Adam S. By Levy for Dailymail.com
06:44 14 April 2023, up to date 08:13 14 April 2023
- The actress, who’s Demi Lovato’s half-sister, spoke on the Coronary heart of the Matter podcast
- She mentioned she would learn abusive YouTube feedback evaluating her to TV mother Eva Longoria
- The 21-year-old actress mentioned she was “attempting to starve” after studying nasty feedback about her on-line.
Madison De La Garza says the anti-weight feedback she acquired on-line led to her creating an consuming dysfunction on the age of seven.
Talking on the Coronary heart of the Matter podcast on Tuesday, the 21-year-old actress mentioned she was “attempting to starve herself” when she was younger after studying nasty feedback about her on-line.
“It was simply stunning,” mentioned De La Garza, who performed Juanita Solis on “Determined Housewives,” about her character “Repercussion” on the ABC sequence starring Eva Longoria, Teri Hatcher, Marcia Cross and Felicity Huffman. :
De La Garza, who’s Demi Lovato’s half-sister, famous that a lot of her critics tried to phrase their insults.
“Lots of people have come to it as a result of they’re ‘involved about my well being,'” he mentioned. “And I personally consider that is simply not true, that it was a cover-up for them to simply attempt a six-year-old.”
De La Garza mentioned he was “by no means allowed to work on a pc unsupervised at that age” however would spend “hours and hours” watching feedback left on YouTube movies and TMZ tales.
The actress, who starred within the 2008-2012 drama-comedy’s 72nd episode, added: “I simply had a loopy time studying these feedback and a number of them had been simply merciless.
“They mentioned issues like they wished me to die due to my look. It was simply terrible. And this was after I was seven, eight years previous.”
De La Garza talked in regards to the affect these phrases had on her rising up.
“Studying feedback like this undoubtedly affected my psychological well being and finally contributed to me creating an consuming dysfunction at a really younger age,” she mentioned.
De La Garza’s character, Juanita, was the adopted daughter of Longoria’s character, Gabrielle Solis, which she mentioned led many commentators to match the 2.
“The entire joke of my character was that Eva was this skinny, stunning mannequin and her daughter was the exact opposite,” De La Garza mentioned. ‘And so I feel he knew very effectively that it was going to have an effect on me.
De La Garza mentioned Longoria was a comforting presence throughout a troubled time.
“We have by no means actually talked about it, however [Longoria] undoubtedly went out of her option to make me really feel stunning and particular and she or he made me really feel like household,” she mentioned. “And if I ever wished to go to him with these items, I completely might.”
Individuals combating consuming issues can contact the Nationwide Consuming Problems Affiliation (NEDA) at 1-800-931-2237.
