Thandie Newton Can't Escape Bulimic Past

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HOLLYWOOD - Hollywood actress Thandie Newton will always be reminded of her childhood battle with bulimia, thanks to scars on her hands.

The Crash star began suffering from the eating disorder when she was 14 while training for a ballet exam.

She says, "I ate nothing but cottage cheese. It didn't seem so strange. My mom was a health visitor, so we never had butter in our house, we had Flora (margarine). I had a very healthy, nutrition-conscious upbringing."

But Newton says the disorder turned into an obsession when she started dating an older man.

She reveals, "We used to go out to dinner all the time, and he'd get so excited about eating... and it must have been my way of separating myself from him--by becoming bulimic.

"I would go back to the flat that we were sharing at the time, and I'd throw up."

Newton confesses she battled the disorder for much of her teenage years, but had "horrible bulimia for about a year."

She adds, "I've still got the scars on my knuckles from where I put my fingers down my throat."

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