Little Mix<\/a> singer had battled anorexia from the age of 13 and her audition for the reality show in 2011 came just a few months after she had been discharged from hospital, and not only does she think a “proper” assessment by producers would have found her unsuitable for the demands of the programme, she believes there were other finalists who should also have been rejected.<\/p>\nShe told The Guardian newspaper: \u201cIn retrospect, if the show had done a proper mental health assessment, then they wouldn\u2019t have let me on. [The psych test] was very surface. <\/p>\n
“Judging by some of the people in that X Factor house, it wasn\u2019t done properly. Bless them, through no fault of their own, some of those people were mentally unwell. <\/p>\n
“All of the female contestants slept in the same bedroom, and one of them would get up, put all her wigs out and start doing a Britney Spears performance at three in the morning. Or you\u2019d be woken up by the sound of her using her vibrator in the middle of the night. <\/p>\n
\n“We\u2019d have a meeting with lawyers and someone who was obviously not in the best headspace would be picking their feet and eating it in front of everyone. It was like, \u2018Is this the music industry?\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe Angel of My Dreams hitmaker didn’t realise until later that her eating disorder had continued during her time with Little Mix.<\/p>\n
\nShe said: \u201cI didn\u2019t think it at the time, but when I look back at photos of periods when I was quite unhappy, I think, wow, girlie, you were very, very thin. The pattern was there. Historically, if I\u2019ve ever felt that something is out of my control, then restricting food has been a means of controlling my life in a very toxic way.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cIn summer 2017 I was living in a flat in east London and having really bad night terrors. I\u2019d have such disturbing nightmares \u2013 things that are too horrific to say, dreams where I\u2019d be harming myself \u2013 that I\u2019d force myself to stay awake by drinking coffee and playing loud music. I\u2019d be going to perform at outdoor concerts having not slept for days.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nAnd even now, Jade has a “daily battle” with convincing herself she doesn’t need weight-loss jabs amid being trolled online about her size.<\/p>\n
\nShe said: \u201cI have a daily battle with myself not to go on Ozempic.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI don\u2019t judge people that do, but because I have a history of eating disorders, I don\u2019t know where taking something like that would end for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
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