Eva Longoria during her sit-down with Dr. Oz. (Courtesy of “The Dr. Oz Show”)
Eva Longoria revealed during an interview with Dr. Mehmet Oz that her divorce from Tony Parker really took a toll on her well-being.
The “Desperate Housewives” star and the NBA player filed for divorce in Nov. 2011 after three years of marriage. Longoria said that the months after the split were “probably the time I got the most compliments because I was so skinny.”
“I was not eating. I was depressed. I was sad. My diet was coffee,” Longoria during an episode of “The Dr. OZ Show” that airs today.
“So people kept saying, you look amazing. Divorce agrees with you. And I was like, I don’t feel good. I have no energy,” she continued. “I didn’t know I was depressed. I mean, I knew it was a sad moment in my life, but I wouldn’t categorize myself as depressed.”
The star explained that eventually she got a blood test because she knew something was wrong. She then found out she “was just depleted of every vitamin.”
“[The doctor] said it’s as if somebody took a straw and sucked everything out of your body. You don’t have any iron, your liver’s overacting. It was like all these things were physically wrong with my body, so I had to saturate with vitamins and kind of get back on this track.”
The doctor prescribed Longoria a healthier post-divorce diet.
She told the talk show host, “I cut out all sugar, anything that turns into sugar, is sugar. I love a soda, I’m not a chocolate, candy person, but, I like pasta in anything. For about three months, I did a really strict no sugar diet, and I had more energy than I’ve ever had. My palate was different. Things tasted better.”