08/08/2012 02:11

By Bruna Nessif

This Pretty Little Liars star has a not-so-pretty past.

Actress Lucy Hale confessed during an interview featured in the September issue of Cosmopolitan that she has dealt with body image issues and struggled with an eating disorder.

"I've never really talked about this, but I would go days without eating," Hale admitted.

"Or maybe I'd have some fruit and then go to the gym for three hours. I knew I had a problem…It was a gradual process but I changed myself." 

The 23-year-old—who recently became a Bongo model for this year's spring campaign—has been dating American Horror Story's latest addtion Chris Zylka, and gushed to Cosmo about their first meeting, "I was like, 'Holy crap you're gorgeous!' It was like no one else was there. We couldn't stop talking."