Eccleston played the Ninth Doctor and the first in the 2005 Doctor Who revival series. In his memoir Love the Bones of You: My Father and the Making of Me, Eccleston writes about dealing with anorexia, body dysmorphia and suicidal thoughts. “Many times I’ve wanted to reveal that I’m a lifelong anorexic and dysmorphic,” he writes. “I never have. I always thought of it as a filthy secret, because I’m northern, because I’m male and because I’m working class.” On suffering from anorexia while playing The Doctor, Eccleston writes: "The illness is still there raging within me as the Doctor. People love the way I look in that series, but I was very ill. The reward for that illness was the part. And therein lies the perpetuation of the whole sorry situation.”
TOPICS: Christopher Eccleston, Doctor Who