'Silicon Valley' Actress Amanda Crew on Her Eating Disorder: 'I Thought Being Skinny Was My Value'

Growing up, Silicon Valley‘s Amanda Crew was constantly praised for being skinny. So when she hit puberty at age 14 and her body started to change, she felt like she was losing her identity. “From a young age I thought that being skinny was my value and my worth,” Crew, 31, tells PEOPLE. “So when I started going through puberty, I felt like I was no longer skinny and there was nothing special about me.” Crew started limiting what she would eat, and by age 21, at the start of her acting career, she was deep into an eating disorder. She was 5’9”, but weighed “around 95 lbs. at most.” And being in the film industry didn’t help.