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Then there is Feed, a film Bellisario wrote when she was 23 about her own experiences with an eating disorder, due out this summer. “When I was in high school, I was confronted because I had lost a lot of weight and people around me were concerned, and they said, ‘If you don’t gain weight, you aren’t going to college.’ And I was like, I can’t go from being the valedictorian of my graduating class to not going to college," she recalled. "I thought I was an utter failure, so I said, ‘No problem, I’ll eat.’ But that wasn’t the problem. The problem was I was suffering from a mental disease that is not solved by just putting on a few pounds.”
The following year, while going to school on the East Coast, she was sent home and hospitalized for the illness. “I thought it was the end of my life, but then I realized it was a whole new way to start,” she said. “Coming out of being hospitalized, the most frustrating thing to me was the people that I loved still didn’t understand my experience with the disease…So I sat down for a long while and realized that if what I feel the most comfortable doing is telling stories, then why don’t I tell a story about this? I wanted to try to put people like my father or my mother or my best friend in my shoes so that they could experience what I felt, and maybe understand.”
Due to her busy Pretty Little Liars schedule, it wasn’t until recently that the film became a reality, with Bellisario also taking on the lead role. “I really wrote this because I wanted to embody this role, even though a lot of people said, ‘That might be putting yourself in a dangerous position,’” she said. “But the good thing with the more time that passed, the more emotional distance I felt from my engagement with the illness. The tough thing is that is always alive in you and when you engage with it, that is so loud, but I am at a different point in my life.”
The actress is understandably equal parts thrilled and petrified. “It’s a film that means the world to me, but it’s also a first film,” she said. “It’s not a perfect film. I’m very nervous especially to share a darker side of myself with my fan base, who have only ever been supportive of me, but at the same time, that makes you really not want to let them down, especially when it comes to this issue that is this important. It’s terrifying.”
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