'It’s the 25 percent of sickness that’s left': Jackie Goldschneider says she's scared 'to let go of' old habits
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: Jackie Goldschneider has good news for her fans. The TV personality shared that she has recovered 75 percent from Anorexia disease.
“I have 25 percent of these old habits that I’m scared to let go of,” the 'Real Housewives of New Jersey' star told host Jana Kramer on 'Kramer’s Whine Down' podcast on Monday, January 9.
She added that those old habits are “nothing anorexia. I am not anorexic anymore. I don’t restrict like that anymore.”
Jackie Goldschneider said her eating disorder started when she was 17
Goldschneider’s eating disorder started when she was 17, and a doctor told her “I wouldn’t have any fun in college if I was fat.”
“I still have not weighed myself since May of 2021,” Goldschneider said about her road to recovery, adding “The scale is such a loaded issue for me. I can’t hate a number that I don’t know.”
“When I was really sick, it was very obsessive for me. Every half pound would set me off in a different direction….[I had] rituals that went into weighing myself. I had to feel thin. I couldn’t have one extra ounce on my body. Everyone had to leave me alone in my room for a half hour. I had to do several different weigh-ins on several different areas of the floor," she continued.
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But things have changed, “I have lately been having a lot of conversations with my dietician and therapist, who I still speak to once a week each, about getting back on the scale. And they both think it’s a horrible idea.”
Goldschneider told People, “It’s the 25 percent of sickness that’s left. I think that if I was truly recovered and in a really healthy place, I wouldn’t need to know a number.”
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“I have skin in the game when it comes to eating disorders. I know how they destroy your life,” she reflected.
“People are gonna have to go off these drugs and what then? You’re gonna have all these people who are suddenly gonna wake up and realize that they want to stay thin and they don’t know how to do that now without these drugs, and you’re gonna have all of these people with newly formed eating disorders," she concluded.
