Zoe Kravitz when she was in Australia. Source: Instagram
HAVING famous parents may have opened doors for Zoë Kravitz but it also came with its own pressure.
“I had a really hard time when I was 16, 17, 18. I started with the eating disorder in high school” the 26-year-old daughter of actress Lisa Bonet and rocker Lenny Kravitz said in the April/May issue of Complex.
“Just [a hard time] loving myself.”
It’s understandable why she was having a hard time; beautiful, picture-perfect people, like her mother and father, along with all the models he tended to date, surrounded her.
Her disordered eating reared its head years later, when she played a character dealing with anorexia in the 2014 dramedy The Road Within.
Zoe Kravitz is a singer, actress and model. Source: Getty Images
Zoë’s parents were worried — her mother who burst into tears when she returned home from set one day — and they had good reason to be. Zoë ended up losing weight for the role, so much that her period was thrown off, her immune system shut down and her thyroid gland stopped working properly.
“You could see my rib cage. I was just trying to lose more weight for the film but I couldn’t see: You’re there. Stop. It was scary,” the Divergent actress told the magazine.
It wasn’t until after shooting had wrapped, and she was recovering, that she finally realised she couldn’t go on living like this, crediting an “otherworldly” experience she had on New Year’s Eve of 2013.
“I just felt it was different,” she said. “I don’t know … if a f**king spirit came over me and said: ‘You have to stop.’”
Zoe Kravitz at the 'Charles James: Beyond Fashion' Costume Institute Gala. Picture: Getty Source: Supplied
Zoë, who next stars in this years Mad Max: Fury Road, feels that the role, as hard as it may have been on her, came with something important for her.
“It made me not only confront my demons, but also realise and accept an insecurity that’s still there, and [that it’s] easy to fall back into that pattern,” she told Complex.
“I feel like something has left my body, like some part of me is gone now, something that was making me so insecure. And it feels amazing.”
Zoe Kravitz when she was in Australia. Source: Instagram
HAVING famous parents may have opened doors for Zoë Kravitz but it also came with its own pressure.
“I had a really hard time when I was 16, 17, 18. I started with the eating disorder in high school” the 26-year-old daughter of actress Lisa Bonet and rocker Lenny Kravitz said in the April/May issue of Complex.
“Just [a hard time] loving myself.”
It’s understandable why she was having a hard time; beautiful, picture-perfect people, like her mother and father, along with all the models he tended to date, surrounded her.
Her disordered eating reared its head years later, when she played a character dealing with anorexia in the 2014 dramedy The Road Within.
Zoe Kravitz is a singer, actress and model. Source: Getty Images
Zoë’s parents were worried — her mother who burst into tears when she returned home from set one day — and they had good reason to be. Zoë ended up losing weight for the role, so much that her period was thrown off, her immune system shut down and her thyroid gland stopped working properly.
“You could see my rib cage. I was just trying to lose more weight for the film but I couldn’t see: You’re there. Stop. It was scary,” the Divergent actress told the magazine.
It wasn’t until after shooting had wrapped, and she was recovering, that she finally realised she couldn’t go on living like this, crediting an “otherworldly” experience she had on New Year’s Eve of 2013.
“I just felt it was different,” she said. “I don’t know … if a f**king spirit came over me and said: ‘You have to stop.’”
Zoe Kravitz at the 'Charles James: Beyond Fashion' Costume Institute Gala. Picture: Getty Source: Supplied
Zoë, who next stars in this years Mad Max: Fury Road, feels that the role, as hard as it may have been on her, came with something important for her.
“It made me not only confront my demons, but also realise and accept an insecurity that’s still there, and [that it’s] easy to fall back into that pattern,” she told Complex.
“I feel like something has left my body, like some part of me is gone now, something that was making me so insecure. And it feels amazing.”
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