Former Love Island star Erin Barnett has begged fans for help as she has an ‘unhealthy obsession’ with her weight and is getting on a scale three times a day.
The 24-year-old shared a number of troubling Instagram Stories on Saturday in which she confessed that she has been consumed with concerns about her body, and admitted her weight had previously dropped to just 48 kilos.
In a video filmed in a sauna, she said at length: ‘It’s driving me insane. All my clothes fit me the same.
Help wanted: In a series of Instagram Stories shared on the weekend, Love Island star Erin Barnett (pictured) begged fans for help as she has an ‘unhealthy obsession’ with her weight
‘But if I don’t exercise for one day, the whole day I will criticize myself on why I’m gross and I should feel ashamed for not exercising. I look at myself some days and think yuck, and other days it’s like damn.’
She added that she felt guilty over having toast with her eggs: ‘This mind set is driving me insane.
‘I am eating better now than I was when I was 48 kilos. But I am weighing myself twice a day, three times a day. I weigh myself after I do a poo. I am hating this mind set,’ she said emphatically.
She said: ‘If I don’t exercise for one day, the whole day I will criticize myself on why I’m gross and I should feel ashamed for not exercising. I look at myself some days and think yuck’
Troubled: ‘I am eating better now than I was when I was 48 kilos. But I am weighing myself twice a day, three times a day. I weigh myself after I do a poo. I am hating this mind set,’ she said emphatically
Self image: In other video clips posted over the weekend, Erin posed in a mirror, showing fans her ‘rolls’ and complaining that she only looked good from certain angles
Reaching out to her fans, Erin pleaded: ‘I know that is a very bad way to be to yourself. But I can help it. I need help.
‘I need someone out there who has gone through the same stuff as me. Someone teach me to love the body that I am in.’
Erin confessed that while she embraces a positive image on social media, she is secretly not feeling great about herself.
‘I give out all this positivity on Instagram, but I am not having a great day about my body. And I am starving… It’s not self love at all,’ she admitted.
Reaching out to her fans, Erin pleaded: ‘I know that is a very bad way to be to yourself. But I can help it. I need help. I need someone out there who has gone through the same stuff as me. Someone teach me to love the body that I am in’
Pain: Erin confessed that while she embraces a positive image on social media, she is secretly not feeling great about herself. ‘I give out all this positivity on Instagram, but I am not having a great day about my body. And I am starving… It’s not self love at all,’ she admitted
Near tearful, Erin pleaded for her fans to come together and help her, begging: ‘Help me be positive! Help me help myself’.
In other video clips posted over the weekend, Erin posed in a mirror, showing fans her ‘rolls’ and complaining that she only looked good from certain angles.
The former reality star has discussed her issues in the past, telling OK! magazine in 2018 that she ‘starved’ herself in order to lose 5kg so she could reach her goal weight of 49kg before appearing on Love Island.
‘I’ve just been starving myself, not eating, then binge eating, then starving. I can’t eat healthy, it’s too much effort,’ the Melbourne nurse said.
Slim: The former reality star has discussed her issues in the past, telling OK! magazine in 2018 that she ‘starved’ herself in order to lose 5kg so she could reach her goal weight of 49kg before appearing on Love Island. Pictured in 2018
Confession: ‘I’ve just been starving myself, not eating, then binge eating, then starving… Thank god I’ve lost 5kg, so I’m down to 49kg. It’s all about the bikini on this show’ she said. Erin is pictured with her Love Island partner Eden Dally. They split in September 2018
She added: ‘Thank god I’ve lost 5kg, so I’m down to 49kg. It’s all about the bikini on this show and, in all honesty, I don’t know how people diet.’
‘I binge mainly on lollies, and salt and vinegar chips,’ she added.
At the time, a Channel Nine spokesperson clarified that Erin’s comments to OK! were made in jest and she does not have any issues with her eating.
Australians experiencing eating disorders can find support from The Butterfly Foundation. National helpline: 1800 33 4673
Comment: At the time, a Channel Nine spokesperson clarified that Erin’s comments to OK! were made in jest and she does not have any issues with her eating