Jeanette McCurdy brought laughs to a generation of kids as “iCarly” sidekick Sam Puckett, but at the time she was starring in the hit Nickelodeon sitcom her real-life teenage years were far darker, including a painful struggle with bulimia that she credits to her mother.
McCurdy appeared on the “Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown” podcast and discussed how her mother, who died in 2013 of breast cancer, put her on the path to developing a severe eating disorder.
It all began when McCurdy began developing breasts at age 11, with her mother suggesting she stick to a strict diet in order to keep them from growing larger so it wouldn’t impact her career as a child actor.
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