The 35-year-old singer has revealed she was a "really heavy child" and her actor dad tried to help her shed the pounds by sending her away to attend special weight loss treatment program - and she got in trouble when she suffered an injury which hampered her efforts to slim down.
During an appearance on Bunnie Xo's Dumb Blonde podcast, Elle explained: "I was, like, a really, really heavy child. My dad sent me to fat camp. And then I got in trouble one year because I sprained my ankle and I didn't lose any weight. Very toxic and very silly."
Rob Schneider's relationship with his daughter Elle King has been strained at times. (AP PHOTO)
She went on to open up about her difficult relationship with her actor father admitting they went "four or five years without talking".
King added: "I disagree with a lot of the things that he says. You're talking out of your ass and you're talking s*** about drag and, you know, anti-gay rights ...
"He's just talking out of his ass and I want to use this opportunity to say that I disagree. I do not agree with what he says."
Schneider and King's mother London King divorced in 1990 and she was raised by her mother and stepfather in Ohio. The singer had a strained relationship with The Waterboy star as a child and only reconnected with him as an adult.
She added of their turbulent relationship: "If I would ever spend a summer with my dad it would be on a movie set. I would just get lost in the shuffle. If I ever messed up a shot, if I ever was talking, I would get in ... trouble ...
"My dad forgot about every single birthday. I spent my 18th birthday in a summer school and they brought me cupcakes and I came home and my dad forgot my birthday."
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