Publicly and casually (over the course of November 21-23, 2015) disclosed in a series of blog postings and tweets that he suffers from Body Dysmorphic Disorder, and also disclosed he'd had several cosmetic surgery procedures because of the Dysphoria, which he considers a plastic surgery addiction. In one of his postings on the subject (in reference to
Episode dated 20 November 2015 (2015)), he wrote: "Saw Eugene Bata on @GMA in the Body Dysmorphia segment connected to my article and I just want to say he is hot af." - Reid Ewing (@media_reid) on November 21, 2015 (He had also written an article which was published approximately at the same time, and was picked up by
Good Morning America (1975), which was doing a segment on the disorder. It was unclear which came first, his article, or GMA's intention to do a segment about Body Dysmorphic Disorder, although it would seem that GMA intended to do the segment before he wrote the article.
