HOLLY Hagan has revealed her secret three-year battle with bulimia after she was called a “fat s**g” by online trolls.
The 27-year-old star shot to fame when she joined MTV’s Geordie Shore in 2011, and filming for the show eventually saw her being sick “about seven times a day”.
Holly said that she became “addicted” to bulimia, which initially started as a one-off.
She explained: “I started to think, ‘I could eat those crisps because I can just be sick’ or, ‘I can have that takeaway because I will just be sick’.
“It became a really bad cycle. My teeth were going yellow and my throat was constantly burning. It was horrible.”
Holly added to the Daily Star: “When you are called a fat slag on the internet for 10 years you try and do anything you can to lose weight and make yourself thin.
“Because we were in the Geordie Shore house and found it hard to exercise and have a healthy diet, I felt like I had to find a way to stay thin and keep off the weight I had lost in between filming.”
It was the Geordie Shore production team who eventually helped Holly through the illness, “dragging” her into a meeting when they realised what was going on.
The reality TV favourite said that the crew were “really upset and concerned” and forced her to speak to a counsellor.
She added: “They really took care of me and got me help.
“I don’t have those issues anymore, but I do now understand I had an eating disorder.”
In December, Holly posted on Instagram about being “the fat one” on the MTV reality show.
She shared at the time: “Most of you will of followed my journey, being ‘the fat one’ from Geordie Shore. The majority of my late teens was spent trying desperately to lose weight for the approval of others.
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“My reason.. If all everyone calls me is fat maybe if I’m slim they’ll stop…. it wasn’t until years later I realised it didn’t matter what weight I was, the trolls were going to find something to call me.
However, the cruel trolls continued after the reality star had cosmetic surgery, with the Newcastle beauty adding: “I just wanted the abuse to stop.
“But it didn’t stop, it went from ‘fat slag’ to ‘too much surgery, looked better before’, ‘you’re the reason our children feel under pressure to get surgery’, ‘what has she done to herself she looks horrendous’.
“…You can’t abuse someone for the way they look for 8 years and then be shocked when they succumb to the pressure.
“I still wasn’t happy. I was still gaining weight and unable to control it. I still didn’t like my body.”