American Idol judge suffered from eating disorder

Kara DioGuardi is by far the most physically attractive person on American Idol’s judge’s panel. Which is why I was surprised to learn that she once suffered from an eating disorder.

In an interview with Extra TV, DioGuardi said she used to be a binge eater.  “I had kind of a binge eating disorder where instead of dealing with my emotions, I would stuff them down with food.  I actually went into a treatment center for it.  It was definitely that excess eating to kind of just stuff all the emotions down.  I really was a creative kid who didn’t know she was creative and didn’t have those outlets because I was always afraid to join the theater group and not perform.”

Looking at her whenever she’s on American Idol, I never would have knows she had an eating problem. She seems to have overcame it well.

Tim Henley