Ricki Lake: Weight Problems Related to Childhood Abuse

December 6th, 2007 12:10 PM by mischalova

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Ricki Lake has battled weight problems for years.

Now, in an interview with Access Hollywood, the actress and former talk show host reveals a possible reason why: "I was a victim of childhood sexual abuse and I think it contributed. Who knows for sure?"

"I've done many years in therapy and worked on all my issues. I didn't talk about it for, like, 15 or 20 years; I didn't admit that it had happened to me because I wanted to kind of bury things. It, in some way, made me who I am today."

You've gotta admire Lake for speaking out on such a difficult issue.

"I don't want to be a poster child for this at all but it's very weird thing for children when they're violated in that way. Food became a comfort to me; it was my kind of security blanket."

Ricki Lake hopes to help other women in her situation.

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M Ram
September 14th, 2009 1:18 AM

Hi Ricki, I can so totally relate to your pain, I too was also sexually abused at the tender age of 6, right thru my teenage years by a family member and was never able to open up/talk to anyone about the abuse until I was 45 . I had to carry that heavy weight all alone for 50 years, which as a result has destroyed me in many areas of my life. I basically felt I failed in every area of my life when I look back now at my life at the time I had no idea what was happening to me and why my life was so corrupted/messed up. Victims like us use different outlets to cope with their pain until they open up and start the healing process, my outlet was shopping, I've shopped so much over the years to fill he void/cope with the pain until I am now applying for bankruptcy (it was that bad)... I shopped for 22 years, prior to that, I used promiscuity in my earlier years, and when I finally woke up one day when at 50 yrs, I started to realize what has been happening to me all of my life, and why, I