“I didn’t think anybody would ever hire me again, because they would just assume I had anorexia, and that would be the end of that,” she recalled. “I had days where I was really hurt and embarrassed and infuriated. I was lucky that I had to work.”
Flockhart felt confident she wouldn’t experience the same scrutiny if she grew up in the spotlight today.
“They call it body-shaming now. I haven’t thought about it in a long time, but it’s really not OK to accuse someone of having a disease that a lot of people struggle with,” she noted. “I look back at pictures, and I’m the same then as I am now, and nobody says a word now.”