Doctor Who Star Christopher Eccleston Reveals ”Lifelong” Anorexia Battle
British actor Christopher Eccleston has gone public with a very private struggle.
In an excerpt from his upcoming autobiography, titled I Love the Bones of You and published by CNN, the Doctor Who star detailed his experience as a "lifelong anorexic and dysmorphic." "I always thought of it as a filthy secret, because I'm northern, because I'm male and because I'm working class," he wrote. Eccleston, who starred as the ninth Time Lord in the wildly popular BBC sci-fi series in 2005, revealed he suffered from the eating disorder even in the midst of filming Doctor Who.
As he described of that time, "The illness is still there...