Ke$ha’s mentor, music producer Dr Luke reportedly encouraged the singer to “shove her hand down her throat” in order to lose weight.

Ke$ha is currently in rehab being treated for anorexia and bulimia and according to her mother Pebe Sebert, she has been put under immense pressure in order to stay skinny from not just Luke but other members of her entourage.

“It wasn't just Luke. She had an advisor who told her he had a meeting with a record company and they said she better lose 15lbs. in the next 30 days,” Pebe said.

"He told her he didn't care if she shoved her hand down her throat or took illegal drugs, but she had to lose the weight.

“Everybody in the industry has thrown up! Ke$ha's been in the bathroom with other celebrities throwing up!

“Who knows who's the one who's gonna have the heart attack or the stroke? She was really good at hiding it.”

Pebe also revealed that there is a lot of pressure within the industry to look a certain way.

“She had been dieting and exercising and she got really thin and Luke told her she wasn't thin enough and needed a trainer, but I couldn't afford a trainer as a single mom. She came home a month or two later so skinny,” she said.

“She told me she was juicing and hiking Runyon, but she was throwing up. I knew at some point she'd done it. I told her it was dangerous. her teeth, her voice. She'd swear she wasn't doing it anymore, but had a breakdown right before Christmas and told me she'd been doing it pretty much on a daily basis since two months after she signed with Luke.”

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