Fans are sending Taylor Swift their love and support after she revealed that she used to suffer from an eating disorder. According to Variety, the singer opened up about her body issues in her upcoming Netflix documentary, Miss Americana.

The outlet reports that in one scene of the film, a montage of nasty comments and headlines about the singer flashed across the screen. Taylor then admitted, “It’s not good for me to see pictures of myself every day.”

Although she said “it’s only happened a few times, and I’m not in any way proud of it,” the “Look What You Made Me Do” songstress revealed that there have been times in the past when she’s seen “a picture of me where I feel like I looked like my tummy was too big, or someone said that I looked pregnant … and that’ll just trigger me to just starve a little bit — just stop eating.”

She explained that if anyone expressed concern, she’d say, “What are you talking about? Of course I eat … I exercise a lot.”

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“If you’re thin enough, then you don’t have that a** that everybody wants,” she continued in the movie. “But if you have enough weight on you to have an a**, your stomach isn’t flat enough. It’s all just f**king impossible.”

Taylor also explained that her “under-eating” negatively impacted her stamina on tour.

“I thought that I was supposed to feel like I was going to pass out at the end of a show, or in the middle of it,” she said. “Now I realize, no, if you eat food, have energy, get stronger, you can do all these shows and not feel [exhausted].”

The 30-year-old admitted to the outlet that opening up about her insecurities in the documentary was definitely hard for her.

“I didn’t know if I was going to feel comfortable with talking about body image and talking about the stuff I’ve gone through in terms of how unhealthy that’s been for me — my relationship with food and all that over the years,” she told them. “But the way that Lana [Wilson, the film’s director] tells the story, it really makes sense. I’m not as articulate as I should be about this topic because there are so many people who could talk about it in a better way. But all I know is my own experience. And my relationship with food was exactly the same psychology that I applied to everything else in my life: If I was given a pat on the head, I registered that as good. If I was given a punishment, I registered that as bad.”

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The blonde beauty also got real about how being skyrocketed into fame at such a young age affected her.

“I remember how, when I was 18, that was the first time I was on the cover of a magazine,” she continued. “And the headline was like ‘Pregnant at 18?’ And it was because I had worn something that made my lower stomach look not flat. So I just registered that as a punishment. And then I’d walk into a photo shoot and be in the dressing room and somebody who worked at a magazine would say, ‘Oh, wow, this is so amazing that you can fit into the sample sizes. Usually we have to make alterations to the dresses, but we can take them right off the runway and put them on you!’ And I looked at that as a pat on the head. You register that enough times, and you just start to accommodate everything towards praise and punishment, including your own body. I think I’ve never really wanted to talk about that before, and I’m pretty uncomfortable talking about it now. But in the context of every other thing that I was doing or not doing in my life, I think it makes sense [to have it in the film].”

But now, Taylor said that she doesn’t care what people think about her body, and that she’s confident with “the fact that I’m a size 6 instead of a size double-zero.”

“You can decide whose opinions matter more and whose opinions you put more weight on. I think that is really part of growing up, if you’re going to do it right. That’s part of hoping to find some sort of maturity and balance in your life,” she added. “I don’t expect anyone with a pop career to learn how to do that within the first 10 years. And I know that there’s a lot of bad stuff that’s gone on recently, a lot of really hard stuff my family is going through, and a lot of opposition and feeling pressure or suppression of one kind or another. But I am actually really happy. Because I pick and choose now, for the most part, what I care deeply about. And I think that’s made a huge difference.”

Miss Americana premieres on Netflix on January 31, 2020.

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