“It’s very scary to open up about everything,” said Rivera to People Magazine. “It’s not something a lot of people talk about, but I think they should. I know some people might read it and say, ‘What the hell?’ But I hope someone out there gets something out of it.”
In her memoir, she also reveals that she struggled with anorexia as a teen. “By the time I was a sophomore, I started feeling that what had begun as a game had maybe gone too far. I just avoided food at all costs,” she writes in her book. Writing her memoir made her understand about the seriousness of her eating disorder.
“I was so young and it just seemed to be the norm. Everyone was going through similar stuff,” she tells People. “I had no way of knowing if I was going through it worse. I was juggling my feelings and it makes me sad that there are girls still going through that 15 years after I went through it.”
