Robbie Williams has opened up about his battle with physique dysmorphia in a devastatingly sincere new social media publish, describing it as a “f**king disaster”.
The former Take That member-turned-successful solo artist, 49, shared a prolonged Instagram message to his 2.7 million followers about his weight struggles after followers reacted to his just lately slimmed-down body.
The candid caption was hooked up to a cartoon picture of two characters, the place one tells the opposite that “it’s gone too far” to which the opposite replies, “Aw, bless you.”
Above it are the phrases: “My ideal goal weight is people being worried about me.”
The British singer then opened up within the caption about his “pure self-hatred”.
“So, if a genie appeared and said, ‘You can either have your super power be the ability to fly or eat what you want and remain at your goal weight?’ I would go for goal weight eating every day. What about you?” Williams requested his followers.
“I could write a book about self-loathing where my body image is concerned. Like pure self-hatred, the ugliness of feeling ugly.
“I’m body dysmorphic and on top of being dysmorphic, at times I can be 40+ pounds (18kgs) overweight. So you can imagine what my mine sees. Or maybe you can’t, either way it’s a **king disaster.”
The father-of-four pointed to his latest weight reduction, admitting that his present measurement isn’t making him blissful, both.
“At the moment I’m skinny. But me being me, my mind is going, ‘F**king great Rob, you managed to get skinny and now your (sic) old, congrats, golf clap’.
“The struggle is real. The sadness shocking. I’ve had it all my life. And it won’t abate.”
Williams then requested: “What is it that is hardwired in us, that is so calloused, that makes self-acceptance and self-love so difficult that it seems impossible?”
He completed up by insisting he wasn’t “fishing for compliments” however sharing his story “for some sort of release.”
“And if someone else recognises themselves in the words I’ve written, maybe it helps both of us,” Williams wrote.
Singer Paloma Faith provided her assist, in one of many top-rated feedback on the publish.
“I’m exactly the same …. Sometimes when I see photos of me and im slim I can’t believe it and assume they have been photoshopped because in my mind im ALWAYS over weight and it’s exhausting. I wish I could be body positive but alas I’m just body negative and I’ve had two babies,” she wrote.
The Angels singer’s spouse, Ayda Field, has beforehand spoken in regards to the impact fellow British star Noel Gallagher’s infamously brutal description of him as “the fat dancer from Take That” had on his vanity.
“That sucks,” she admitted.
Meanwhile, Williams has spoken candidly prior to now about his lifetime battle with addictions – particularly “sugar” – admitting to The Sun final yr that it’s a “constant fight”.
“I have lost weight but it is a constant fight. Inside me there’s a giant person,” he stated.
“My whole being and my whole body wants me to go in the opposite direction and be morbidly obese.
“At the moment I am just eating less. It is a constant slog and it is not a natural way of being. For me, what is normal is being twice this size.”
Williams additionally informed The Sun that he struggles with sustaining his well being.
“There is no balance – moderation doesn’t exist. I do not have the ability to make that happen. It is either fat or thin.”
Source: www.news.com.au
