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"Nicole Scherzinger credits her boyfriend, Lewis Hamilton, for helping her overcome her eight-year battle with bulimia.\r\nThe ex-Pussycat Dolls singer opened up about her eating disorder for the first time ever during the October 7 episode of VH1&amp;apos;s Behind the Music. According to Scherzinger, 34, it was Formula One racer Hamilton, 27, who &amp;quot;gave me the courage to kind of end that disorder and that disease. He made me feel beautiful for who I am and not what pant size I&amp;apos;m wearing and that helped a lot.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nScherzinger added, &amp;quot;A little light came on in the back of my head and that&amp;apos;s when I started to try and turn this around. I said, &amp;apos;Wow, I&amp;apos;ve got to learn how to accept myself and my body.&amp;apos; I started to embrace myself as a woman and my curves.&amp;quot;\r\nThe pair have dated on-and-off since 2008. &amp;quot;We are both passionate,&amp;quot; Hamilton said. &amp;quot;Together we&amp;apos;ve created a great bond.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nBefore coming clean to Hamilton about her private pain, Scherzinger tried to keep it a secret from her fellow Pussycat Dolls.\r\n&amp;quot;I did it everyday for, like, years. Every time I had a second to be alone, I was doing something to myself,&amp;quot; Scherzinger recalled. &amp;quot;You get, like, blisters on your hands or scars on your hands, and I&amp;apos;d try to hide those. I think the girls could tell.&amp;quot; (Ex-bandmate Ashley Roberts, 31, admitted she and the other band members saw the scars on Scherzinger&amp;apos;s knuckles from making herself vomit.)\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;I guess it was like my addiction, right?&amp;quot; Scherzinger said of her battle with bulimia. &amp;quot;I never did drugs, but kinda doing things to myself was my addiction. It&amp;apos;s like when I got off stage, I was on this high, and I&amp;apos;d come back to my room and I&amp;apos;d be alone, so I would just do things. My bulimia was my addiction; hurting myself was my addiction.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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