During the worst of her struggle with bulimia, Dianne Buswell’s capacity to move and dance was ‘taken away’, she confessed.
The 33-year-old Strictly Come Dancing professional joined the BBC ballroom competition for the first time in 2017, paired with Reverend Richard Coles.
The next season, she was paired with YouTube celebrity Joe Sugg, and the third-placed dance duo began dating and have been together ever since.
Dianne previously disclosed that she was taken to the hospital in her early 20s as a result of excessive exercise and missing meals.
She claimed at the time that her struggle with bulimia “threatened her career” and that she suffered from tremendous weariness and bouts of fatigue.
Today, the dancer has revealed more about her fight with an eating condition, which resulted in occasional fainting.
‘One thing that I really realised when I wasn’t well, is how much movement made me happy,’ she told Lorraine Kelly.
‘How good that was for my mental health. It got taken away from me.’
She commented: ‘My body wasn’t able to produce what I wanted. It really got me down. Movement is something I need to keep myself happy.’
On Lorraine, Dianne discussed her new book, Move Yourself Happy: 21 Days to Make Joyful Exercise a Habit.
Bulimia is the general term for the eating disorder bulimia nervosa, which is characterised by binge eating and excessive purging to prevent weight gain.
Last year, Dianne confessed on Freeze the Fear, a BBC celebrity challenge programme, how it affected her life and work.
‘I worked on a cruise ship where we got weighed every week. I’d have spinach and would watch the other girls and they would be the same – you just wouldn’t eat.’
‘I went through one point where I just wouldn’t eat. And if I did have some food, I would make myself sick because I wouldn’t want it in me.’
Dianne and her partner Tyler West were the seventh pair to be eliminated during the 2022 season of Strictly Come Dancing.
The winner of last year’s tournament was Hamza Yassin and his dance partner Jowita Przystal, who received the most votes in the final.
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Source My Celebrity Life.
