Former kids TV presenter, Fearne Cotton, has admitted she’s annoyed the vegan community after being forced to overhaul her diet due to a ‘severe eating disorder’ in her twenties
Fearne Cotton has announced a huge lifestyle change, which has left some of her fans fuming.
The mum-of-two, 44, has been a vegan for years, but says she has been forced to start introducing eggs and cheese back into her diet after a “pretty severe eating disorder” in her twenties means she needs to “remain flexible” with what she eats.
Admitting her vegan followers, were “f****d off” with her latest lifestyle choice, Fearne, whose cookbook, Happy Vegan, was a huge success, insisted she ‘gets it’, but has been left with no other choice. Taking to Instagram, filming herself in her car, she shared: “Now this video is very much contradicting the whole post I did about my new book, Likeable, and not caring whether people like me or not but, and there’s obviously a need for me to stop explaining myself, but I’m a work in progress so here goes…
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“Some people, and I totally get it, vegans out there are f***** off that I’m eating eggs and cheese again. I mean I am going to explain myself, I eat them infrequently, I eat still mainly a plant-based diet. It’s more like if I’m out or when I was in Spain last summer.”
Insisting she needs to stay “flexible with food” after recovering from an eating disorder, she continued: “And also as someone who had a pretty severe eating disorder in my 20s I have to remain flexible with food. That is a big one for me so that I don’t become too regimented.” The TV star continued: “So although it doesn’t matter really whether people like that I’m vegan or not. I’m not in control of anyone else. I’m not in control of other vegans, meat eaters. I am just a single person doing my thing and as I said I will continue to eat mainly a plant-based diet.”
Fearne, who previously admitted she thought she’d ‘never recover’ from suffering from bulimia in a poignant post, signed off saying ‘you can’t please everyone’, concluding: “But, yeah, case in point that you cannot please everyone. You really can’t. And not everyone’s going to like you or your decisions and these are very healthy lessons for me to continue learning.”
The TV presenter urged fans to “go easy” on themselves as she opened up about her bulimia struggle and battle with depression on World Mental Health Day in 2023. At her lowest ebb, Fearne, who split from husband, Jesse Wood, in 2024, said she never thought she’d recover or that she’d “feel joy again” – but that she was then in a much better place.
Sharing a video of herself speaking about mental health on Instagram, Fearne said: “For those of you that feel unwell at the moment, it is absolutely possible to heal and experience a different mindset.
“Did I think in the depths of bulimia that I would recover? Nope. Did I think during a big depressive episode that I would feel joy again? Nope.
“But I have recovered and I do experience joy. I have to remind myself of this still as anxiety can easier take hold and send me into obsessive thought patterns.”
If you’re worried about your health or the health of somebody else, you can contact SEED eating disorder support service on 01482 718130 or on their website, _here.
Source: Mirror
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