Watch: 2024 Olympics: Tom Daley Reveals Completed Version of His Knitted SweaterContent warning: This story discusses eating disorders. Tom Daley is reflecting on swimming through uncharted waters. The former Olympic diver shared insight into the early days of his professional diving career, including how the sports' pressure led him to struggle with an eating disorder and body dysmorphia during his 2011 competition season. "I realized that people within British diving were looking at me as not just a diver, but also what I actually looked like," Tom, 31, told Radio Times in an interview published on Oct. 27. "I got told I was overweight." Confused by the onslaught of criticism, the gold medalist-who shares kids Robert "Robbie" Ray, 7, and 19-month-old Phoenix Rose with husband Dustin Lance Black-noted that at one point, he completely "cut out food" to help him lose weight. However, this only worsened his relationship with food. readTom Daley Tearfully Announces Retirement After 2024 Olympics"I was just not fueling myself appropriately," Tom-who competed for Team Great Britain in five Olympic Games until he retired last August-explained. "I wasn't giving myself enough calories to be able to properly train. I used to get so hungry that I'd binge. Then when I binged, I'd feel so bad that I was bulimic for a while." Amid his personal battle, the Celebrity Traitors star continued to competitively dive that following year-including winning his first bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics. However, that impressive milestone also came with some difficult challenges. "There was so much pressure," Tom recalled of his notable performance. "It was a home Olympic Games. When was I ever going to get a chance to dive in front of a home crowd again, with all my friends and family there?"Patrick Khachfe/Getty ImagesHe added of the historic game, "I was also aware that the funding of British diving was sitting on my shoulders because if we didn't win a medal, funding for diving was going to be cut." Though Tom was pleased with his accomplishment at the time, he felt overwhelmed since he "didn't have anyone to talk to" about his growing anxiety and eating disorder. It wasn't until he met Dustin-with whom he tied the knot in 2017 after four years of dating-that he started to focus on healing his body image struggles. "My husband's been a huge support in that," he gushed. "I think it's a big thing in the gay world, if I'm honest. Some people have very unrealistic body expectations." Keep reading to see more celebrities who have opened up about their mental health... Franklin Sheard/Fad Media Group/ShutterstockGucci ManeThe rapper (real name Radric Davis) revealed in his October 2025 book Episodes: The Diary of a Recovering Mad Man that he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, which prompted a mental health episode in 2020. "After that, I was like, 'Man, I got to really just hold myself accountable and take care of my health,'" he said on an episode of The Breakfast Club. "I don't never want to have an episode again. I'm gonna see a therapist, [even] if I have to take medicine." In addition to his hope that his vulnerability would help others in need, Gucci Mane said that his kids Ice Davis and Iceland Ka'oir Davis with wife Keyshia Ka'Oir inspired him to seek help amid his episode. "My wife was pregnant with my little boy," he continued. "I don't want to raise a family and then my mental health [is] gone. What if I have an episode I can't come back from? So, I just started doing the work and started seeking help."Sansho Scott/BFA.com/ShutterstockPenn BadgleyThe Gossip Girl alum detailed his experience as a child actor with what he described as "body dysmorphia." "I know that I hated my body," Penn told The Guardian in April 2025, "and simply wanted a different one." In response to the weight he gained following his parents' divorce, he added, "There was just a period where, coming out of depression and isolation, I was jumping wilfully into, but also being thrust into, this world where the more conventionally beautiful I seemed, the more successful I might be, the more value I might have." Despite the mental struggles, though, Penn credited his ability to persist to his spirituality. "That is what allowed me to persevere through the disillusionment, all the things I'd been grappling with," he explained, "and then come back to it all, but with hopefully some kind of inner transformation." John Salangsang/ShutterstockEliza CoupeThe Scrubs alum has been vocal about her past difficult relationship with food. "Some may call it an eating disorder, I just call it my life," she said on the The Funny Thing Is podcast. "My drug of choice was always food. I did crazy s--t with it." She added, "I would over-exercise, and there was a sprinkle of bulimia in there." Though she has confessed her struggles with her diet, she has also shared her progress with her health and fitness goals. "When I was 23, I cut all sugar ou