Los Angeles, Sep 25 (IANS): Hollywood star Shailene Woodley has talked about her health woes, and shared that she "couldn't walk for longer than five minutes at a time" during her 20s.

The 32-year-old actress played Beatrice Prior in “Divergent”, sci-fi film trilogy between 2014 and 2016.

"I haven’t spoken about what exactly it was because that feels like a personal thing that I don’t need to disclose,” she said on the 'She MD' podcast, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

The actress added: "I was in a position in my early 20s, it got to the point where I was losing my hearing, I couldn’t walk for long periods of time without having to lay down for hours and hours and sleep. Everything I ate hurt my stomach."

Woodley recalled going on a "long journey" with her health troubles, as she searched for a solution.

She said: "It was this conflation of issues and diagnoses and different doctors telling me different things. I come from a very holistic background and studied herbalism so I was really keen on, ‘Alright I’m gonna work with real MDs and I’m gonna work with independent healers.’

“And I was just trying to search for some sense of comfort in my own skin. It was a long journey."

Woodley took a decade to rediscover her old self.

The actress explained: "Throughout that decade a lot of other things came from feeling so much discomfort physically, which was ‘My gosh, if everything I’m eating hurts my stomach, I’m now suddenly afraid of food.'"

"And then going into the mental that can happen with that - of body dysmorphia and confusion about identity and feeling safe in my own capsule."