Shailene Woodley arrives at the Earthshot Prize Awards in Boston. Shailene Woodley elaborated on a "personal" health struggle she went through in her early 20s this week. The "Ferrari" actress, 32, said while she was filming 2014’s "Divergent" her health began to deteriorate to the point where she could hardly walk, eat or hear.
"I haven’t spoken about exactly what it was because that just feels like a personal thing that I don’t need to disclose," she told Dear Media’s "SHE MD" podcast hosts Dr. Thais Alialabi and Mary Alice Haney, "but essentially I was in a position in my early 20s, it got to the point where I was losing my hearing. I couldn’t walk for longer than five minutes at a time without having to lay down for hours and hours and hours and sleep.
Everything I ate hurt my stomach. It was this conflation of issues and diagnoses and different doctors telling me different things." She said because she "comes from a very holistic background" and studied herbalism, she decided to work with "real MDs" and "independent healers" in "just trying to search for some sense of comfort in my own skin.
" DICK VAN DYKE, 98, PULLS OUT OF SCHEDULED APPEARANCE AT FAN CONVENTION: ‘MORE THAN HE CAN DO NOW’ Shailene Woodley elaborated on a "personal" health struggle she went through in her early 20s this week. (Jemal Countess/Getty Images for TIME) "And it was a long journey, about a decade of unwinding and healing and getting healthy, and throughout that decade a lot of othe.
