscerally one of the Olsen twins had anorexia, and she went into a clinic,” Knightley informed the Instances. “I remember being asked about it on a press tour, like it was a joke. She was meant to be shamed for seeking help for anorexia.”
“Can you imagine? That made me really emotional. That’s not even about me, it’s about her. I still can’t bear it,” Knightley stated.
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The acclaimed actor has beforehand shared that underneath the strain of public scrutiny and being hounded by the tabloids, she had a psychological well being disaster at 22. She was recognized with post-traumatic stress dysfunction and took a yr hiatus from appearing on the time.
Knightley now balances her appearing profession together with her household life. She married musician James Righton in 2013, grew to become a mom in 2015, and has been elevating their daughters Edie, 9, and Delilah, 5, between appearing jobs.
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The actor informed The Instances she not too long ago had a weekend to herself and deliberate to stroll “really, really far” to “go and eat noodles,” and loved binge-watching Disney+’s black comedy interval drama “Rivals.”
“I thought they were all brilliant,” she added of the actors within the sequence. “The bonking is extraordinary.”
