Natasha Lee on the eating disorder that nearly killed her as a fourteen-year-old TV star, and what her story means for how we're all talking about Ariana Grande right now.

Ariana just confirmed she's stepping back from public life after years of her body being picked apart online. Natasha lived the opposite version twenty years ago on the set of Always Greener, disappearing in plain sight while nobody said a word. One woman surrounded by constant noise and speculation, the other suffering in silence. The same failure of care for both.

This week's guest, Natasha Lee, walks through the eating disorder that hospitalised her at fourteen, the industry that wrote a weight clause into her contract instead of asking if she was okay, and what she'd want anyone watching Ariana right now to actually do about it.

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Read Natasha's Op Eds here: https://themotherhood.substack.com/p/being-a-child-actor-nearly-killed and https://www.mediaweek.com.au/silence-isnt-always-kindness-ariana-grande-debate

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