ALANIS MORISSETTE ON EATING DISORDER

Alanis Morissette

Hit singer Alanis Morissette was once so overwhelmed by the pressure to look thin, she ended up with a eating disorder.Alanis was told she would have to slim down if she wanted to succeed in the music industry, and as a result, the Canadian star became both anorexic and bulimic. Morissette recalls a record executive once "suggested I was getting too fat, saying, 'You need to go on a diet.' My response was, 'But I'm a singer.' He said, 'Yes, well, you need to get small again.'" She adds, "That started a whole cycle. Two days later I was sticking fingers down my throat."