Snapshot · On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Camila had an eating disorder — bulimia — since high school, but confronted it most directly during her time on Riverdale, where costume requirements made her body insecurities acute.
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Jay asks how perfectionism showed up on the Riverdale set, and Camila opens up fully. The show was old-fashioned network TV at its most demanding: ten months a year, tight daily shooting schedules, zero tolerance for delays. There was no room for human error, and certainly no room for personal crises. If Camila was crying over something personal and got a knock on her trailer door — you're needed on set — her makeup was ruined, the schedule slipped, she became the reason production was behind. [1] — Camila Mendes "Riverdale wasn't just a long TV show — it was a grinding pressure cooker that gave Camila panic attacks and forced her to get prescribed lo…" 37:28 The pressure cooker produced panic attacks she'd never had before and hasn't had since. To keep functioning, she was prescribed lorazepam. She hated numbing herself but had no other option. Alongside this, she discloses bulimia she'd carried since high school — something the tight Veronica Lodge costumes made viscerally unavoidable. Feeling bloated and having to wear a midriff-baring miniskirt on camera triggered spirals. She had no space to feel her feelings on set, and the suppression made everything worse.
Camila's nutritionist slowly reintroduced carbs — starting with a single piece of toast — and the binge-purge cycle stopped. The deprivation was the engine of the disorder. When the forbidden food was no longer forbidden, the compulsion evaporated. She was effectively healed in about a year.
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