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The \"Monster in Law\" actress said that those five beliefs caused her years of pain, resulting in numerous eating disorders and addictions.

\"I have to work every day to be self-accepting; it doesn’t come easy to me,\" she admitted in the interview.

She overcame both addiction and her eating disorders in her 40s, but even 40 years later, it's still an uphill battle.

\"I try to make it very clear that it has been a long and continuing struggle for me,\" she said.

Despite her past challenges, Fonda said she has it easy compared to others.

\"I’m white and privileged, so for people of color, gay people, physically challenged people, it is all so much harder,\" she said, adding that in order to make life better for everyone, there needs to be \"collective action.\"

\"Nothing good ever happened without mass movement,\" she said.

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