Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi Vows To Never Become Anorexic Again

Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi burst onto the scene in 2009 as the self-proclaimed "meatball" on Jersey Shore. At the time, she was not the average stick-thin celebrity. Instead, she was curvy and proud. However, during one episode of the hit series, she revealed a dark secret, telling her co-stars she once suffered from an eating disorder. Since the show wrapped in 2012, Polizzi has gotten substantially smaller, weighing in at just under 100 pounds. But despite her drastic weight loss, Polizzi claims she is healthy and is promising to never go back to her previously unhealthy ways.

“I’m never going back to anorexia again,” Polizzi vowed in the new issue of Life & Style Magazine.

“I became anorexic because of cheerleading. I wanted to be light so people could throw me in the air,” she explained to the magazine. “I got to the point where I only ate ice cubes, all day, for days in a row."

At her smallest, Polizzi was down to just 80 pounds and had her parents worrying that she could die. Luckily, her parent's concern led Polizzi to the realization that she had a serious problem that needed to be addressed.

“I got scared,” she said.

Now, Polizzi is healthy and works hard to stay in shape, but her eating disorder is a constant memory.

“It’s been on my mind. Even before I was pregnant and I started losing weight, I was like, ‘Oh crap, I hope I don’t go back to not eating again,’” Polizzi admitted. “I don’t want Lorenzo to see me go through that. It’s NOT going to happen.”