Courtney Hope spoke with “General Hospital” star Maurice Benard on his YouTube show “State of Mind” and addressed her eating disorder. “I’m healed from it,” Hope began, adding that she didn’t fully understand what it was when it first began. Hope had filmed a movie in Bulgaria when she was 19 and contracted a parasite while she was there. “I got really sick on set,” she said, noting that she thought it was food poisoning and wasn’t aware of what was really going on. She said she continued to feel ill and couldn’t eat because of how sick she was. She lost weight and said that people complimented her on how she looked.
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Hope added that she was suffering from anxiety at this time and was taking anxiety medication as well. “There was a lot of stuff that I felt like I couldn’t control and that was one thing I was like, ‘Well at least I can look good,'” she added. She struggled with both anorexia and bulimia and later took to fitness, where she worked out to burn as many calories as she had eaten. Hope spoke about this experience with Soap Opera Digest, too, and said, “I wasn’t really eating and for a short time, I had bulimia. Then one day I went, ‘What am I doing? This is not who I am.’ So I started eating but overexercised.” Thankfully, she saw a doctor who helped rid her of the parasites, and then was able to work on her eating disorder.
