On the May 16 airing of “Dancing With the Stars,” dance contestant Ginger Zee revealed her struggles as an adolescent with anorexia, an eating disorder that stemmed from her parents’ divorce.
“I think the split affected my childhood a lot,” Zee stated in a prerecorded segment before taking to the stage with her professional dance partner, Val Chmerkovskiy.
“We were moving. I had to make the new friends. I had to do everything. I had to control something so I was like, ‘I know what I can do. I’ll just not eat,'” she recounted. “I don’t think I even knew how bad it was at that time.”
The “Good Morning America” meteorologist’s eating disorder was a secret kept from most—except her mother, Dawn Zuidgeest-Craft, and a few close friends.
