When Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi first clapped eyes on each other at a party in 2001, it was love at first sight. But locked in the grips of a devastating eating disorder and terrified of going public with her sexuality, it would be three long years before Portia could tell Ellen how she really felt. “[I knew Ellen was the one] when I first laid eyes on her, but I was closeted and very, very afraid that if I talked about being gay, it would be the end of my career, so I wasn’t about to date the most famous lesbian in the world," she would later recall.
From being told she needed to lose weight as a child model, Portia, 47, had been suffering from disordered eating since she was 12 - starving herself before a big job and binging the
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