Portia De RossiPortia De Rossi has come clean about suffering from anorexia while working on Ally McBeal. Portia starred as Nell on the show between 1998 and 2002 but hit her lowest point in 1999 when she weighed just 82lbs (just under 6 stone).

“I’ve often wondered if I wasn’t on that show if [the anorexia] may not have happened,” she has revealed in April’s Vogue magazine.

“I didn’t really know at that point what it was like to be a celebrity, and the only people I knew at the time who had a similar experience were these women whom I worked with.”

“They became my role models.”

Portia’s relationship with Ellen DeGeneres has helped her come to terms with the illness.

“We’ve talked a lot about this. I’m not proud of this struggle. [While anorexic] it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear.”