She gave birth to a son, her first child with husband David Foster last week.
And Katharine McPhee talked about how her pregnancy brought up the previous struggles she had with her food and her body during Dr. Berlin’s informed pregnancy podcast.
The 36-year-old new mother said during the podcast that her “body issues” were the “biggest challenge” during pregnancy, according to People.
Cândido: She gave birth to a son, her first child with her husband David Foster last week. And Katharine McPhee talked about how her pregnancy brought up the previous struggles she had with her food and her body during Dr. Berlin’s informed pregnancy podcast
Kathrine, who noted that she gained 18 pounds during her pregnancy, spoke about her previous battles with eating disorders and bulimia in a 2017 interview with Health magazine.
Katharine said: ‘Suddenly, it came about in a way that hadn’t existed for a long time.’
She said she previously “felt very stable in my life for the past four or five years, and my weight has been more consistent.”
Katharine continued: ‘But feeling that there was a relapse after becoming pregnant was really shocking, disturbing and worrying for me, because I was suddenly so obsessed with food, starting this first trimester, and I had such a distortion that I wear it.’
Speaking openly: the new 36-year-old mother said during the podcast that her “body issues” were the “biggest challenge” during pregnancy
She said that although there was a lot of ‘anxiety’, she ‘resisted’, noting that she is’ very grateful to have come to an end [and] that I feel good and that I look in the mirror and I’m like, “Yes, my legs, my thighs, my arms are a little thicker, but I’m fine with that.” ‘
Katharine didn’t feel like I had a “total relapse”, but it was definitely a feeling that I was eating too much and then I had that stuffing feeling that I couldn’t breathe and couldn’t find out [it] because there was something new in my body that was making me feel clogged up or if I was eating too much food. ‘
Katharine said that ‘she was very obsessed with food’ during ‘the first quarter and the second quarter’.
The mother of one of them explained: ‘I think it was also because I was shooting again on the Netflix show that I started, [which] obviously paused during the [COVID-19} pandemic.’
She revealed the hardest part was ‘feeling like I was relaxing in some capacity with my food issues.’
Lovebirds: Katharine said ‘she was very obsessed with food’ during ‘the first trimester and into the second trimester;’ seen February 24, 2021 at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills
Katharine said she felt ‘ravenous’ during her first trimester and it led to her ask herself it its the eating disorder version of her or her body wanted to eat: ‘When I did eat, I would feel really full and it was very confusing [and] made someone who thought that I had solved, the food problems, [feels like] suddenly I had nothing planned. ‘
She added: ‘I look back at these pictures and my husband was documenting them every day, because I said,’ Take a picture of me now. And I look back and think, “Oh my God, why have I been so hard on myself?”
The singer / actress said she then decided to seek out a psychiatrist with whom she had worked during her time on American Idol.
Katharine said the psychiatrist told her that “it is very common for women who have struggled with eating disorders in the past to almost relapse, in a sense, when they enter pregnancy.”
Her words: The singer / actress said she then decided to contact a psychiatrist she had worked with during her time on American Idol
Adding: ‘And it made me feel so much better that I wasn’t alone in that mental space … just meeting him and talking to me about it. It wasn’t like he gave me a bottle of pills and said, “Here are your anxiety pills.” That was not what he did when he met me, but he was just talking and asking questions.
When she reached the second quarter, she said the experience “has improved a lot”.
Katherine and David, 71, welcomed a boy last week; he is already the father of five daughters from previous relationships.