Megan: “I’ve had so many issues with my weight”
The EX-TOWIE star speaks out after being targeted by trolls
She’s known for S her knockout figure, but after body shamers criticised her slimmer frame recently, and accused her of having an eating disorder, Megan Mckenna was forced to hit back.
The former TOWIE star – who’s in an on/off romance with Love Island star Mike Thalassitis, 25 – insisted, “It’s not OK to call someone fat, so why is it OK to call me anorexic? The pressure of trolls on social media can be very stressful. I need to stop caring about what other people say. I’m a strong person, but I am only human and sometimes things can get to me. Some [comments] can be really nasty.
“I like my body, my hair,
❛I AM A STRONG PERSON BUT SOME ONLINE COMMENTS CAN BE REALLY NASTY❜
my lips... but I stress about the smallest things. I don’t have big boobs. I don’t like my waist and I think I’m bony sometimes.”
Megan, 25, explained her fluctuating weight is due to her battle with coeliac disease – a severe intolerance to gluten – which she was diagnosed with as a child.
STRUCK DOWN
The star added, “Apparently, I starve myself. But because I have a wheat allergy and am coeliac, I have so many issues with my weight. A couple of months back, I had so much abuse saying my legs were so bony.
“But I had food poisoning. I came out of hospital and, just because I dealt with it in private and no one knew about it, I was getting so much abuse.”
In January, Megan was rushed to hospital hours after walking the red carpet at the National Television Awards after being struck Love down with colitis Mike – a condition where the gut becomes inflamed and has symptoms similar to those of Crohn’s disease.
STRICT DIET
Opening up about her coeliac diagnosis, she said, “I was always an ill child. I had half a year off school [aged seven] because I was so unwell. That’s when they started doing tests on me, but it took them four to five years to find out what was wrong.
“I was 11 years old when I was diagnosed. I have to eat really strictly because coeliac disease is a wheat and gluten intolerance. I eat a lot of spinach and I take vitamins, too, which helps keep me in shape.”