Little Mix's Jade Thirlwall Says People Ask If She's 'Pregnant' After Being 'StickThin' from Her Eating Disorder Cara Lynn ShultzAugust 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM Ollie Millington/WireImage; Harry Durrant/Getty Jade Thirlwall (left) with Little Mix in 2013; Jade Thirlwall performing at Glastonbury in 2025.
- - Little Mix's Jade Thirlwall Says People Ask If She's 'Pregnant' After Being 'Stick-Thin' from Her Eating Disorder
Cara Lynn ShultzAugust 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Jade Thirlwall (left) with Little Mix in 2013; Jade Thirlwall performing at Glastonbury in 2025. -
In a new interview, Little Mix alum Jade Thirlwall said people speculate that she's "pregnant" because she's no longer "stick-thin" from an eating disorder
The singer, 32, said when she auditioned for her star-making turn in X-Factor, she had just been discharged from the hospital for anorexia treatment
Jade also said it's a "daily battle" to not go on Ozempic due to her history with eating disorders
Little Mix alum Jade Thirlwall shared that although she's "the healthiest I've ever been," she fields comments from people speculating if she's pregnant — because she's no longer "stick-thin" due to an eating disorder.
When she auditioned for her star-making turn on U.K. talent show The X Factor in 2011, Thirlwall was 18 and freshly discharged from the hospital after being treated for anorexia.
"In retrospect, if the show had done a proper mental health assessment, then they wouldn't have let me on," Thirlwall, now 32, told The Guardian in an interview published on Saturday, Aug. 16.
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She went on to tell the outlet that she didn't want her eating disorder "to be my identity," which is why she didn't share it publicly at first. Although she explained that, during Little Mix's heyday, positioning her music career was "the ultimate motivation" to maintaining a healthy weight, in hindsight, she questions how well she managed her anorexia.
"I didn't think it at the time, but when I look back at photos of periods when I was quite unhappy, I think, 'Wow, girlie, you were very, very thin.' The pattern was there. Historically, if I've ever felt that something is out of my control, then restricting food has been a means of controlling my life in a very toxic way," the "Angel of My Dreams" singer, whose debut solo album, That's Showbiz Baby, drops Sept. 12, said.
Now, she says, "I'm in my 30s and the healthiest I've ever been, but every time I post a picture, there are comments saying, 'She must be pregnant.' "
"The sad thing is that it's usually women," Jade shared. "But people are used to seeing me in a group environment five or 10 years ago when I was stick-thin because I was in my early 20s with an eating disorder."
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Jade Thirlwall performs with Little Mix in 2019.
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As a result, she says, "I have a daily battle with myself not to go on Ozempic," she says. "I don't judge people that do, but because I have a history of eating disorders, I don't know where taking something like that would end for me."
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