Teenage star Mary-Kate Olsen has been seeking professional help to recover from anorexia.

The pretty actress, who is a student at New York University with twin sister Ashley, goes to regular outpatient care help meetings for the eating disorder she suffered from last year.

Claiming that Olsen has now relapsed into her old eating habits, her spokesman said: "There is no acute problem right now. She is regularly going to outpatient care. She goes in New York and Los Angeles."

For months, rumours were rife that the actress had been suffering from an eating disorder after she was pictured looking painfully thin. Olsen was admitted to the clinic last June.