Musician Bebe Rexha has opened up about the pressure she was put under to lose weight at the beginning of her career.
The star appears on the upcoming cover of Cosmopolitan, and revealed that she was pressured to lose over a stone and a half, despite already being a healthy weight for her height.
“When I first got signed, the label said, ‘Are you ready to get in boot-camp shape?’” she told the mag.
She claims that the label wanted her to shrink from a healthy 9 stone to 7 and a half stone.
“They wanted me to lose 20lb. Back then I was so small, I was only 130lb.”
The star confessed the extremes she felt pushed to in order to lose weight: “It f*cked me up. I was so cold all the time. I would starve myself before filming a music video.”
Bebe described how one creative director would make her work out multiple times a day, and comment on her weight loss.
“She’d sit opposite me at the dinner table and say, ‘You’re not losing enough,'” Bebe said.
“All I was eating was salad.”
