A WWE Diva and Women’s Champion has revealed that a life-threatening condition left her just 24 hours from death.
New champ Alexa Bliss opened up about her past eating disorder in an interview with Jonathan ‘The Coach’ Coachman.
The Smackdown star revealed how her parents were warned to expect the worst during one hospital visit.
And she described how she recovered from her near death-experience and grew to love her own body.
She said: “When I was diagnosed with my eating disorder the doctors said I was 24 hours away from dying.
“They told my parents that with the way my body takes to an eating disorder, that my organs weren’t coming back.
“I was hospitalised for bradycardia and they didn’t let me sleep because they thought I would go into cardiac arrest when I fell asleep.
“It was one of those things, knowing my life would just be a statistic – that one in every three people die of eating disorders.”
The 25-year-old added: “I remember looking through magazines, watching TV and thinking ‘why can’t I look like those girls?’
“I want to be that person that shows it’s okay. I’m 5ft, I’ve got a thick body, I love it. I’m curvy, I’m strong.”
Bliss, from Ohio, USA has held the WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship twice and is the current title holder.
