The Family Stone star would eat 20,000 calories a day, only to throw up, saying, “Typical dinner was a bucket of chicken, several orders of fries with blue cheese and ketchup, a couple TV dinners, a quart of soda, pounds of candy, a whole cake and three banana cream pies.”
Keaton eventually got into recovery for her eating disorder.
“Somebody mentioned that I seemed to have some mental issues, so I went to an analyst,” she said. “I would go five days a week.”
And while she admitted to initially lying to her specialist, Keaton—who adopted daughter Dexter, 29, and son Duke, 25, in her 50s—went on to get candid about her struggles.
“I have nothing to hide. It’s not relevant, but for me it feels good,” she wrote in her 2011 book Then Again, per the NY Daily News. “I think I’m a sister to all the rest of the women, and I’m sure men as well, who have had some kind of eating disorder, and I’m a part of the team.”
