'I was like, 'Let me see how skinny I can get, because maybe then they'll put out an album,'' the singer said in an interview with Uproxx
is opening up about body image, revealing in a lengthy and candid interview that she was put on a diet where she only ate 500-calorie a day when she was just 18 years old.
JoJo said that she knew she was healthy but was restricted to only 500 calories a day nonetheless. According to Health.gov, an 18-year-old girl living an active lifestyle should consume at leastinterview. “‘I actually look like a healthy girl who eats and is active. And I don’t think this is about my health. I think that you want me to be really skinny.'”
“I was like, ‘Let me see how skinny I can get, because maybe then they’ll put out an album. Maybe I’m just so disgusting that no one wants to see me in a video and they can’t even look at me,'” JoJo recalled thinking. “That’s really what I thought.”JoJo said that her experience speaks to a larger problem within the music industry.
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