Zayn Malik has revealed he was struggling with an eating disorder while in One Direction.
The singer has been very open about his issues with anxiety since leaving One Direction in 2015, and now he has admitted he has been struggling with an eating disorder.
In new segments from his debut autobiography title Zayn, which have been released by The Sun, the singer said he was so ill, especially towards the end.
“When I look back at images of myself from around November 2014, before the final tour, I can see how ill I was.
Ill: Zayn said he struggled with an eating disorder
“Something I’ve never talked about in public before, but which I have come to terms with since leaving the band, is that I was suffering from an eating disorder,” he explained.
“It wasn’t as though I had any concerns about my weight or anything like that, I’d just go for days – sometimes two or three days straight – without eating anything at all. It got quite serious, although at the time I didn’t recognise it for what it was.
“I think it was about control. I didn’t feel like I had control over anything else in my life, but food was something I could control, so I did.
Control: Zayn reveals all in his new book
“I had lost so much weight I had become ill. The workload and the pace of life on the road put together with the pressures and strains of everything going on within the band had badly affected my eating habits.”
The autobiography release comes just weeks after Little Mix’s book dropped – in which Zayn’s ex fiance Perry Edwards speaks openly about the heart ache she suffered when he dumped her over text.
Zayn only mentions Perry three times in his book, and just says they went through a “rough patch”.
