‘SLOMW’ star Layla Taylor recalls ‘weird’ experience that may have triggered her eating disorder

“Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” prima Layla Taylor revealed a “weird” acquisition pinch chap models that whitethorn person triggered her eating disorder that she’s struggled pinch for years.

“I’ve had weird experiences before,” Taylor prefaced nan communicative while chatting pinch Page Six’s “Virtual Reali-Tea” hosts Evan Real and Danny Murphy.

“In a show that I walked in, I was hanging retired pinch immoderate of nan models successful nan greeting while we were getting our glitter done, and I was like, ‘Does anyone want thing from Starbucks? I’m gonna DoorDash immoderate food.’”

“This was earlier my eating upset started to get bad again,” she noted. “And each nan girls were like, ‘No, we don’t eat earlier shows.’”

Taylor shared that nan antagonistic acquisition reinforced her perceptions of nan modeling manufacture that “you person to beryllium bony thin” and “not eat.”

The reality TV prima besides opened up astir nan “really hard” rejection she faced from Ford Models — which was shown connected Season 4 of nan Hulu show.

“That rejection is personification physically looking astatine you and saying no. That’s evidently very hard, particularly for personification for illustration myself who deals pinch specified bad assemblage image issues and assurance issues to statesman with.”

Now, Taylor is capable to look backmost astatine nan acquisition arsenic a “blessing successful disguise” because she has since signed pinch a modeling agency that “feels for illustration home” to her.

“Especially pinch what I woody pinch internally. I needed an agency that was going to beryllium friends complete business and I consciousness for illustration that’s what I found,” she explained.

In fact, nan model’s 30-piece postulation pinch Showpo, “Becoming by Layla Taylor,” launched connected Monday and Taylor described it arsenic “choosing yourself, complete and complete again.”

Last month, Taylor entered treatment for her “exhausting” eating upset and stopped taking GLP-1 weight nonaccomplishment medication.

“For nan past 2 years, I’ve been struggling silently pinch an eating upset I believed I had near down successful precocious school,” nan 25-year-old wrote via Instagram.

“Far earlier I touched [GLP-1 medications] I’ve had my struggles. It’s been lonely and exhausting, fighting a conflict successful my ain encephalon while trying to show up for illustration everything is okay and person comments regular connected my body.”

While calling her betterment “messy and acold from linear,” Taylor admitted that she’s had bully days and bad days successful her journey.

“I’m still learning really to take self-love complete self-criticism,” she wrote. “Even this video seeing my assemblage side-by-side is triggering; But I’m still fighting — not conscionable for me, but because my boys merit a healthy, coming mom.”

If you aliases personification you cognize suffers from an eating disorder, call the free ANAD helpline at 1-888-375-7767.