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Evanna Lynch on her battle with anorexia: 'I wanted to be open about it'

Evanna Lynch has opened up on overcoming her battle with anorexia.

The Harry Potter actress began suffering from the eating disorder when she was just 11 years old and hopes to help others by speaking out on the condition.

The Louth native believes it was her frank honesty on the subject that helped her to heal.

“I think it’s because I felt like I was being dishonest by omission,” she told the Sunday World Magazine.

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Health: Evanna has opened up on overcoming anorexia | JASON CLARKE

“I had talked about how I had a relationship with JK Rowling, writing to her beforehand, that it meant a lot to me.

“People would ask: ‘Why did she write to you?’ And it was because I was sick, and I was asking for advice, and telling her how much her books had helped me, and that was what touched her.

“I started talking about it for that reason, because I wanted to be open. It really wasn’t planned, and I didn’t realise how much attention it would get.”

The 24-year-old revealed she has now moved past her struggles with food.

“I didn’t anticipate this, but it helped me get distance from it. Talking about it makes you reflect on it, and it makes you say: ‘that is the past’.

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Honest: Being open about the eating disorder helped Evanna to recover

“It’s very hard to let go of an eating disorder, to say: ‘I’m enough, I don’t need that any more. I’m past that’.

“When people started writing to me, saying: ‘That really helped me’, it really empowered me, it made me think: ‘This is way cooler than being the skinniest person in the room’.

Although she has moved on from her illness, Evanna insisted she still struggles with things from time to time.

“Sometimes it’s a bit daunting. I still have struggles, problems and I don’t want people to think I’ve got it all figured out.

“But it keeps me on track, I think, to have talked about it and to have people who see me as having helped them.

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