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Amelia Hamlin is reflecting on her struggles with anorexia in a new essay with Glamour magazine.

In the piece, the 18-year-old model confessed that if she hadn’t opened up about her eating disorder, she probably would’ve relapsed.

“I have eyes on me 24/7,” she shared. “After sharing my story, they weren’t just anonymous eyes but eyes that knew this intimate detail about my life, that were watching me and my body every single day. When you’re in recovery from an eating disorder, it’s so difficult to continue pushing through even when you have bad days where you just want to go back your old habits.”

Amelia also shared that she chose to reveal her disorder so her younger followers wouldn’t see and think of the changes in her body as normal.

“All these young girls were following me and commenting on my posts, and I realized I didn’t want them to be following a lie,” Amelia wrote. “I couldn’t allow little girls, or little boys, or whoever, to look at the changes in my body and think I’d just hit puberty — that the really skinny photos of me from the year before were just a normal prepubescent body.”

Recently, Amelia also revealed that she felt like she could have died from her disorder.

She first opened up about her anorexia in spring of 2018.

Camila Mendes has been very open about her struggles with bulimia and got candid about her therapy during POPSUGAR Play/ground this past weekend.

The 24-year-old Riverdale actress opened up about being in denial that she had a problem.

“I had this mentality … [my sister’s] situation was a lot more serious than mine so I’d always find comparisons like, ‘Oh, I’m not like that so I must not have an eating disorder like I just purge every once in a while, it’s not a big deal, right?’” Camila recalled during the panel.

However, she had a breakthrough when she teamed up with Project Heal: “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’ve been in denial about my issues.’”

Camila added, “I started to see a therapist and started getting serious about recovery when I couldn’t get through a fitting.”

There were more than one 2-hour fittings for the CW series which she shared were “overwhelming” because she was trying on clothes her character would wear that she normally would not, like tight dresses, short skirts and outfits that showed a lot of skin.

“It was like so the opposite of what I like to wear and it was really uncomfortable,” Camila says. “It made me really insecure, so it got to a point where I couldn’t get through a fitting. Thirty minutes in, I was crying … I was like, ‘Why don’t things fit me a certain way?’”