This post deals with eating disorders, and could be triggering for some readers.

In 2021, we all saw the incredible Emily Seebohm in action in the pool during the Tokyo Olympic Games.

The Olympic swimmer holds three Olympic gold medals and has 53 medals across the global stage. She's also broken multiple world records and still holds multiple Australian records across backstroke and the 200m individual medley.

Currently, Emily is one of the celebs on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!

And on the show, the Olympian has opened up about her struggles with an eating disorder.

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In 2018, Emily went through a very public break-up.

Emily and her former partner, fellow swimmer Mitch Larkin, were seen as the golden couple of Australian swimming: it was a split very few saw coming. But they soon became embroiled in scandal when claims Mitch had cheated on her arose.

OnI'm A Celebrityon Wednesday night, Emily's fellow campmate, formerMarried At First Sightstar Davina Rankin, asked the Olympian if she had ever experienced the hardship of private matters being made far too public.

"There was a little bit of s**t when I broke up with my two exes," Emily said. "My swimmer partner, I worked out he was cheating. Then he denied it hardcore," she claimed.

As for how Emily discovered the alleged cheating, she shared with Davina that she "saw messages. I had a gut feeling and then I looked at his phone and it blew my mind."

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Emily says she discovered a message exchange between her then-boyfriend and training partner Abbey Harkin. A day later, Emily announced their breakup via Instagram.

Mitch Larkin has denied the allegations. "I did not cheat. I absolutely did not cheat," he told the Courier-Mail in 2018.

The reason for the break-up, Mitch says, was that he had begun to feel "drained".

"I said, 'This isn't good, this isn't what a relationship should be, it's quite draining'. I came back from a training camp in Thailand and ended it. She was really emotional at the time and whether she had seen the conversation (on the phone) and jumped to conclusions," he said during the interview.

After discovering the text messages, Emily announced their breakup via Instagram. "I was stupid. I made it public because I posted stuff. I was so angry," she shared on Wednesday night.

A falling out between the former couple meant they had to engage with lawyers in order to communicate and settle shared assets.

"We had a house, so we had to have mediation: it was like going through a divorce," Emily said.

Speaking to Courier Mail at the time of the break-up, Emily said: "I just want to get on with my life, move on and want nothing to do with him and that is the best outcome. I feel stronger than ever and ready to put all this behind us and move on with my life."

But behind the scenes, she was struggling.

"That experience started me on this really horrible pattern: seeing how long I could go without eating food, over-exercising, have a glass of milk for dinner. It was pretty full-on," she shared onI'm A Celebritylast night.

And while in the depths of her eating disorder, people would "come up to me and say, 'Oh my goodness, you look fantastic what have you been doing?' That fueled the pattern." The Olympian also lost her period for over a year, "because of the malnourishment".

This is not the first time Emily has been candid about her experience.

At the start of 2021, she opened up about her eating disorder via Instagram, in a bid to make others feel less alone in their own struggles.

On Instagram, she wrote: "For over two years I’ve been dealing with an eating disorder. I've binged, purged and taken laxatives. I’ve counted calories, skipped meals and constantly weighed myself. I've been embarrassed to be in my togs. I have judged my body every time I have been in front of a mirror. I've been told that the only way I can swim faster is by losing weight and I have believed it."

Praising the work of Butterfly Foundation, Emily also got a butterfly tattoo as a way to reminder herself "that I can do this!"

She continued: "To give my body the love it deserves, I needed to be honest to everyone including myself. I’m not asking for anything but hoping that I can help someone who could be feeling the same."