says Camila Mendes, 24, who stars in the hit show Riverdale. “I’m open and upfront. I don’t play games.” In October 2017, the actor took to Instagram to share her struggles with an eating disorder and early 2018, she announced that she was done with dieting. “It just felt so necessary for me to speak about those things,” Camila says. “I realised that I have this platform, and young women and men who look up to me, and there is a tremendous power to do something positive with it. It was definitely a very vulnerable thing to put that out there to almost 12 million people on social media. But that’s who I am. That’s me being authentically myself.”
The star, who now works with Project Heal, a nonprofit-making organisation that…
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Shape Singapore (Digital) - 1 Issue, January - February 2019