Penn Badgley, Best Known For His Chilling Role as Joe Goldberg in Netflix’s Hit Thriller You, is Opening Up About a MUCH More Personal Struggle – Body Dysmorphia. While the actor has earned praise for portraying the unsettlingly charming stalker, he recently revised the toll fame and image expectations has taken on his mental health.
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Badgley Reveals His Struggles With Body Dysmorphia
In a candid reflection, badgley shared his unease with the public’s fascination with his dark character, admiting that parts of joe’s twisted mindset uncomfortably mirror apects of his. He also reviewed that he sufered from “Body dysmorphia” as a child, which was, however, not diagnosed by any doctors or psychologists. He Told the Guardian, “I know that I hated my body and simply wanted a different one.”
Badgley added that he desperately wanted to look the men he used to see in films, but “That just see like an impossibility”. He added that he began overeating as a result of social isolation and his parents’ divorce, as reported by the independent.
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The acting industry put his appearance in the spot
As the gossip girl alum made his way into the acting industry, his appearance came under scrutiny. He Told The Media Outlet, “There was just a period where, comeing out of depression and isolation, I was Jumping Wilfully Into, but also Being Thrust Into, This World Where the more Conventionally Beautiful I Successful I might be, the more value I might have. ”
He added, “There’s no way to get past the superficiality of this work, and if you recognize that, you can’t help but recognize the superficiality of our culture, bes of the way of the way it rewards.”
He also mentioned how gossip girls have been related for this reason, as, according to badgley, the cost of the show was famous for their looks. The actor said, “What was that show other than aisthetic? That was it thing, the way we all looked,” He said. “I Didn’Te Particularly Love The Superfitial Celebrity Aspect of the way I was perceived.”
However, he was glad that his time with joe was almost over, as this is the final chapter of you. He shared, “The way this show plays with questions of how we reward bad people, that was a more playful questions We’re not going to be playing with it any longer.
