Gok Wan: 'Eating disorders are a painful, dark, horrible, hideous places to live in'

GOK WANT TALKS ABOUT OPERA MUSIC HELPING HIS ANXIETY AND OPENS UP ABOUT HAVING AN EATING DISORDER

We love Gok for making us feel body confident and giving us the best fashion advice. But we saw another side to him today as he talk about how opera music has changed his life and helps him deal with anxiety.

'I use music to heal me all the time,' Gok says. 'It calms my anxiety which I have always had. Opera can really lift me up and make me go out and partying all night or relax me down. I can't sleep without listening to classical music.'

'Loose Women the opera would be amazing - we should write it!' Gok added - we love this idea!

Gok, who experienced an eating disorder when he was young, went on to talk about children who may be displaying signs of Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, and his personal experience of having one, saying, 'Eating disorders are inherent in a lot of people and they lay dormant, a lot of people don’t respond to them. I was quite heavily respondent to mine.'

'They’re painful, dark, horrible, hideous places to live in,' Gok added.

'It’s about education. It’s about having a healthy relationship with food, about eating meals at home and talking freely about it [food]. You’ve got to teach children as young as 9 and as young as 6 that actually food is fuel. It’s about health.'

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