Rebel reportedly writes that her past eating habits stemmed from witnessing her allegedly abusive late father, who died in 2013, lash out. Describing one specific incident with him, the actor claims that he hit her as a child.
“‘I’m going to choke you and kill you if you say one more thing, Melanie,'” Rebel, who was born Melanie before legally changing her name in 2002, claims her father told her years ago. “‘I’m going to throttle you.'”
“In those moments when I was worried or scared, I turned to food,” she writes. “I think because I saw my mum do it. Everybody has a coping mechanism — eating is mine.”
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