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Country singer Sara Evans revealed that she has an eating upset during a candid chat pinch erstwhile "Dancing With The Stars" pro Cheryl Burke.
On Monday, Evans, 53, joined Burke connected nan 39-year-old dancer's podcast "Sex, Lies and Spray Tans," and nan 2 reflected connected nan downsides of being successful nan nationalist eye.
"With fame comes people's opinions. How do you grip each this?" Burke asked.
"It bothers me," Evans admitted. "I won't opportunity that it doesn't. I person an eating disorder. I'm much frightened of being fat than thing successful nan world, and that's not good. That's not normal."
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Country vocalist Sara Evans revealed that she has an eating disorder. (Jason Davis/Getty Images)
The "A Little Bit Stronger" vocalist went connected to opportunity that she besides struggles pinch body dysmorphia.
Body dysmorphic upset is simply a intelligence wellness information that causes group to fixate connected perceived flaws aliases defects successful their quality that are seen arsenic insignificant aliases not evident to others, according to nan Mayo Clinic.
The information causes embarrassment, worry and shame that tin lead those affected to debar societal situations and effect their expertise to usability successful their regular lives.
Evans explained that she worries astir her quality each clip that she is "on shape and being judged"
Sara Evans shared that she besides has assemblage dysmorphia. (FOX)
"My grounds label, each clip I had a baby, they would beryllium like, ‘When's she gonna suffer weight?’" nan mother of 3 said. "So things for illustration that would conscionable get successful my head."
"I'm a group pleaser," she added. "Like, if I'm skinny and I'm beautiful and I did a bully show, past I'm loved."
"And I want to consciousness loved nary matter what," Evans added.
The Missouri native recalled that she was precocious reference comments connected her podcast "Diving successful Deep" erstwhile she came crossed a connection near by a listener who wrote, "What happened to your face?"
"I conscionable wanted to respond, like, ‘How situation you?’ " Evans said. "I haven't done thing to my face. I've had Botox."
The vocalist has antecedently spoken retired astir struggling pinch her intelligence health. (Getty Images)
"People deliberation I person my full look redone," she added. "I'm like, ‘Really? When did I do this?’"
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"You wanna cognize what happened to my face? I'm 52."
Evans antecedently elaborate struggling pinch her intelligence wellness successful her 2020 memoir "Born to Fly." She revealed that she suffers from post-traumatic accent upset (PTSD), worry and claustrophobia stemming from being deed by a car erstwhile she was 8 years aged successful 1979.
Following nan accident, nan vocalist had a concussion and terrible injures to her near limb that required weeks of betterment successful nan hospital.
"For six agonizing weeks, I remained successful that infirmary bed," Evans wrote. "I'd person a sudden, overwhelming emotion of symptom and panic consuming me. 'I want retired of this!' I’d scream, thrashing astir till personification held maine down and calmed me. I felt for illustration I was being buried alive."
Sara Evans said that anti-anxiety medicine "saved" her life. (Photo by Terry Wyatt/WireImage)
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"I had terrible PTSD and anxiety, but it was nan '80s, and I didn't person a sanction for it," Evans told People mag successful 2020. "I don't deliberation my mother moreover thought, like, 'Maybe I should return her to therapy.' I thought I could grip it because I'm tough."
Evans wrote successful her memoir that her mental health struggles were later exacerbated by her parents' divorce.
She recalled that she suffered her first panic onslaught successful December 2005 aft she "succumbed to utmost anxiety" while dealing pinch marital problems pinch her ex-husband Craig Schelske.
The erstwhile couple, who stock boy Avery, 24, and daughters Olivia, 21, and Audrey, 19, divided successful 2007. Evans is presently joined to retired NFL subordinate Jay Barker, whom she wed successful 2008.
Sara Evans and hubby Jay Barker be nan 47th Annual Academy Of Country Music Awards held astatine nan MGM Grand Garden Arena connected April 1, 2012 successful Las Vegas. (Christopher Polk/ACMA2012/Getty Images for ACM)
In her memoir, Evans wrote that a expert yet prescribed her an anti-anxiety medicine that "saved her life."
"It calmed maine down," nan musician told People. "Taking it besides made maine recognize you're not going to beryllium this measurement forever. I ever show my kids, 'The toll that worry takes connected your assemblage and connected your mind, I think, is truthful overmuch worse than if you person to return [medication] to calm down.'"
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Evans told that outlet that she now has a amended knowing of nan triggers that bring connected her worry and PTSD.
"I still struggle," she said. "But I'm truthful grateful for each 2nd of this life."
Ashley Hume is an intermezo writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips tin beryllium sent to ashley.hume@fox.com and connected Twitter: @ashleyhume
