Michelle Duggar is the proud mother of 19, but putting her body through all those births wasn't an easy feat and she even admitted to battling an eating disorder when she was a teenager, Breaking Celebrity News is reporting.

According to excerpts from the Duggar family's upcoming book obtained by People, her daughters speak of their mother saying she "had what everyone else wanted, but on the inside, she felt sad and empty" and thought emulating a destructive eating disorder "might work for her, and soon her obsession to stay thin started controlling her life."

But she then met Jim Bob when she was 16-years-old and told him her bulimia secret.

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"The freedom came when I talked about it," she said.

"I met Jim Bob and he and I were in a dating relationship and I loved this guy and wanted to marry him. We were talking future together and I remember that I felt like I had to tell him everything, everything about myself. You can't keep secrets from the man you want to share your life with. I shared this struggle with him and he said he would help me and help keep me ac