Alanis fought anorexia
Alanis Morissette has revealed she fought anorexia as a teenager because she grew up convinced she wasn't good enough.
The newly-engaged Canadian singer admits she had huge body image issues as a teen and spent years turning her back on anorexia.
She says: "As a young girl, I felt demeaned, and that hurt me. I made that to mean that I was bad and terrible. There was a lot of focus on what the external was.
"I struggled with eating disorders all through my teen years… Some of it was just because of magazines and society and messages and family and school and everything."
Morissette states she only learned to stop struggling when she learned to accept herself as she was.
She adds, "I can love the fact that I'm very stupid and very smart, that I'm brilliant and an idiot, vulnerable and powerful and everything in between, and then I'm much more peaceful, because I'm not fighting against any part of myself anymore.
"The struggle is gone. The struggle of resisting certain parts of myself, trying to hide it, is gone."
