Simpson reveals eating disorder

Pop star Ashlee Simpson has been keeping a secret from her fans - she once suffered an eating disorder while she was training to become a ballerina.

The Boyfriend singer admits the pressures were so great on her when she became the youngest student ever accepted at the School Of American Ballet she started binge eating in a bid to compete with her peers.

Simpson tells Cosmopolitan magazine: "I was around a lot of girls with eating disorders, and I actually had a minor one myself.

"It was about six months of not eating too much at all. I was 11 and five feet two and about 70 pounds… My parents stepped in and made me eat. That really helped a lot."

Now, the 21-year-old is an advocate for natural looking girls with curves and hates to hear about teenagers starving themselves to fit in.

She adds: "I hate it when girls lose their curves. My sister has curves and my mom has curves. I think it's sexy not to be a bone, and it's sad when people get too weight-conscious and don't look in the mirror and see themselves as being as beautiful."