Naya Rivera Opens Up About Anorexia And Abortion During 'Glee'

Were you a HUGE Gleek back in the day? If you're like us, Gleeis going to stay in your heart forever. That means that you're definitely a fan of Naya Rivera, who played Santana, and are really excited for her new memoir. It gets SO confessional and personal, we were dying for a sneak peak of it. That day has come and we got exactly what we asked for. She spills so much of her personal life and we want to give her a big hug right now – and after reading this, you will too.

When Gleehit the air in 2009, a fanbase quickly grew for Naya Rivera, who played Santana. 

Even with so many fans, Naya was known to stay pretty private about her personal life. She even explained that she was a Christian but doesn't ever talk about it because people start judging her for her choices. 

Naya is straying from her private lifestyle and spilling a lot of her secrets in her upcoming memoir, Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes and Growing Up.

Let us tell you ahead of time, Naya gets REAL in this book and the topics she discusses are pretty heavy.

You've been warned.

She spills that she got an abortion back in 2010 when Gleewas just gaining some major popularity. She didn't want a pregnancy to get in the way of her career that was just taking off.

At the time, she was pregnant with actor Ryan Dorsey's child. The two had just split up when she found out and she admits that she got the abortion without telling him. 

As if that wasn't hard enough to open up about, Naya also writes about her struggle with anorexia. 

"By the time I was a sophomore, I started feeling that what had begun as a game had maybe gone too far. I just avoided food at all costs," she writes.

She says that she would always just throw her lunch in the garbage, but says she didn't realize the severity of her eating disorder and thought it was totally normal.

She confessed, "I was juggling my feelings and it makes me sad that there are girls still going through that 15 years after I went through it."

Today Naya is married to Ryan Dorsey and they have a son together. 

A SUPER adorable son at that. Naya says that she hopes one day he will read her book and give him a better perspective on the issues women face.

As for sharing some of her deepest secrets, Naya says it was "very scary to open up about everything."

We don't blame her!

She writes, "It's not something a lot of people talk about, but I think they should. I know some people might read it and say, 'What the Hell?' But I hope someone out there gets something out of it."

We're so happy that Naya felt comfortable enough to share her very important story.

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