In a recent interview with Access Hollywood’s Maria Menounos Ricki Lake, who at her heaviest weighed in at a scale bending 260 pounds, said one of the reasons she used to have to pack her ass into a size 26 pant was because of sexual abuse she suffered around the age of six. Sounds like a contributing factor to me. That and a lot of Big Macs. AccessHollywood.com reports:

“I haven’t been quiet about the fact that I was a victim of childhood sexual abuse and I think it contributed,” she said. “Who knows for sure but I have done many years in therapy and kind of worked on all my issues. Why was I a fat kid? Why did I let myself go to that extreme?”

“Did you find out in therapy that this had gone on or were you already aware?” Maria asked.

“Oh no, I knew, I knew but it wasn’t something I talked about. I didn’t talk about it for 15 or 20 years . . . just because I wanted to kind of bury things,” Ricki said.

In fact, Ricki didn’t start addressing her abuse until she was in her early 20s.

“I don’t blame my parents,” she said. “I don’t think anything could have been done. I think the times were very different back then,” she said. “But I do in some ways think it made me who I am today.”

Lake also went on to say that a lot of women (read: porn stars) become promiscuous after getting sexually abused at such a young age and use their bodies for attention but that she was the exact opposite. She said “food became a comfort” for her and that it was her “security blanket.”

A great, big, gravy-smothered security blanket.

Article Submitted by Paul @ Busted Cranium