Marcia Brady Bulimic

Posted by Lori Henry Nov 30, 2006

Maureen McCormick, who played Marcia Brady on the Brady Show, suffered from bulimia, although not while she was filming the show.

"Back on the show, I could eat whatever I wanted," she remembers. "Things changed. I am 5-foot 3-inches. At some point I stopped growing, and it is harder when you are small. We never dealt with [eating disorders] on the show. I really don’t think Eve [Plumb] or Susie [Susan Olsen] were dealing with a weight issue."

But fear helped Maureen stop purging and start taking care of herself.

"I had some friends going through the same thing with me at the same time," she states. "I am really stubborn and really strong-willed when I put my mind to something. When I do, I can say no and turn things around."

Unfortunately (in my opinion), she has now agreed to participate in VH1’s reality TV show “Celebrity Fit Club,” where celebrities go to a fat camp and strive to lose weight.

She says about joining the show: "For the past few years, I had been totally out of exercising, just eating and going crazy. I thought, ‘What a great opportunity to do something positive.’"