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Chrissy Metz Speaks Out About Her 100-Lb Weight Loss: ‘Don’t Believe Everything You Read’
Chrissy Metz is speaking out after her 100-pound weight loss sparked major buzz from fans.
“May I just dispel some rumors? Please for the love of everything, just don’t believe everything you read,” Chrissy, 44, said in a video posted to her Instagram Stories on Monday, May 5.
“Also why, tell me why, are we so transfixed about people’s bodies?” the American Horror Story actress asked her followers. “There are so many things to talk about, aside from of course, everything going on in our world and we choose to focus on the size of someone’s dress.”
Chrissy has long been open about her lifelong struggle with emotional eating but last month she opened up about her recent 100-pound weight loss and the steps she took to achieve it.
“I have always enjoyed strength training. I’ve always enjoyed lifting weights, like I don’t want to run unless I’m being chased,” she told The Daily Mail on April 8. “[My trainer and I] have things in common where it’s not just like, ‘Why are you doing this?’ Like, I don’t want to be yelled at. I want to be lovingly supported in whatever it is that I’m doing.’”
The Nashville, Tennessee native told the outlet that she made the lifestyle changes to her health due to fears about “aging, osteoporosis or arthritis.”
Though Chrissy did not address whether or not she personally used a weight loss aid like Ozempic, she said that she had no judgment toward those who took the drug.
“It’s something I feel like, it is so personal and sure, I think it’s important to, like, destigmatize anything,” Chrissy explained. “But I also think it’s people’s personal decision to decide what it is that they want to do for their body. I think ultimately, at the end of the day, we all just want to feel good and feel good about ourselves. I think if you’re not hurting anybody, and you’re not hurting yourself, you should do what you feel is right for your body or your mind or whatever.”
When it comes to a weight loss procedure like bariatric surgery, the When I Talk to God, I Talk About Feelings author claimed she would “never” go that route because she wasn’t a good candidate for it.
“It wouldn’t take with me. I could eat past it,” she explained. “With anything, it’s a lifestyle change. I mean whatever is best for the person, but, like, also for me, with like a bariatric surgery, so much of my food issues, personally, are psychological in that like, yes, you could sort of put a band-aid on the problem. But like, what’s the bigger issue? There’s a bigger issue for me.”
In her 2018 memoir, This Is Me, Chrissy revealed that her struggles with food began in her childhood. After her mother remarried when she was just 8 years old, her stepfather — nicknamed “Trigger” — began subjecting her to weigh-ins, which eventually led her to attend Weight Watchers meetings by the age of 11.
“My body seemed to offend him, but he couldn’t help but stare, especially when I was eating,” Chrissy wrote of her stepdad. “He joked about putting a lock on the refrigerator.”
The actress also noted within the pages that she believes “everything that happened to me, happened for me” adding, “[I’ve learned] some beautiful lessons.”
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