11:59 a.m. EST January 5, 2014  Ke$ha has checked into rehab to treat an eating disorder. The Tik Tok singer said in a statement provided by her spokesman Friday that she'll be unavailable for the next 30 days while she seeks treatment for an undisclosed eating disorder.

"I'm a crusader for being yourself and loving yourself, but I've found it hard to practice," she said.
The 26-year-old vegetarian pop star said she wants to "learn to love myself again, exactly as I am." No other details were provided.

Ke$ha, whose real name is Kesha Rose Sebert, is the performer of such tunes as Crazy Love, Die Young and Timber with Pitbull. She starred in the MTV reality series My Crazy Beautiful Life.

Ke$ha's 'Crazy' life: 'Don't listen to the haters'

The curiously chaotic life of 26-year-old pop star Ke$ha gets the reality-show treatment in MTV's new docu-series Ke$ha: My Crazy Beautiful Life, which premieres Tuesday night (11 p.m. ET/PT). The all-access twist: The show was shot over two years by her filmmaker brother, Lagan Sebert.

Q: What do you want people to get out of the series?

A: To see who I am on stage and how seriously I take it and how hard I work and also how much fun I try to have with my life. Hopefully by seeing that in me, young people will have the confidence, even if they feel imperfect as I always do, to just celebrate themselves and celebrate their lives.

Q: Do you think that the real you comes across?

A: I really hope so and I really think so because throughout the series, it's been my brother filming me. Most of what he is captured is very imperfect. A lot of times I have no makeup on and it's not glamorous at all but you still see me running around the world just trying to get my message across: Don't listen to the haters. Love yourself, love your life, we are who we are. And you see me struggle with that in my own life. I've had so many young people come up to me at my shows and say they felt terrible and hopeless after being bullied online or bullied at school, and that my music really helped them feel like they can be themselves.

Q: With your brother doing the filming, did that lead to any awkward moments? Or was it more beneficial in allowing people to see a personal side of you?

A: It was absolutely beneficial. He has captured some of the most vulnerable, intimate, raw, sad, scary moments in my career. But he is also there when I'm in Vegas getting wasted and kissing people. I trust him so much, implicitly. But there were some awkward moments, like whenever I would make out with a dude, I would always say, "Lagan, earmuffs!" Which doesn't really make any sense, but then he would just cover his ears and keep filming.

Q: These moments that you have on the show, whether it be you being sad or you being happy, you live these moments. What's it like to actually sit down and re-watch them?

A: Well, it's hard sometimes. This is genuine, it's not orchestrated at all. My brother just captured so many different times when a particular blogger would just torture me and make me feel so uncomfortable in my own skin like I was doing something terrible. I consider myself a warrior, that's why I named my record Warrior. We can all come together and be ourselves and love ourselves and be (expletive) warriors and not let the haters get the best of us.

Q: How did the whole idea for the series even come about? Did you go into this knowing that it would end up on MTV?

A: No, I had no idea. My brother is an incredible man. He's been in the Peace Corps and then doing documentaries for very legitimate news organizations. And one day I just realized, "Wait, there are some really incredible things happening in my life and in our family's life that should be caught on film." I finally coaxed him into coming on tour and since he turned the cameras on, they really haven't ever gone off. And it was a huge change and a huge leap of faith for him to just devote his entire life to something that we had no idea what was going to happen with. We didn't know if it was going to be a movie or a TV show or if nobody would care. And then yesterday I got this video of the trailer playing on the biggest screen in Times Square. We had done something so guerrilla-style and now the trailer is playing in Times Square. It was a really epic moment.

Q: Did you find yourself living any differently because you thought it might make for better TV?

A: That's kind of the scary part, that I didn't. There are lots of things in this TV show that I don't think most people would want out there of themselves, honestly.

Q: There are aspects of the show where you are searching for love. Did having the cameras around affect your personal life at all?

A: Not really. At least not on my end, because I live my life as an open book. And I think that if I'm going to find my penguin, my soulmate, that they have to be more than open to what my life is.

Q: You talk about your ex, Harold, a lot on the show. Are you at all nervous for him to see the series?

A: I think it shocked him when I put out The Harold Song but it really is just the ultimate compliment. He is my muse and always has been and probably always will be. I'm a little nervous for him to see it.

Q: Where does your whole love for beards stem from?

A: You know, I don't really know where the sickness came from, but I am obsessed. Any kind of facial hair will do it for me. Even if it's just a five o'clock shadow or a little semi-mustache. I like it all. And I think it might have to do with me being attracted to men that just look wild. Because I'm kind of a wild person. So I think that the wilder the beard is, maybe the wilder the person is.

Q: You have your Tumblr page. How many beards do you think you have actually had in your mouth?

A: Oh, no, I don't know! Like so many, innumerable. I just will put any beard in my mouth. I don't know if it's really sanitary but I just love biting beards. It's just real calming for me.

Q: There has been controversy with some of your past songs. Do you think the series may clear the air or just add more fuel to the fire?

A: Any controversy that has arisen has been unintentional. Specifically, with Die Young (radio stations pulled the song from rotation after the Sandy Hook school shootings), it was just an unfortunate circumstance. I love people, I love my fans and pretty much everything I am doing is coming from a place of positivity, so hopefully people will see that.