Girls' Zosia Mamet Reveals Eating Disorder Struggles: 'I Didn't Care If I Died'

Zosia Mamet has opened up about her struggles with an eating disorder in this very revealing essay for Glamour‘s latest issue.

“I was told I was fat for the first time when I was eight,” the 26-year-old Girls star wrote for the magazine. “I’m not fat; I’ve never been fat. But ever since then, there has been a monster in my brain that tells me I am�”that convinces me my clothes don’t fit or that I’ve eaten too much. At times it has forced me to starve myself, to run extra miles, to abuse my body. As a teenager I used to stand in front of the refrigerator late at night star­ing into that white fluorescent light, debilitated by the war raging inside me: whether to give in to the pitted hunger in my stomach or close the door and go back to bed. I would stand there for hours, opening and closing the door, taking out a piece of food then putting it back in; taking it out, putting it in my mouth, and then spitting it into the garbage. I was only 17, living in misery, waiting to die.”

“My dad [playwright David Mamet] eventually got me into treatment,” she recounted. “He came home one night from a party, took me by the shoulders, and said, ‘You’re not allowed to die.’ It was the first time I realized this wasn’t all about me. I didn’t care if I died, but my family did. That’s the thing about these kinds of disorders: They’re consuming; they make you egocentric; they’re all you can see,” Zosia continued.

Thankfully, Zosia revealed that today she is feeling good.

Read her entire column over at Glamour.com.