Jane Fonda Thought She Wouldn’t ‘Live Past 30’ Due to Bulimia

Jane Fonda is an Academy Award-winning Hollywood legend who’s enjoyed a decades-spanning career, but she’s not been immune to the pressures of maintaining a camera-ready physique, she revealed this week on the Call Her Daddy podcast.

The 80 for Brady star explained that in her twenties, she suffered from “very, very bad” bulimia. “I led a secret life,” Fonda told host Alex Cooper. “I was very, very unhappy. I assumed I wouldn’t live past 30. I didn’t go out. I didn’t hardly date ’cause I was unhappy and I had this eating disorder. And then I was also making movies that I didn’t very much like.”

Fonda also described the emotional toll that bulimia took on her. “It takes days and then at least a week to get over one single binge,” she said. “It’s not just the fatigue. You become angry. You become hostile. All of the trouble that I got in was because of that anger and that hostility.”