{alltv} Dana Delany Recalls Her Botox and Eating-Disorder Nightmares

Monday, October 4, 2010

{alltv} Dana Delany Recalls Her Botox and Eating-Disorder Nightmares

Think getting Botox is just a silly little procedure with no potential long-term downside? Listen to actress Dana Delany's story. "Seven years ago, I had never heard of Botox," the former Desperate Housewives star tells Prevention magazine in its November issue. "My dermatologist was saying, 'You should try it.' He injected my forehead, hit a nerve, and created a huge hematoma. The nerve has been dead ever since. It affected the muscle in my right eye, so my eye has started to droop a little bit." The experience left Delany, 54, wary of plastic surgery, and impressed by women in Hollywood who shun it. "I won't do it, no," she says. "My hat's off to Jamie Lee Curtis. She's so smart, and she doesn't dye her hair or anything. And Meryl Streep still looks like herself. Diane Keaton, too. I think the really great actresses don't worry about that kind of thing." Delany, who stars in the new ABC medical drama Body of Proof, also relates her struggles as a young woman with an eating disorder. "When I was a teenager and in my twenties, I had eating issues," she says. "I binged. I starved. I was one step from anorexia — a piece of toast and an apple would be all I would eat in a day." But despite her misadventures with Botox and food, Delany says she has a healthy outlook when it comes to the heaviest issue of all — her own mortality. "I think I have a pretty good relationship with death," she says. "Ever since I was a little kid, it wasn't something I feared." To hear more from Dana's interview visit prevention.com, or pick up the November issue of Prevention magazine, on newsstands tomorrow.