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Kesha on pressure to be skinny: 'There were always people waiting to share pictures of me looking bad'

Pop sensation Kesha has revealed that the pressure to be skinny was, at one point, so overwhelming that she felt paranoid to leave her house in fear that a someone would be waiting to catch her looking 'terrible' so they could sell photos to the media and tear her down. 

Speaking to Elle magazine in the UK, the 'Timber' songstress explained that there is always someone waiting for you to crumble because exploiting that might get them ahead, which is a horrible way to behave and an even worse rule to exist under:

"I felt like people were always lurking, trying to take pictures of me with the intention of putting them up online or printing them in magazines and making me look terrible. I became scared to go in public, or even use the internet. I may have been paranoid, but I also saw and heard enough hateful things to fuel that paranoia."

In the same interview, Kesha confessed that she knew she had to seek treatment for an eating disorder when she began 'abusing her body' and finding that just became normal behaviour for her:

"I’ve always tried to be a crusader for loving yourself, but I’d been finding it harder and harder to do personally. I felt like part of my job was to be as skinny as possible, and to make that happen, I had been abusing my body. I just wasn’t giving it the energy it needed to keep me healthy and strong.”

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Watch footage from her Teen Vogue photoshoot here: