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She still can't reveal what her illness was


I read through this article which is part of a bigger interview from a magazine and it gave no details other than she had "hidden pain" but then she said at the same time during this pain she didn't take care of herself. WTF?

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/shailene-woodley-struggling-debilitating-health-142817697.html

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She has credits listed on IMDB for most all of her 20s, too many to suggest she spent a lot of time on the sidelines.

I'd kind of doubt they would cast her in a planned franchise film series if she had a chronic health condition, either.

It's either some BS made up by a publicist to make her look more vulnerable or its some kind of spin to cover up a lifestyle binge she's worried will make her look bad.

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It could have been sex addiction. Any woman who feels confident enough to post a nude video with other nude women has to be extreme enough to participate in that type of lifestyle: https://twitter.com/bestcelebnudes/status/1410326924786810888

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I don't know that I would consider skinny dipping a form of sex addiction, but its plausible that "a lifestyle binge" could include some kind of sexcapade scandal.

The bigger problem is the lack of a meaningful gap in her career. I think as much as a year, maybe two, between credits isn't entirely unusual, especially considering the fact that credits often list the release date, not the filming date making it hard to spot down time or making even a 1-2 year gap a negligible issue explained by delayed releases or something.

I'd also guess that unless there's solid evidence she spent six months in a cheap Vegas hotel binging crystal and making sex tapes with a has-been/never-was minor player, why would she spin up a story about being sidelined by some mystery ailment? That only makes people think "rehab", "sex/dope binge", etc.

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If alcoholism can be regarded as an illness then so can something more inherent - a sexual mind leading to sexual activities. She's bisexual, which adds a different interpretation to the above video. Maybe she's too embarrassed to reveal that she caught a sexual virus in her twenties. It's only now that she's in a stable relationship.

We could compare the history of Shailene's tweets with IMDB's filming dates. She joined Twitter in December 2011: a month after her 20th birthday, which will make it convenient for us to pinpoint things.

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She's bisexual, which adds a different interpretation to the above video. Maybe she's too embarrassed to reveal that she caught a sexual virus in her twenties. It's only now that she's in a stable relationship.


That actually may be true. Bisexual women are the next in line to be one of the highest groups to carry sexually transmitted diseases next to homosexual men:
https://sti.bmj.com/content/76/5/345.full
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11177481/

A lot of it spawns from the mixture of drug use and promiscuity, and judging by the video, it seems like she may be engaged heavily in both.

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Okay wow that clip is really.... uh.... she posted herself and her friends completely nude on social media without a qualm?

She also has her nipple pierced and a nose ring?

I think you may be right about the sex addiction.

I always took Shailene as more Conservative and Prudish like that Harry Potter chick, but I'm guessing she got Jennifer Lawrence'd by some producer and is now full-on in the sexcapade lifestyle.

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Ironically, Jennifer gave her the following advice before Divergent began filming: "Don’t do drugs, make a sex tape or be an idiot."

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Looks like she did all three. LOL

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You literally sound like you're 80 years old

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She's a free spirit and a bit of an exhibitionist. Doesn't mean she's addicted to sex.

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Except she is polyamorous.

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In all likelihood it could be mental illness

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Yes, and since people in general are so judgmental about that, it's understandable that she wouldn't want to go into detail.

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I don't know if it was strictly mental i.e. "While I was doing the Divergent movies and working hard, I also was struggling with a deeply personal, very scary physical situation."

Whatever it was, her Twitter account gives it away. She joined in December 2011 but didn't tweet anything until September 2015 - a few months before she turned 24 ("I was very, very sick in my early 20s"). Weird how she only began tweeting after the final Divergent movie finished filming in August of that year.

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Thanks, I hadn't seen the whole quote before.

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I've just learned that she was in an abusive relationship in her early 20s, so perhaps she had to turn down intimate roles because her boyfriend threatened her.

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SMOKING THAT SPICE...CRAZY WOMAN.

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Her health condition could be anything and she has the right to privacy its a bit odd why it would be mentioned it's best to just keep it quiet unless it was a slip my mistake.

If it wasn't a slip why not help make the condition aware to the masses this is what annoyed me at times about these people they will jump on stupid causes but ones that could be very important they hide away from.

It does sound like it is either mental health condition or something like CFS/Fibro.

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