Robbie Williams has announced on his Instagram profile that he suffers from what is known as body dysmorphic disorder. The psychological obsessive-compulsive disorder causes him to constantly see flaws and flaws in his body. Fans have been worried about the singer’s health for a while now, and he’s been looking thinner and thinner in photos and videos lately. Now Williams spoke openly about his illness.
Robbie Williams on Instagram: “It’s a shitty disaster”
In an Instagram post, the ex-Take That member went into more detail about his current condition. Despite all the seriousness, Williams insisted on approaching the situation with a bit of black humor: “My ideal weight is when people worry about me,” he joked in a simple cartoon drawing on his profile. In the comments section, however, Williams is honest about his condition: “I could write a book about self-loathing when it comes to my body image. The real, pure self-loathing, the disgust at being ugly,” the Briton says. “I suffer from dysmorphophobia […] So you can probably imagine what my mind [an mir] sees. Or maybe you can’t either. Either way, it’s a shitty disaster.”
He continues, “Right now I’m skinny, but being me my mind is like, ‘Damn great Rob, you managed to get skinny and now you’re old, congratulations.’ The struggle is real, the sadness is shocking. I’ve had it my whole life and it won’t go away.” In addition, by sharing the diagnosis, he wants to liberate himself and, ideally, help others who find themselves in his words.
The full statement on Instagram:
In the comment columns of his post, fans encouraged Robbie Williams and shared their experiences with eating disorders and dissatisfaction with their own body image. In the case of body dysmorphic disorder, also known as dysmorphophobia, those affected suffer from never looking good enough and want to counteract this with extreme diets and/or exercise.