Half Baked Harvest’s Tieghan Gerard Is Being Treated for Anxiety, Says It Leads Her to Not Eat.Photo:Mike Vitelli/BFA.com/Shutterstock
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Tieghan Gerardopened up about her mental health struggles.
She told the newspaper that she does not have an eating disorder. She said she has suffered chronic social and separation anxiety, and that she is being treated for those “privately.” The recipe developer revealed that to cope she sometimes leans into long work hours, which leads her to forget to sleep and eat.
Her struggle with anxiety has kept her living close to family in Colorado, where she writes and photographs for her blog and cookbooks, since she was 14, according toNYT. She dropped out of school in Los Angeles due to homesickness, the outlet added.
Her mother, Jen Gerard, who helms the business side of her daughter’s brand, also spoke toNYTabout the concern over Tieghan’s weight.“It’s unfortunate that people feel entitled to comment on someone being underweight, when they would never do that if the person was overweight,” said Jen.
Half Baked Harvest’s Tieghan Gerard Is Being Treated for Anxiety, Says It Leads Her to Not Eat.halfbakedharvest/Instagram
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“It is so sad and at first it killed me,” Gerard added.
Half Baked Harvest’s Tieghan Gerard Is Being Treated for Anxiety, Says It Leads Her to Not Eat.Jamie McCarthy/Variety via Getty
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“I’ll just respond with the truth. I have nothing to hide. I think that’s all you can do,” she said.
But she feels differently when they publicly comment.
“If someone is leaving something in a public space, I don’t tend to give it energy because I think you’re not doing it out of best interest," she said, “and I don’t want to feed the comment threads because if I jump in then it is just going to create more commentary around it.”
source: people.com
