My eating disorder and life in the Bravo spotlight with Crystal Minkoff
Sex, Body, and Soul
Kate Roberts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Crystal Minkoff was thrust into the spotlight as one of the first Asian American cast members of the popular Bravo reality show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (RHOBH). During the show, she shared with her cast members her struggle with a life-threatening eating disorder, Bulimia. On our show Crystal takes us through her journey with her eating disorder and what she is teaching her own daughter about eating and being healthy. We also talk about what it’s like now to be on a popular reality TV show (mostly based on how you look) and the surge of Asian hate and bullying she has experienced. This one is not to be missed!
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| 0:00.0 | it almost helped me with my eating disorder, you know, like having a new relationship with food, |
| 0:05.1 | learning to love food and appreciate food and like ingredients as opposed to like this meal in |
| 0:10.2 | front of me that felt shameful. Then it became like, I know exactly what's in it and having a different |
| 0:15.3 | respect for food. Welcome to Sex, Body and Soul. I'm Kate Roberts, founder of the Body Agency, |
| 0:22.1 | and on this show, we talk about the marvel that is our bodies, |
| 0:26.2 | what they can do and what they need to thrive. |
| 0:29.3 | Ladies out there, our time is now. |
| 0:32.1 | Let's get to it. |
| 0:34.3 | Our next guest is Crystal Minkoff. |
| 0:37.9 | You will probably know Crystal from the Bravo show, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. |
| 0:43.9 | However, she is also an entrepreneur. |
| 0:47.2 | She founded the company Real Coco. |
| 0:50.1 | And on the show recently, she announced to her fellow stars that she has a pretty bad eating disorder, |
| 0:58.5 | which of course affects one in four girls and women across the United States. |
| 1:03.4 | Also, being the first Asian American to be cast on the show, welcome Crystal Minkoff. |
| 1:11.9 | Crystal, my darling, welcome to the Sex Body and Soul podcast. How are you? |
| 1:17.1 | I'm good. Thank you for having me. Well, it's so good to have you. And I have to say when we met up in |
| 1:23.3 | L.A., I just loved you immediately, and it was way too short. I could have sat there for many hours. |
| 1:30.2 | Thank you for being so open. And I think the conversation we're going to have on this podcast |
| 1:35.4 | will be extremely enlightening to girls and women who also have some of the challenges that |
| 1:41.9 | you and I have had that we talked about. So I'm going to get straight |
| 1:45.7 | into it. You are of new fame recently as you joined a Bravo TV show, The Railhouse Wides of Beverly Hills. |
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