Sylvester Stallone is sharing some health obstacles he has faced while playing physically demanding roles over the decades.The Academy Award-nominated actor, 80, revealed during an interview with The New York Times that he has suffered from an eating disorder.While prepping for his role in the 1982 movie "Rambo," Stallone — who has authored a new memoir, titled "The Steps" — said he took pains to appear more "animalistic," drawing inspiration from jaguars and cats.MEN FACE NEW PRESSURE TO STAY ‘HOT’ AS THEY AGE — AND IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT LIVING LONGER"Then it became an obsession.Really bad.
It got to the point where I became bulimic," he said during the interview.Actor Sylvester Stallone, as Rocky Balboa, shows off his muscles in the boxing ring on the set of Rocky III in May of 1982 in Los Angeles, California.(James Drake/Getty Images)Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder marked by episodes of binge eating — consuming a large amount of food while feeling a loss of control — followed by purging behaviors such as vomiting, excessive use of laxatives or diuretics, fasting or excessive exercise, according to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)."I couldn’t hold anything down.
Or I didn’t want to keep it down because I became so obsessed with staying at that point of fitness, literally an obsessive body-worship kind of thing," Stallone shared.CONTROVERSIAL STREAMER CLAVICULAR EXPLAINS VIRAL 'LOOKSMAXXING' TREND AS GEN Z ADOPTS EXTREME REGIMENThe actor said that while filming "Rocky III," he reached his lowest body fat of 2.6%.The National Academy of Sports Medicine classifies body fat as "dangerously low" if it falls below 8% for men ages 20–69 and below 14% for women ages 20–69.Sylvester Stallone strikes at a punching bag in a boxing ring while his coach, Burgess Meredith, watches during training at a gymnasium in a still from the film, "Rocky," directed by John G.
Avildsen, 1976.(Getty Images)Stallone also admitted that he took ste...