GLOSSIP – The GALA Beauty Podcast
Sophia Thiel: “My therapy was the very last resort”
Sophia Thiel
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In GLOSSIP – the GALA Beauty Podcast – we take you into an even more beautiful world. In the current season GLOSSIP, Sophia Thiel is a guest. We talk about how she battled her eating disorder and why she sought therapy. ++ trigger warning: depression and eating disorder ++
“Where is Sophia Thiel?” – This is what many media and people have asked themselves in the last two years. The once most successful fitness influencer in Germany had unsubscribed from social media almost overnight and went into hiding. Now she’s back. And how! In her book “Come back stronger” and now also in our podcast GLOSSIP, the 26-year-old explains why her time off had very emotional reasons – and what her eating disorder had to do with it.
Episode 4: “My manic binge eating was hell for me”
Sophia Thiel wants to encourage – and destigmatize the issue of mental health and eating disorders. She herself would have wished for more education and mindfulness at a young age, as she tells in our current episode GLOSSIP. For her, professional help was “the very last resort, I noticed that everything was going down the drain,” admits Sophia. In the podcast, you can hear what diagnosis she finally got and what happened to her afterwards.
Episode 3: “Then the first secret binge eating started”
“As a child, I was always referred to as chubby, robust,” the strong one “- that really annoyed me,” says Sophia Thiel in the current episode GLOSSIP. Although she has always enjoyed eating, she has always felt uncomfortable in her own skin. So much so that she started to eat secretly. Because: At some point, in front of friends, she no longer dared to eat anything. “I was afraid of getting stupid comments,” says Thiel. “Then the first secret binge eating began.” How it went after that, Sophia reveals in the podcast.
Episode 2: Sophia Thiel was afraid to fail
For her millions of followers: Inside, Sophia Thiel always smiled into the camera – but inside it looked very different. She tells us which side of herself she couldn’t show in the illusory world of Instagram and why she was afraid of failing.
Episode 1: Sophia Thiel: The year that changed everything
With her fitness videos, Sophia reached several million subscribers on Instagram and YouTube. But as motivated as she was in front of the camera – it looked very different in her. Sophia had to pull the emergency brake and rearrange her life. In GLOSSIP, she reveals what the separation from her boyfriend at the time and an escape abroad have to do with it.
This article originally appeared on GALA.de.