Julie Bowen, 52, of Modern Family fame, reveals she had an eating disorder as a teenager
Julie Bowen developed an eating disorder as a “coping mechanism” as a teenager.
The former Modern Family star, who has Oliver, 15, and twins John and Gustav, 13, with ex-husband Scott Phillips, always worried about ‘making mistakes’ and not being able to ‘hold back’ when she was younger with your feelings. leading her to stop eating.
The blonde beauty shared that she was sometimes ‘starving’ and felt like she didn’t have time to eat.
Early days: Julie Bowen developed an eating disorder as a “coping mechanism” as a teenager. The former Modern Family star always worried about ‘making mistakes’ and not being able to ‘hold back’. The star seen as a young woman during her first headshot.
Very Slender Lady: Seen left in 2003 in New York City 20 years ago; and seen right addressing ABC this week
‘You know, it’s funny because I have three children, and they are all very different. But I see that one of them is very similar to me, and I see him always trying to color inside the lines and get the A+’, she said while in The Tamron Lounge Show.
‘And I think (as a teenager) I played being messy or making mistakes or having a butt or fat coming out of the top of your jeans [as] a symbol that you could not contain yourself. That you were too much, and that being good meant staying within the lines, literally and figuratively. Holding it tight.
And that’s my attitude: tight. And by the way, that’s not funny. It’s not a fun way to live.
At the time, Julie, now 52, was “struggling” with puberty and “didn’t like that feeling of change,” but found that when she was “starving,” she didn’t think about things as much.
She added: ‘We didn’t talk about anything, and it felt like…dirty. And I realized, when you really starve yourself, you don’t have feelings. It’s kind of amazing. The body says, “We don’t have time for that.” So I think it was a defense mechanism.
School Days: At the time, Julie was “struggling” with puberty and “didn’t like that feeling of change,” but found that when she was “starving,” she didn’t think about things as much.
Elsewhere on the show, the actress opened up about the “most disgusting” body shaming she experienced after the birth of her twins.
She said: “I was lucky to get a bit of fame and recognition before everyone had a cell phone in their pocket and a camera all the time.”
“I had my twins in 2009 and I was in Hawaii filming Modern Family. It was less than a year later, and I still had like baby crap.
“I was working and breastfeeding, and I jumped into the ocean with my husband at the time wearing a bikini, there was no one around, and when we got to the room, there were paparazzi like on the hidden rocks, and it was the most disgusting. Like, ” What’s wrong with her? This is disgusting.”
One look: she is seen here in 2002 in New York at the opening night of the play Elephant Man.
This week she spoke candidly about getting plastic surgery as soon as her hit TV show Modern Family came to an end in 2020.
The actress, who played Claire Dunphy on the ABC sitcom from 2009 to 2020, opened up on The View on Wednesday after being inspired by host Sunny Hostin, 54, who recently opened up about her own plastic surgery to destigmatize it. .
“I finally got my stomach fixed,” Julie revealed as she held her tummy.
Stomach fixed: ‘Finally, after all these years. They cut it open, the twins just cut it open,” Julia said of her stomach surgery in reference to her 13-year-old sons Gus and John, shown in 2010.
‘Finally, after all these years. They opened it up, the twins just opened it up,” he said, referring to his 13-year-old sons Gus and John.
‘And I said, ‘As soon as Modern Family is done… I’ll fix it.’ But it was 11 years! So, 11 years later, we finished on Friday and on Monday they came in and made you like a slipper,” Julie said.
Sunny gave Julie her approval.
You look kidnapped! You look good, Sunny told her.
Opening: The 52-year-old actress, who played Claire Dunphy on the ABC sitcom from 2009 to 2020, opened on The View on Wednesday after being inspired by host Sunny Hostin, 54, who recently opened up about her own surgery plastic to destigmatize it
‘Thanks. … I think?’, replied Julie.
Julie previously noted that she was 39 years old and pregnant with twins when she filmed the pilot episode of Modern Family.
The actress also has a 15-year-old son, Oliver, with ex-husband Scott Phillips.
Julie and Scott were married in September 2004 and she filed for divorce in February 2018 and it was finalized in September 2018.
Critical Acclaim: Julie is shown with Sarah Hyland, Ariel Winter, Ty Burrell and Nolan Gould in the 2009 promo for Modern Family.