On The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Season 4, Layla Taylor opened up about her eating disorder.
While she’s “still seeking treatment” at an out-patient facility, Layla realized she needed help when she started feeling the “side effects” of her drastic weight loss.
Layla opened up about her eating disorder on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Season 4
“It’s still going to be a battle,” Layla told Us Weekly. “What people don’t see is that an eating disorder [doesn’t just go] away. It’s something that I’ve struggled with since I was a little girl … I probably always will. But I feel like I’m doing better, and I’m in a little bit of a better place.”
Furthermore, “You see that somebody’s losing weight,” she added, but you don’t see the price they’re paying with their health. “You don’t see that it hurts for them to lay down at night because their joints hurt … My hair is falling out and my nails are breaking off every day … I couldn’t sleep through the night, and I was exhausted all the time.”
“Obviously, not eating all day, you’re going to get hunger cues,” she continued. “The GLP-1 was a way to … make an eating disorder more easy. It was just like an unhealthy crutch.”
Finally, Layla realized that she needed to get healthy for the two young sons she shares with her ex-husband. “At the end of the day, I want to live a long life so I can see my babies grow old and have babies and live their life,” she confessed. “I can’t do that if I’m dead.” In addition, she’s chosen to be single for a bit to focus on her sons.
Though she’s no longer using GLP-1, she admitted, “I still struggle with the body image issues, and that’s always going to be a problem. But at least I’m trying to manage it and not be on something that I knew was enabling it.”
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Season 4 is now streaming on Hulu.
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