Tia Mowry looked like the picture-perfect teenager on "Sister, Sister," but she wasn't living a healthy lifestyle.
"TV sets are always catered, so I was surrounded by junk food 24/7. To my teenage self, it was like living in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory," the 38-year-old star wrote in her new cookbook "Whole New You: How Real Food Transforms Your Life, for a Healthier, More Gorgeous You" (via People).
"Everything I wanted was at my fingertips: Twizzlers, M&M's, Starbursts, potato chips, you name it," Mowry described. "And if something I craved wasn't there, all I had to do was ask: 'Chocolate chip cookies, please?' And they simply appeared. It was heaven. If heaven leads to health problems, that is."
To stay slim, she began taking diet pills.
"I didn't feel fat, but the pressure of being on television and wanting to look sexy and beautiful took over," she confessed. "I'm not proud of it. I got skinny, but the pills caused my heart to race, and I knew in my gut that I was hurting myself."
Mowry didn't kick her diet-pill habit until she took a psychology class in college. A professor convinced her to write "Give up diet pills" on paper and toss it into a fire.
"As I watched the paper crackle and burn, something in me released," the mom of one shared. "I haven't touched diet pills since that day, and thankfully, I haven't wanted to."
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