Ashlee Simpson who recently posed for the cover of Shape magazine in a red string bikini and a newly toned image admitted that she wasn’t always happy with her body. When she was younger she had an eating disorder. She said she was so desperate to fit in as a dancer that she gave in to an eating disorder. She was in ballet school and surrounded by girls with eating disorders and developed one herself. “it was about six months of not eating much at all. I was 11 and 5’2’’ and about 70 pounds. My parents stepped in and made me eat.”
I usually imagine celebrities having eating disorders at the time where their famous, not as children. I guess she was the other way around.  

    I saw that photo, she looks really good.  I wouldn't think she has an eating disorder now bc she looks fit, not really skinny like if she had an ED.  I can imagine contemplating an ED if I was a dancer, my old best friend was in ballet and all of the extremely slim girls were favored by the teachers.  That's the body type for ballet, thin legs and a flat chest.  I'm not sure if Ashlee Simpson was in ballet, but basically for any type of dancing, you should be slim, that's just the body type.
    Have you ever seen that movie Center Stage?  It's about ballet dancers at Juliard and one of the girls has an eating disorder.  She makes herself purge and her boyfriend finds out and makes her stop.  And this other girl gets kicked out because she is too heavy and everyone talked about her like she was a cow!  There's a lot of pressure as a dancer, especially if you're planning to stick with it as a career. 

There are a lot of reasons she could've developed an ED.  And those reasons stick with people as they get older, and they often revert back to old behaviors. 

My aunt was anorexic for many years when she was a teenager. She is really tall too and was down to skin and bones. My grandma told me that when she was like that she would have to hand make her clothes because they couldn't find anything that small, but still long in length. It got so bad for her that she lost her period for years and it's not like my grandparents didn't try to help her so I don't blame them. They would try to make her eat, but there was no stopping her. I see pictures of her and it doesn't even look like the same person. She isn't anorexic anymore, but she is very picky on what she does eat. I'm glad she is better because anorexia is a very scary thing.