Portia De Rossi Admits To Abusing Her Body

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Portia de Rossi has admitted “abusing her body” while in the grip of an eating disorder.

The Hollywood actress was pictured looking increasingly thin during her appearance on US drama Ally McBeal between 1998 and 2002, and has since admitted she has suffered from anorexia for much of her life.

Portia has now revealed she abused diet drugs including Fen-phen, an anti-obesity drug consisting of Fenfluramine and Phentermine. Fenfluramine was shown to cause heart valve problems and other problems, and was withdrawn in 1997 amid a reported $13 billion legal damages case.

“Nobody can really get inside the anorexic’s mind like the anorexic. I abused my body. I had bulimia. I would use fen-phen,” Portia said.

The actress has now recovered, and credits her relationship with talk show host Ellen DeGeneres with helping her deal with her demons. The couple are married, and same-sex marriage is something Portia feels strongly about.

She has called on other homosexual couples to fight for their right to wed, something she can’t believe they are often denied. “I think it’s up to us to save marriage, up to gay people across the country, seeing as though we’re fighting for it so vehemently. This whole thing has been a wave of excitement and hope, and then it gently falls back into despair. And then it picks us up again. Unfortunately, we’re the ones who have to suffer this - this humiliation, really. There’s kind of a dignity that’s been stripped from us. Gay people are the ones who have to suffer through it - but without it, it won’t change,” she told Advocate magazine.