Lorna Luxe Reveals Her Long Battle With Eating Disorders and How It Shaped Her Public Persona

05 October 2025

Lorna Luxe, whose real name is Lorna Andrews, recently shared a raw and deeply personal account of her struggles with body image, eating disorders and the toll social media took on her sense of self. In a powerful interview on the We Need to Talk podcast with Paul Carrick Brunson she described how pressures from her early career and the demands of maintaining a public image pushed her into patterns of disordered eating.

She traced the journey back to her days as a flight attendant at Virgin Atlantic, where she first developed an obsession with thinness she believed her job required. Over time that fixation evolved into bulimia and extreme calorie restriction. The influence of images on social media, with its polished highlight reels, only amplified her insecurities, making her feel she had to compete with perfection in every frame.

Luxe spoke openly about how the constant availability of food on long flights triggered dangerous behaviors. She recounted nights when food trays remained unused in galley ovens, tempting her to eat beyond necessity, then spiraling into self punishment. To hide her illness she altered work routes and chose destinations based on her ability to exercise unseen or hide her internal conflict. At her lowest point, the choices weren’t about travel or adventure but about avoidance and concealment.

Her confession also touches on the challenges of recovery in the public eye. Though she says she is in a place of greater stability now, she acknowledged that the struggles persist. Anxiety or stress can still provoke urges to undereat or purge. She insisted that she will never fully be free from the echoes of the past, because the illness shaped her identity in ways that can’t be rewound. But she has learned to recognize dangerous impulses and intervene with support.

On the podcast, Luxe also reflected on how her image of strength as an influencer sometimes backfires. Being seen as “inspirational” or polished masks the internal work she continues to do she stressed that her public brand does not always reflect private turmoil. She described the weight of expectation she feels: when she reveals vulnerability, people expect her to heal quickly, but recovery is rarely linear or neat. In interviews she’s adamant that she’s not here to preach perfection, but to model honesty.

Her journey is also deeply intertwined with her personal life. During the same interview she alluded to navigating her sexuality and shame, not long ago keeping parts of her identity hidden for fear of judgment. The layers of invisibility she endured from disordered eating to internal conflict about sexual identity speak to how the pressures of image often silence deeper truths. She expressed gratitude for the platform she now holds to share, not to be hero, but to help others feel less alone.

Luxe’s story reflects tensions many influencers know well: the need to perform strength while managing vulnerability, the rejection of superficial narrative in favor of authenticity, and the constant work required to keep boundaries with one’s past. Her voice is part of an emergent wave of creators who share the cracks alongside the shine, refusing to let their worst parts be hidden. If anything, her candidness reminds us that behind the most polished images are lives messy, complicated, human.