Lucy Hale: 'I would go days without eating'

By Ann Oldenburg, USA TODAY

Posted August 7, 2012

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Lucy Hale, star of ABC's 'Pretty Little Liars' poses for 'Cosmopolitan' mag's September issue. (Credit: By Cosmopolitan)

Pretty Little Liars star Lucy Hale is admitting she has battled body image issues.

"I've never really talked about this," she says in the September issue of Cosmo, "but I would go days without eating. Or maybe I'd have some fruit and then go to the gym for three hours."

Hale, 23, says, "I knew I had a problem." And now she's OK. "It was a gradual process but I changed myself."

She also opens up about her instant attraction to her boyfriend, actor Chris Zylka: "I was like 'holy crap you're gorgeous!' ... It was like no one else was there. We couldn't stop talking."

Meanwhile, PLL fans might want to check out the newly launched "Suspect Tracker" as the show moves closer to its Aug. 28 summer-season finale.