Interview With Camila Mendes

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Riverdale actress Camila Alves visited this weekend the third annual fitness and health fair organized by Shape magazine in Los Angeles where she took the opportunity to speak with her fans about her campaign against diets and how she overcame her problems with food..

I feel tremendously insecure with my belly. When they try on clothes, I always try to avoid clothes that show my navel. I am trying to overcome it, but at the moment I am taking it step by step,”admitted the young woman of Brazilian origin who is about to turn 24.

“The way I deal with my own insecurities is to get them out. […] The more you hide, the more you insinuate that you have something to be ashamed of,”she acknowledged in the interview that she was open to questions from the public who came to see her.

Unfortunately, like many teenage girls, Mendes also had a time when she faced an eating disorder and took advantage of this moment to share her experience and what made her decide to change.

“When I was in high school I had an eating disorder that came back when I went to college and also [when I started working] in Riverdale. I started seeing a psychologist and a nutritionist and it was the first time that I really admitted that I had a problem and wanted to fix it.”

Maybe that's why he decided not to do more diets, he doesn't even believe in them. "Dieting is not realistic, it doesn't make you [stay] healthier, it just confuses your body."

In fact, the actress has become an activist against diets and promotes a campaign on her social networks under the hashtag “done with dieting”, which delves further into the reasons that led her to make that decision..

“At some point in my life I allowed my obsession with being thin and refused to leave room in my mind for other things. […] My passion for cinema, education, music, etc. all my interests disappeared because of the desire to be thin, and [that] made me miserable. I no longer believe the idea that there is a slimmer, happier version of myself after all this tireless effort. Your body type is subject to your genes and although eating nutritious food and exercising will make you healthier, it will not necessarily make you slimmer […] a healthy body is the ideal body type and that is seen differently in each person".