Highlights

• Taylor Swift struggled with an eating disorder triggered by paparazzi photos. Seeing pictures of herself led to body image issues and unhealthy behaviors.
• Speaking out about her disorder was difficult for Swift. Opening up about her struggles with food and body image was uncomfortable but necessary.
• Swift also discussed her mental health struggles in the Netflix documentary "Miss Americana." She felt hurt by fans' reactions and expressed her weariness with the pressure to please others.

At the moment, Taylor Swift is among the best of the best in the music world. She has her own way of spending her billion dollar net worth. What fans love about the artist is, no matter how much success she continues to gather, Swift remains humble and transparent about her struggles.

In the following, we're going to take a closer look at Taylor Swift's struggles with an eating disorder. This was all triggered by one photo taken by the paparazzi. We'll reveal what she had to say about the disorder, and how she finally mustered up the courage to come forward with the story.

Let's get started.

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Taylor Swift Struggled With An Eating Disorder Sparked By Paparazzi Photos

Speaking alongside Variety, Taylor Swift opened up about overcoming her struggle with an eating disorder. During the interview, Swift said this all started after seeing photos of herself taken by the paparazzi. To this day, Swift struggles to see photos of herself.

She explains, “It’s not good for me to see pictures of myself every day. It’s only happened a few times, and I’m not in any way proud of it." She continues, "A picture of me where I feel like I looked like my tummy was too big, or… someone said that I looked pregnant … and that’ll just trigger me to just starve a little bit — just stop eating.”

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Swift would go on to recall a specific photo taken when she was only 18, that linked her to a possible pregnancy.

"I remember how, when I was 18, that was the first time I was on the cover of a magazine,” she says. “And the headline was like ‘Pregnant at 18?’ And it was because I had worn something that made my lower stomach look not flat. So I just registered that as a punishment."

Swift continues, "And then I’d walk into a photo shoot and be in the dressing room and somebody who worked at a magazine would say, ‘Oh, wow, this is so amazing that you can fit into the sample sizes. Usually we have to make alterations to the dresses, but we can take them right off the runway and put them on you!’ And I looked at that as a pat on the head. You register that enough times, and you just start to accommodate everything towards praise and punishment, including your own body.”

A tough reality for Swift, and it was something that was even harder to speak out about.

Taylor Swift Admitted It Was Hard To Speak Out About Her Disorder

Not only was dealing with the disorder difficult, but during her interview with Variety, the artist also mentioned that speaking out about it wasn't easy either.

She revealed, “I think I’ve never really wanted to talk about that before, and I’m pretty uncomfortable talking about it now,” she says quietly. “But in the context of every other thing that I was doing or not doing in my life, I think it makes sense," Swift reveals finally opening up about her past struggles.

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Swift would go on to reveal that she wasn't sure if discussing food was the right way to go, given the struggle with it over the years. However, the Miss Americana director Lana Wilson fit in perfectly into the doc.

"But the way that Lana (Wilson, the film’s director) tells the story, it really makes sense. I’m not as articulate as I should be about this topic because there are so many people who could talk about it in a better way."

Credit to Taylor who was very open during the Netflix doc, and discussed another serious matter she struggled with.

Taylor Swift Was Also Open About Her Mental Health Struggles During Netflix's Miss Americana

Taylor Swift fans were left heartbroken after the artist was in tears discussing her problem that was bigger than music. Swift broke down feeling as though fans had turned on her, and it hurt her mental health.

She talked about the Taylor Swift is over part tag on Twitter in particular.

"We're people that got into this line of work because we wanted people to like us. Cause we were insecure, because we like to hear the sound of clapping because it made us forget that we were not good enough."

She continues, "I've been doing this for 15 years and I'm tired of it. It just feels like it's more than music now at this point. And most days I'm like okay, and then sometimes I'm like, it just gets loud sometimes."

A tough moment but one the fans are very grateful for as the artist once again demonstrated her transparency over real life struggles.

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