Jennette McCurdy speaks out about her mom encouraging an eating disorder

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00:00You said that you didn't know what anorexia was until you overheard your mom talking about it

00:04with your doctor. Yeah. When do you think it finally started to really sink in that your

00:10mother was actively not only enabling but also encouraging an eating disorder? I think I mean

00:16in that moment when I heard her speaking with the doctor it was when I first started

00:19piecing things together of okay at that point we'd really been in the trenches of cataloging

00:25everything we wrote restricting calories really monitoring weighing me all the time she'd measure

00:29my thighs all of these behaviors had been in play for a while and then hearing my doctor speaking

00:34with her I didn't know you know I was I guess I I don't know I was maybe 11 or 12 maybe at that

00:39point and so I didn't know exactly what was going on but I had a feeling that gut instinct something

00:44was wrong and I shoved that gut instinct down and I said okay there's no place for that because mom

00:49would never do that to me right mom wouldn't that would not come on she's my mom whatever give her

00:54the benefit of the doubt and I just kept giving her the benefit of the doubt and I just kept giving her

00:59I didn't know who you know that I didn't have no place for that so only have some