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Amanda Seyfried talks body image and anxiety with ELLE

Amanda Seyfried opens up to ELLE about her issues with OCD and anxiety and explains why she thanks God for Kate Upton.

Amanda Seyfried is the cover star of ELLE’s June issue, which those of you with a subscription to the magazine should have received by now.

Body image is such a big thing for women, especially someone in the public eye who is constantly scrutinised for her looks and Seyfried is no different to us when it comes to feeling like she has to look a certain way.

“I'd be lying if I said I wasn't constantly aware of what I'm doing with my body,” she says. “I don't have to look like a supermodel. I don't have to have those abs - the camera doesn't see that. But because we have all been designed to want these things, I'm a victim of this stuff, too. Thank god for Kate Upton. She's a supermodel. She has curves. She's like the new image of beauty and thank god.”

She works out and “does the occasional raw diet for a single week, just to cleanse,” but isn’t too hard on herself. “Emotionally, I need sugar in my life. I like wine. And coffee,” she confesses. We knew we liked her!

The actress admits that in her younger years she struggled with anxiety and OCD. “I feel terrible for the younger me, because I thought I was crazy,” she admits. “Where was the fear coming from? It doesn't make any sense. It becomes physical - I would get dizzy and cry and the lights were too bright. I had my anxiety and my OCD - a lot of kids have it. You're afraid of it; you're afraid of your brain.”

Nowadays she has more of a handle on those issues and tries to relax more. She credits boyfriend Justin Long for helping her with that as she says she “needs someone who can make fun of the stick up my ass.”

Read the full interview in the June issue of ELLE.

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Posted by Amy Power.

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