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Diane Keaton’s four-year battle with bulimia in her twenties saw her sneak away from dates with Woody Allen to secretly binge 20,000 calories a day
Behind her wit, charm, and signature bowler hats, Diane Keaton quietly fought a battle that nearly consumed her.
Long before becoming an Oscar-winning icon and Hollywood’s beloved eccentric, she endured a painful four-year struggle with bulimia, a chapter she would later describe as “the lowest point in my life.”
The acclaimed actress, who passed away at the age of 79, first revealed the secret she’d kept for decades in her 2011 memoir Then Again.
In it, she wrote with raw honesty about her eating disorder, reflecting, “I think I’m a sister to all the rest of the women, and men as well, who have had some kind of eating disorder. I’m a part of the team.”
Her battle began at just 22, when she was offered the lead role in the Broadway production of Hair in 1968, on the condition that she lose ten pounds.
What started as professional pressure soon spiraled into an obsession.
Through years of therapy, Keaton later came to understand that her body insecurities had been festering long before that fateful role.
As a teenager, she’d gone to great lengths to alter her appearance.
“At 14, I used to sleep with hair grips on my nose hoping to straighten out a bump,” she once admitted.
"Even her trademark oversized suits and hats, which became a defining part of her style, were adopted, she said, “to hide my body.”
While these quirks became part of her on-screen charm, her battle with bulimia marked the darkest chapter of her life.
In Then Again, a book she co-wrote with her mother Dorothy Hall, the two explored the toll her disorder had taken on their family.
Dorothy wrote in her diary that she often worried about her daughter’s strange relationship with food, “always chewing a big mouthful or sucking candy”, while wondering, “I wish I knew how she stays so thin.”
Keaton, ever self-aware, took full responsibility. She refused to blame anyone, not even the director of Hair who demanded she slim down.
After hearing another actress talk about inducing vomiting to stay thin, Keaton said she “quickly became a master of hiding.”
At the height of her illness, she was consuming up to 20,000 calories a day, then purging. Breakfast could include a dozen muffins, three fried eggs, bacon, pancakes, and chocolate milk.
Lunch might be three buttered steaks with baked potatoes, followed by apple pie and chocolate sundaes.
Dinners, she admitted, could escalate into “a bucket of chicken, several orders of fries with blue cheese and ketchup, a couple of TV dinners, a quart of soda, pounds of candy, a whole cake, and three banana cream pies.”
The cycle left her body ravaged, low blood pressure, heartburn, and more than two dozen cavities, but her spirit, too, was slowly breaking.
It was her then-partner, filmmaker Woody Allen, who unwittingly steered her toward recovery.
Though unaware of her eating disorder, Allen encouraged her to seek therapy, a practice he passionately believed in.
Keaton soon began seeing a psychiatrist five days a week for 18 months.
Years later, speaking on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, she recalled how therapy helped her reclaim her sense of self.
“One day, I just realized I didn’t want to binge anymore,” she said. “Because I talked. I spoke it out. I said my thoughts and feelings.
"And I feel like, once you do that, you own it. To keep secrets doesn’t help you at all.”
Still, recovery didn’t mean the end of her compulsive tendencies.
Keaton openly acknowledged transferring her obsessions to other passions, collecting hats, fashion clippings, and photographs.
“I have about 60 scrapbooks of pictures I’ve cut out of magazines,” she once revealed. “Fashion, bedrooms, portraits, all of it.”
She later described herself as “an addict in recovery,” adding, “I’ll always be an addict. I have an addictive nature to me.”
Even in her later years, Keaton admitted that insecurity lingered. “I don’t think it gets easier as you get older,” she mused in a 2014 interview.
“It gets more pressing, because it’s really about death. How do you approach that part of your life? Nobody wants that.”
