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Christina Ricci has set out on a new career – as an eating disorder counselor.

The 28-year-old star has been candid about her battle with anorexia during her teen years. And according to reports, she has registered for a series of online classes to become a certified counselor to girls struggling with their self-esteem.

A source tells Star magazine, “Christina went through hell and back growing up. For years she struggled with her self-esteem, so she knows how hard it is for young girls.”

The source added that Ricci hopes “to learn how she can help them get better without having to go through all the pain she did as a child”.

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Christina Ricci was so disturbed by the marketing campaign for her movie Black Snake Moan, she became an activist for rape victims.

The 28-year-old actress starred in the 2006 drama as Rae, a sexually abused girl desperate for male attention.

But when she saw herself appearing on film posters posing seductively in a navel-bearing top and revealing shorts, the actress was prompted to step up her involvement in the Tori Amos-founded organization RAINN (The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network).

She says, “I wasn’t really comfortable with the way (Black Snake Moan) was being marketed and I was trying to combat how exploitive that campaign was, given what I thought the movie was about when I was making it.

“So I became directly involved with RAINN (on the issue of) rape trauma syndrome, and they were like, ‘Wow, you know a lot about this.’

“They asked me to be their national spokesperson, which was amazing. Then they invited me to go to Washington to lobby the Congressional Appropriations Committee for funding for legislation. That was crazy. I didn’t know just anyone could go and meet with congress-people. I kept saying, ‘You guys know I didn’t go to college, right? I’m just an actress.”

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Christina Ricci is living in fear of a wild predator running wild near her Hollywood home.

The star confesses she’s too scared to spend any time outside, convinced the bobcat will savage her.

She says, “There’s a bobcat in my neighbourhood. Now I run from my car into my house. I’m terrified of getting eaten by a bobcat. They eat people.”

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Christina Ricci ranks having to kiss a ghost as the most embarrassing thing she’s ever done.

The star appeared in the 1995 movie version of cartoon show Casper – and insists smooching the computer-generated spook was particularly daunting.

She tells MTV.com, “Kissing Casper was really embarrassing, because he was supposed to be see-through, so I had to make kissing faces, and I was 13, and I was so mortified. Oh that was terrible.”

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Christina Ricci wants to dedicate her career to making family films – because she’s sick of sex, drugs and sleaze on screen.

The star appears in new family-oriented race-car movie Speed Racer, and loved the experience so much she is pushing for more clean-cut roles – and she wants the rest of Hollywood to follow suit.

Ricci, who has played sex-hungry tramps and nymphomaniacs on screen, says, “I wanted to do a kids movie again. I wanted to do a family film. There are so many family movies for kids but they don’t actually teach you anything. Speed Racer really stresses integrity and morals and a love of family, and that’s something I think is really important and a trend we need to bring back.”

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