Snow was not yet a teenager when she began acting on "Guiding Light." She says, "I remember looking around at all these women who were on the soap opera who were working out and dieting." Reacting to the women around her, Snow went on a diet, which she says she took "to the extreme," at one point eating only pineapple for two months.
Snow was able to lose 10 pounds and the compliments she received pushed her to keep dieting. She told MTVU.com, "It kind of progressed into this thing where I needed to always be dieting and losing weight and more weight. It became my life and I didn't have any friends and this was definitely my best friend and I held on to it really tight."
Brittany's anorexia eventually progressed until she weighed only 85 pounds at 15. "I knew that was a really low number and I knew that my hair was falling out and I had really weird skin," she admits. "My face looked really weird and I was getting this fuzz on my face and I was always cold – always to the point of uncontrollably shaking. I was more scared that 85 lbs. wasn't good enough. I wanted to be lower."
The "American Dreams" star, who was weighing herself 10 to 15 times daily, started to cut herself. She explains, "I would look at the scars and what I had done to myself and that would convince me not to eat…I also was crying for attention and I also really wanted someone to see my scars and help me and give me a hug."
Snow entered a rehab program at 19 and has her problem under control, "but the eating stuff was still really hard to deal with," she says. "It's still a struggle."
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