Nylon Magazine — BEAUTY & LIFESTYLE

The melanin gods must have been in a good mood when they came across these two!

Actor Zoe Kravitz and singer/actor Brandy shine on the covers on Nylon and Uptown Magazines.

In the August issue of Nylon, Zoe gets personal when she discusses battling with bulimia and anorexia during her teenage years. In her interview with Nylon, the Mad Max star says "It scared the s*** out of me. I was worried about my health. There was, 100 per cent, a voice in my head that said, 'You get to be really thin, and it's OK.' I felt that I could be like, 'I'm not eating anything, and it's for a job.' "

'It wasn't as simple as that before, during, or after, but it made me confront the fact that I still had a problem,' she admits.

As a result of her eating disorder, Zoe got shingles and lost her voice.

"I couldn't sing, which was a wake-up call telling me that I couldn't treat my body that way and expect it to be fine. My hatred for my body and the way I looked was backfiring and taking away what I loved. I heard that so loud and clear," she added.

Uptown Funk Gonna Give it To Ya! In her interview with Uptown magazine, Brandy touched on a number of things including her broken engagement to Ryan Press, what she’ll never do in a relationship again and how her involvement in a fatal car accident took an emotional toll on her.

On her failed engagement, Brandy said,"Ryan and I were just two completely different people and we found that out when we were already in love with each other. Sometimes it happens. It hurt him, it hurt me and it hurt my daughter. It was a really hard time and another phase of the sadness that was a cloud for a while."

On that fatal car accident that left a 38-year-old married mother of one dead. Brandy explained,"I was asking what have I done wrong and what am I not doing? When you are at that type of low your whys come in a lot of different ways. I didn’t want to get out of bed. I didn’t want to do anything. I really stopped dreaming.”

The 36-year-old singer also talked about what she she'll never do in a relationship again, “I will not mix business with pleasure anymore. I think that’s one of the things that does not work for me. I get confused about who a person is. That’s one of the things that I know that I will never ever do if I am ever to have time or make time for another relationship.”

You can check out these stories when the mags hit stands later this month!