Portia de Rossi 'suffered from anorexia'

Portia de Rossi has said that she would still be suffering from anorexia if she hadn't come to terms with her sexuality.

The actress, who is married to Ellen DeGeneres, admitted that she started dieting at the age of 12.

She told DeGeneres on her TV show: "I think I would have still suffered from an eating disorder if I wasn't coming to terms with my sexuality. I really had the eating disorder because I started dieting when I was 12 and because of a lifetime of chronic dieting.

"But it sure didn't help that I was hiding who I was because who I really was was completely unacceptable, I mean there were no lesbian actresses in the history of acting, I had no real gay role models, it was a very tough time."

Asked how she could still find fault with her body when she weighed just 80lbs, the 37-year-old replied: "I looked in the mirror and I saw that I had very emaciated arms, I saw bones and I knew I was underweight, but my eye went to the inch of fat that I still had on my stomach and I went to my thighs, and it still does, that's kind of what I do when I look in the mirror."