Fatima Sana Shaikh developed bulimia after Dangal, avoided medication for epilepsy: ‘Why are you giving me paglon wali dawai?’ | Bollywood News
Fatima Sana Shaikh has opened up on two health hazards that she’s been combating for years now. While one is her condition of epilepsy, the other is an eating disorder that she developed after the weight gain she underwent for her debut film, Nitesh Tiwari’s 2016 blockbuster family sports drama Dangal, in which she played a wrestler. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO Fatima’s eating disorder “I have had a love-hate relationship with myself, and I’ve been addicted to a certain image of myself. I’ve had a toxic relationship with food. I put on weight in Dangal because I had to. When I’m goal-oriented, I’d do everything. I was training for three hours, so I had to consume 2,500-3,000 calories every day for me to gain weight. When the movie got over, I wasn’t training as much, but I was still having 3,000 calories because I was used to it,” revealed Fatima. That shift in her routine made her very “unfit” and “unhealthy.” “Food became my comfort space. I could eat nonstop for hours. I hate myself …
