Lisa Rinna’s daughter Amelia would’ve relapsed if she hadn’t gone public with eating disorder

Amelia Gray Hamlin, the 18-year-old daughter of “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Lisa Rinna and actor Harry Hamlin, said that had she not publicly revealed her eating disorder, she would have relapsed.

“When you’re in recovery from an eating disorder, it’s so difficult to continue pushing through even when you have bad days where you just want to go back to your old habits,” she said in a new piece for Glamour. “Sharing my story has helped keep me accountable. I want to be a role model, to be strong for all the people who look to me.”

In March of 2018, the model posted on Instagram about her eating disorder, which garnered “likes” from over 38,000 fans. Since then, she has remained vocal on her social media accounts about her progress in the hopes that her voice and her platform can help others.

Amelia said that when followers respectfully stopped commenting about her body on her accounts, they turned to Rinna’s and accused her of triggering her daughter’s issues. “To have people saying she didn’t do enough hurts my heart so much,” Amelia said. “If they could only see how much I rejected her help and how much I pushed her away — it hurts me for her.”

Amelia also said that she can’t watch the footage from “Real Housewives” in which she was battling her anorexia head-on. “I just can’t relive it. I’ve come so far, and it would make me too sad to see how I used to act,” she said.

“Recovering from anorexia — and doing it in the public eye — made me realize just how important confidence is,” she said. “When you truly love yourself on the inside, the way you carry yourself is so different. I think that’s when the judgment stops — when they realize that nothing they can say about you or your body will make a difference.”