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  • Nicole Scherzinger: How Her New Album, ‘Big Fat Lie,’ Helped Her Overcome Her Battle With Bulimia

    Nicole Scherzinger revealed in 2012 that she had overcome an eight-year battle with bulimia.

    She recently shared more details on how she overcame the devastating eating disorder. And not surprisingly, she found comfort and new-found self-esteem through her music.

    The former 36-year-old X Factor judge said that writing her new album, Big Fat Lie, was like “therapy.”

    “It’s a very personal album to me,” she told the Evening Standard. “It’s a transitional album, and it’s very honest and authentic.”

    Scherzinger also shared more details on her eating disorder, which she first revealed in a candid 2012 interview. For eight years, the singer said she felt like “I wasn’t enough, that I wasn’t pretty, that I was fat, and that I wasn’t worthy of more.”

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    Much has changed over the past few years for the former Pussycat Dolls singer.

    “I’m in a different place in my life now,” she says. “I feel a bit more confident and comfortable in my own skin to be able to talk about things that I hadn’t talked about before.”

    Scherzinger said she feels a world of relief after taking the time to write about the truth of her past in her album.

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    “It feels good to be truthful, because not everyone’s perfect,” she says. “Everyone always has these pre-conceived notions that you’re glamorous, you don’t have any problems, you don’t have any issues, and we all battle with our own issues.”

    The singer says she hopes fans will be able to relate to the difficult issues she addresses in songs on the album.

    “I’m addressing some issues and things I’ve battled with in my life in the album and hopefully people can feel like they can relate to it,” she said.

  • Nicole Scherzinger Talks About Her Bulimia Hell, Calling It An ‘Endless, Vicious Cycle’

    Nicole Scherzinger put on her bravest face and held nothing back in talking about her debilitating struggle with bulimia in the August edition of Cosmopolitan U.K. magazine.

    “I had such a great life on the outside, the Dolls were on top of the world, but I was miserable on the inside,” said the ex-Pussycat Dolls singer. “I’m never letting that happen again.”

    The 36-year-old went public with her addiction in 2012 and concedes that sharing the darkest moments of her long-secret eating disorder is still very painful.

    “Thinking about it I try not to well up,’ she said.

    “It is such a horrible, paralyzing disease and it was such a dark time for me,” said Scherzinger. “I didn’t think anyone knew in my group or in my family because I hid it that well, I was so ashamed. I knew it wasn’t normal or healthy because I was hurting myself through this cycle of disordered eating. It was my drug, my addiction. It’s an endless vicious cycle.”

    The former X-Factor judge says it took nearly losing her voice and blacking out while on tour to finally force her to deal with her addiction.

    “I had started losing my voice, I couldn’t sing at shows, and then I remember my manager finding me passed out on the floor in Malta or in the south of France,” she recalls. “I thought, ‘I’m going to lose everything I love if I don’t love myself.’”

    Scherzinger said that today she is healthy, but still struggles with another issue in her life — being incredibly shy.

    “I get past my shyness by making everything about others and not thinking about myself,” she says. “That’s what I did on The X Factor – I can be goofy and playful when it’s about the acts. They are like my babies. But when I’m off stage I’m not as big and animated … for me all my smiles and confidence are a triumph because it came from a broken place.”

    Image via Nicole Scherzinger, Instagram