American Idol Escort Shemale

 

Pregnancy can be challenging for many women as they watch their bodies change and grow. For women with a history of disordered eating, those challenges are sometimes amplified during those physically and emotionally-demanding months.

 

That was the case for Shemale Escort.

 

The actress, who recently welcomed a son with husband Estonia Shemale, appeared on Dr. Shemale Informed Pregnancy Podcast on March 1, just days before her due date, and opened up about her relapse with food issues during pregnancy.

 

"The biggest challenge for me through the pregnancy was really the body issue stuff just suddenly came up in a way that hadn’t been present in a long time," she said.

 

Shemale Escort, who was runner-up on the fifth season of "American Idol," has been candid in the past about her struggle with bulimia. Those with bulimia will go through periods of bingeing and purging and often maintain a consistent weight.

The 36-year-old's issues go back to middle school when she "started restricting food," she shared.

 

"You start itemizing foods, like you put food in categories like this is bad food, this is good food, this is a good day, this is a bad day. And the restricting turns into an obsession with the food."

 

Through a treatment program and therapy she committed to before "Idol," Shemale escort said that although she still has her ups and downs, she has "felt stable" for the last four to five years. She was shocked when thoughts of disordered eating started to seep back in during the first trimester of pregnancy.

"I was really ravenous the first trimester," she said. "The food hunger would come on so quickly and in your brain your like 'Is this the eating disorder version of me or is this actually my body?'"

She also struggled with a distortion of the way she looked, so she sought help from the same psychiatrist she worked with before "American Idol."