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"\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\n\n\nKesha (she's now going without the dollar sign, remember) covers the August issue of Teen Vogue, and discusses her eating disorder for the first time following her stint in rehab earlier this year. Though the full feature isn't available until the new issue hits newsstands next month, Teen Vogue have released a frank excerpt from her interview on their website, along with some behind the scenes photos from her cover shoot. And true to her no-holds-barred persona, Kesha gets right to it: \"Let's just get the elephant out of the room,\" she tells Teen Vogue's features director Andrew Bevan. \"My eating disorder is something I've been struggling with for a while. People will make up stories, but I went to rehab for an eating disorder \u2014 nothing more and nothing less.\"She notes that the tabloid frenzy following a series of bikini photos published in 2011 hit her hard, but doesn't (yet) reference any of the alleged conflicts with her former producer Dr. Luke, who reportedly even called her \"a fucking refrigerator\" at one point. She does say that the process of making her last album, Warrior, was miserable, though, and \"it wore my spirit down.\" But she's got that spirit back now!\u00A0\"My whole message is to love who you are and accept all your beautiful imperfections. When I felt I was slipping into unloving territory with myself, I knew I had to listen to my own advice and correct it,\" she continues. \"I have a public persona where I need to be fun all the time, and I refuse to be a hypocrite. I felt I needed to get help, not only for myself but also for my fans. My worst fear in life is to be fake.\"Read more from Kesha over at TeenVogue.com.RELATED: Kesha Is Bringing Her Crazy, Beautiful Self Back to TV Kesha Says Producer Who Called Her Fat Is Reason for Eating DisorderFollow Alex on Twitter.Photo credit: courtesy of Giampaolo Sgura; Teen Vogue"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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