Usually we have to make alterations to the dresses, but we can take them right off the runway and put them on you!’ And I looked at that as a pat on the head. And then I’d walk into a photo shoot and be in the dressing room and somebody who worked at a magazine would say, ‘Oh, wow, this is so amazing that you can fit into the sample sizes. So I just registered that as a punishment. “And the headline was like ‘Pregnant at 18?’ And it was because I had worn something that made my lower stomach look not flat. “I remember how, when I was 18, that was the first time I was on the cover of a magazine,” she says. In the quiet of a hotel suite, she goes into greater detail on how formative an effect that one early tabloid torpedo had on her. If I was given a punishment, I registered that as bad.” And my relationship with food was exactly the same psychology that I applied to everything else in my life: If I was given a pat on the head, I registered that as good. I’m not as articulate as I should be about this topic because there are so many people who could talk about it in a better way. “But the way that Lana (Wilson, the film’s director) tells the story, it really makes sense. “I didn’t know if I was going to feel comfortable with talking about body image and talking about the stuff I’ve gone through in terms of how unhealthy that’s been for me - my relationship with food and all that over the years,” she tells Variety. Swift elaborated on what she’s gone through with that in her interview with Variety for this week’s cover story, saying that it was difficult for her to speak up about it for the documentary. In one of the most revealing and surprising segments of the Netflix film, Swift talks for several minutes about having struggled in the past with an eating disorder.Īfter being pictured facing a phalanx of photographers after she emerges from her front door, Swift is heard in voiceover saying that “it’s not good for me to see pictures of myself every day.” Although she says “it’s only happened a few times, and I’m not in any way proud of it,” Swift admits there have been times in the past when she’s seen “a picture of me where I feel like I looked like my tummy was too big, or… someone said that I looked pregnant … and that’ll just trigger me to just starve a little bit - just stop eating.” It bothers me.”Īs it turns out, it eventually bothered Swift, too. One of the less nasty remarks: “She’s too skinny.
In the new Taylor Swift documentary, “ Miss Americana,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival Thursday night, there’s a montage of derogatory commentary about the singer that has appeared on cable shows over the years.
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