Tallulah Willis Opens up About Hair Loss While Battling Anorexia

The 31-year-old actress took to Instagram to detail how the eating disorder affected her appearance, sharing a moving message along with photos that documented her journey.

On Sunday, June 29, Tallulah Willis posted a carousel of images depicting the impact that her battle with anorexia had on her body.

"I wanna talk about when I was balding because of my severe anorexia," she began in her caption. Willis said she was at Driftwood Recovery, a rehabilitation center based in Austin, TX, in 2022.

The first photo showed her with a noticeably smaller frame, wearing a turquoise T-shirt and shorts, and eating what appeared to be frozen yogurt. Her hair was also short and dark in color.

"I want to talk about how I for a long time in my life I would have seen those patches of bare skin blurring through sparse hairs as a badge of honor," Willis wrote. "'I was sick enough to make you look.'"

She revealed that during her time in Driftwood, she temporarily needed a wheelchair to move around because her leg muscles had "atrophied so badly." She added that still working to rebuild the muscles "decimated" during those years.

"I had such breakable and fragile hair, so thinned I had to use thousand clippies to keep things in place. And usually they slipped off because they nothing to grab into," she shared.

Willis — who is engaged to musician Justin Ace — said she cropped some of the photos because she felt "this truly isn't a stage to show off how I nearly starved to death (publicly!)." But she thought they would serve as a teaching tool.

She also confessed that she "went searching" for "AFTER photos" from the last few months, which she included in the thread, and "smiled the whole time."

"I didn't value myself or my health but I am of the lucky who have made it to the other side," Willis said.

"I made my disorder public and now it only feels right to make my recovery as well. I want to heal and hug and soothe every busy mind that's out there still hurting. Keep going I love u all 🫂," she concluded.