Ed Sheeran Recalls Feeling ‘Fat’ Compared to One Direction Singers, Details His Eating Disorder: ‘I’m a Binge-Everything’
usmagazine.comEd Sheeran recalled having a hard time early in his career when he noticed he didn’t look like every other male artist.“I’m self-conscious anyway, but you get into an industry where you’re getting compared to every other pop star.
I was in the One Direction wave, and I’m like, ‘Well, why don’t I have a six-pack?’” the 32-year-old crooner told Rolling Stone in an article published on Tuesday, March 21. “And I was like, ‘Oh, because you love kebabs and drink beer.’ Then you do songs with Justin Bieber and Shawn Mendes.
All these people have fantastic figures. And I was always like, ‘Well, why am I so … fat?’”The “Bad Habits” singer revealed that he developed an eating disorder amid the stress and pressure to fit in.“I found myself doing what Elton [John] talks about in his book — gorging, and then it would come up again,” Sheeran explained, referring to John’s autobiography, Me, in which he wrote about his battle with bulimia.The “Shape of You” crooner told the outlet that speaking out about his eating disorder is somewhat taboo among men — and in the U.K.“There’s certain things that, as a man talking about them, I feel mad uncomfortable,” Sheeran continued. “I know people are going to see it a type of way, but it’s good to be honest about them.
Because so many people do the same thing and hide it as well.”The Grammy winner confessed: “I have a real eating problem [and] I’m a real binge eater.
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