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FILE – Kerry Washington arrives at the premiere of “Unprisoned” on Thursday, March 2, 2023, at Hollywood Legion Theater in Los Angeles. The White House has announced a star-studded slate of members for the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities which serves as an advisory board to President Joe Biden on culture issues. Kerry Washington has been tapped to be on the committee according to the White House. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File) In New Memoir Kerry Washington recently opened up in her new memoir, Thicker Than Water, that she thought about taking her life when her eating disorder was at its worst. Washington said, “I could feel how the abuse was a way to really hurt myself, as if I didn’t want to be here. It scared me that I could not want to be here because I was in so much pain.” She continued, “The behavior was tiny little acts of trying to destroy myself.” She added, “[My body had] become a toxic cycle of self abuse that utilized the tools of starvation, binge eating, body obsession and compulsive exercise. The first thing that put me on my knees — like the first time I got on my knees and prayed to some power greater than myself to say like, ‘I can’t do this, I need some help’ — was with my eating disorder.” Washington continued, “I was good at performing ‘perfect.’ I was good at control. I could party all night and drink and smoke and have sex and still show up and have good grades. I knew how to manage; I was so high-functioning and the food took me out. The body-dysmorphia, the body-hatred, it was beyond my control and really led me to feeling like, ‘I need help for somebody, or something, bigger than me because I’m in trouble and I don’t know how to live with this.'”
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