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The people who helped her through the process thought that going back to acting was like “an alcoholic working at a bar,” but after booking Claws, Lyon found power in using her platform to raise awareness around eating disorders, as well as other important issues near and dear to her.Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello appear loved-up after Coachella reunion - as on-again couple enjoy flirty date night “I was like unless I’m this ideal, I’ll never get work.”īut it was going through eating disorder recovery and gaining 75 pounds that put Lyon on the best path forward in her professional life. “I thought being a working actress was the be all end all,” she says. The aspiring actress made her way to Los Angeles where she booked roles while at her lowest weight, which she figured was her only option. “I could attach to like 10 times throughout the day that I abandoned myself and the calls of somebody else’s needs and then I would eat everything I could and then I would throw it up and it was like a release valve.”

You’re not saying what you need, you’re not living what you need and you’re turning everything inward,” Lyon explains. “So much of eating disorders is because you don’t speak up. Ultimately, her upbringing played a role in disordered eating, which she developed through her belief that she needed to be thin and stay quiet. Growing up in North Carolina, Lyon said that the South was a harsh place to be a young woman trying to figure out where to fit in society.

You have to uphold the values of your family and your church and everything, and I just felt that I want to say and do things, but I don’t want to bring shame on my family.” “I grew up a preacher’s daughter and you kind of live in a fishbowl. “I didn’t have very big dreams,” Lyon explains backstage at TheCurv圜on on Saturday. But the Claws actress tells Yahoo Lifestyle that she didn’t always intend to have a platform to speak about hot button issues or know that she could. Jenn Lyon is known for being outspoken about reproductive rights, toxic diet culture and movements like Time’s Up and #MeToo. Jenn Lyon addresses her southern upbringing when talking about developing disordered eating.

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