Having battled an eating disorder while she was in the Spice Girls, Mel C has banned discussing diets in front of her daughter. The Spice Girl has said that she ‘obsessively exercised’ and ‘cut out food groups’ during the girl band's height of fame in the 1990s. But, speaking to Women's Health magazine{
‘I didn't ever allow people to speak about diets in our house,’ she told the magazine. ‘Scarlet's 10 years old now and I'm starting to notice that she's more conscious of the way she looks. But I think one of the positives of having gone through having an eating disorder is that I'm very conscious of how I speak around her. That positive language – it's habit now.’
Mel also said that she thinks the press had a negative impact on her body image. The musician added, ‘These days with social media, everyone has an opinion, but in the 90s, it was what journalists were saying about you, and some of those things were disgusting. You wouldn’t get away with it now.'
'I started not looking after myself properly,' she said, speaking about her eating disorder. 'Cutting out food groups, and my exercising became more and more obsessive, to the point that I was underweight. I was unwell and that probably continued for a couple of years.'
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