Friends fear Courtney Love is putting her life at risk, as her obsession with losing weight begins to take its toll. A gaunt and pale Courtney shocked fans at a surprise gig for her 43rd birthday in London, having lost more than 23kg and at least three dress sizes in what she calls an “anthropological experiment”.
“I was at a charity event and my friend Sting said, ‘Why don’t you do a body transformation?’ I was about to start on a new album and was feeling experimental. It made me wonder what would happen if I got really skinny,” she says.
However, friends believe the singer/actor has taken her dieting obsession way too far.
Courtney says she began her weight-loss program by eating just 3000kJ a day. While that has now increased to 5000kJ, Tania Ferraretto from the Dietician’s Association of Australia, says that is still frighteningly low. “The average adult should consume at least 8000 kilojoules a day,” Tania says.
More alarmingly, Courtney admits to passing out after becoming dizzy from fluid loss after taking diuretics. She also does daily workout sessions, including Pilates and running.
“It’s like kicking drugs,” she says of her extreme measures.
While Courtney claims she’s been sober for the past two years, friends now fear the former drug addict has simply swapped one addiction for another…
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