As Bridget was working her way up in the modeling world, she was constantly pressured to lose weight. She sought out the help of a celeb nutritionist who placed her on a 800 calorie daily diet. She shared the story on her personal blog and dealt with this from 2014 to 2017 because she was trying to keep her body in the BMI underweight range.
“This person took my fat measurements, and claimed me to be ‘a mess,’ ” Malcolm wrote. “My BMI was in the underweight range. To be honest, I’m not really sure what a mess even means. Any trained dietician would probably recommend me putting on a few pounds. But, this person thought I needed ‘all the help I could get’ to lose that pesky extra weight that was regulating my hormones and keeping me healthy.”
Her diet consisted of shakes, steamed vegetables and supplements that she had to buy directly from them.
“I happily went along with their plan for a few months, lost loads of weight, along with my period, my digestion and nearly my relationship,” Malcolm said.
After hitting the target weight and beginning to eat more food (three meals a day and mostly vegetables and no carbs), she gained all the weight back and had to go back on the diet.
“I had pressure on me from all sides telling me to lose weight. So I went back. This time a little heavier,” she said. “My BMI had been moved from underweight to healthy for the first time since I was 14. In that sense this pseudo-nutritionist had done their job, albeit through an extremely unnecessary, roundabout way.”
“I walked in, measurements were taken, they looked me in the eye and said, ‘you are fat,’ ” Malcolm recalled. “I was astounded! Never in all my years of modeling had someone come straight out and said I was fat.”
She still went back on the diet two more times and said she dealt with “lethargy, mild depression and anxiety” and panic attacks for months.
She eventually giving up the diet for good but had damaged her digestive and endocrine systems.
“I had completely lost any idea of what to eat — I had no idea when I was hungry or what I even liked,” she said. “But slowly, one step at a time (that’s also another story) I found myself where I am today.”
Malcolm said that she wants the fashion industry and dieting culture to change.
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