Keira Knightley sues over eating disorder claims
Keira says that she is "very sure" anorexia does not affect her
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Monday, 22, Jan 2007 04:13
Keira Knightley has begun legal action against a newspaper publisher over allegations that she lied about an eating disorder.
The Pirates of the Caribbean (PoTC) actress was pictured in the Daily Mail newspaper on the beach in a bikini alongside her boyfriend, the actor Rupert Friend, and remarks were made about her weight in an article about a girl who had died of anorexia.
According to the BBC, Keira claims that the article implies that she has been dishonest in denying having such a disorder.
A statement from her lawyers said that she will challenge the suggestion that she is responsible and to blame for the death of the teenage girl by setting a bad example.
Speaking after the premiere of PoTC: Dead Man's Chest in London last year, 21-year-old Keira said that although anorexia ran in her family she was "very sure" it did not affect her.
"I've got a lot of experience with anorexia - my grandmother and great-grandmother suffered from it, and I had a lot of friends at school who suffered from it, so I know it's not something to be taken lightly and I don't," she said.
"But I don't have it, I am very sure of that."