Sylvester Stallone is opening up about his battles with bulimia, as he says his role in the movie “Rambo” spurred an “obsession” with how he looked.

“I started to think: Design your body like a jaguar, a cat. Not big like Arnold [Schwarzenegger], but more feral and aggressive and very limber and athletic,” the “Rocky” actor said in a sit-down with The New York Times’ “The Interview” podcast, released last weekend.

“Then it became an obsession. Really bad. It got to the point where I became bulimic. You heard it here first,” he said. “I got down to 2.6% body fat when I was doing ‘Rocky III,’ and I couldn’t hold anything down.”

“Or I didn’t want to keep it down because I became so obsessed with staying at that point of fitness, literally an obsessive body-worship kind of thing,” the actor added. “And nobody does it without additives and drugs, period. I don’t care what they say.”

When asked if he’d taken steroids, Stallone said “Oh, my god, you have to.”

“But you do it in a sensitive way — six weeks on, six weeks off. People go, ‘Oh, you don’t get that way naturally.’ No, you don’t. But that also took a terrible toll,” he explained.

Now, Stallone, 80, said he takes “a lot of pills to keep going.”

“It’s come at a terrible price,” he shared. “If I could do it over again, I would say, ‘Let someone else carry the banner and don’t do your own stunts.’ I don’t know what it was about hurting myself all the time.”

Stallone is one of many celebrities who have come forward with struggles with bulimia, including Princess Diana, Elton John, Demi Lovato and more.

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