Singer Lena Katina said on the show “The Stars Aligned” that her gallbladder was removed due to extreme diets.
Katina said that she started losing weight at the age of 14 after Ivan Shapovalov, the producer of the Tatu group, accused her of being overweight. According to the star, the man called her too chubby and demanded that she lose weight by up to 45 kilos. The singer noted that she looked like a “nerd” compared to her duet colleague Yulia Volkova. She then weighed approximately 55 kilos.
“Vanya said: “Lose weight.” What can a teenager think? Stop eating. I also ate cucumbers and tomatoes. True, the maximum damage I felt then was fainting from hunger. “I started fainting from hunger,” the star recalled.
Katina admitted that she tried many unhealthy diets. For example, she ate only watermelon and drank diuretics for days. The artist noted that his mother and grandmother were worried about him at that time and tried to dissuade him from such weight loss methods. But she didn’t listen to them. She lost ten kilos in three months using these methods, but the weight came back quickly.
Katina said she developed an eating disorder because of these diets.
“When I was 20, they found a stone in my gallbladder, took me away when I was suffering from colic, and cut off the bladder along with the stone. “I eat everything now, but little by little,” shared the artist.
Previously Masha Malinovskaya talked about her bulimia.