Stephanie Pratt Says The Hills Made Her Bulimic

The Hill’s Stephanie Pratt is on this week’s cover of Us Weekly. Inside the issue, she talks about her struggle with bulimia. Stephanie says that working with skinny co-stars caused her eating disorder.

The 5-foot-7 23-year-old reveals she began bingeing and purging after watching a scene she shot with Lauren Conrad in 2007 after first joining the cast: “I was horrified. I remember saying, ‘I can’t believe how huge I look walking over to Lauren.’”

Another time, when filming in Hawaii in bikinis, the size 0-2 Pratt –- in a bikini and cover-up — asked costar Audrina Patridge, “What looks better, ’shirt on or off?’” Patridge said ‘On.’” Says Pratt, “The producers never put pressure on us to lose weight,” but adds, “It’s embarrassing working with skinny girls.”

So do you sympathize with her? Now while I can relate to feeling pressure to be thin (my family is always commenting on my weight and while I was in Asia strangers would comment on it as well, but thankfully I never developed an eating disorder), I can’t help but think this is all for publicity. First of all, she is a Pratt – need I say more? Secondly, would anyone with an eating disorder really want to pose in a bikini for the cover of a magazine? Moreover, I do think that she should own up to her own culpability and not just solely blame The Hills for her ED. However, if her struggles are legitimate, I do wish her all the best in her recovery.