Chrissy Metz’s Weight Loss Quotes: From Losing 100-Lbs to Her Thoughts on Bariatric Surgery

Chrissy Metz’s Weight Struggles Began With Childhood Trauma

Chrissy recalled in her 2018 memoir, This Is Me, how her childhood trauma led to food issues that caused the actress to start attending Weight Watchers meetings when she was just 11 years old.

After her parents divorced when she was 8 years old, Chrissy’s mom remarried a man nicknamed “Trigger.”

“My body seemed to offend him, but he couldn’t help but stare, especially when I was eating. He joked about putting a lock on the refrigerator,” Chrissy wrote about her stepdad, adding he forced her to do weigh-ins.

“Maybe he was just fearful. I don’t really know,” Chrissy shared during an October 2024 episode of the self-help podcast “The Jamie Kern Lima Show.”

“Why does my weight equate with my worthiness? And as a 12-year-old kid, it’s like, how do you reconcile that in your mind? It was devastating,” she told Jamie.

“There’s so much stigma about weight. There’s this idea that you can’t put the food down or you’re lazy. I’m trying to heal those wounds slowly but surely,” Chrissy added.

Chrissy Metz Lost 100 Pounds Early in Her Career

As an aspiring actress, Chrissy underwent several dramatic weight swings.

“I’d be getting maybe two auditions a year, and I’d always see the same small group of girls,” she recalled to People in 2017. Chrissy told the outlet she was once a size 12 but lost 50 pounds on the recommendation of her management team prior to her moving to Los Angeles.

The Florida native ended up gaining more that 100 pounds and “eating my feelings.” She suffered a panic attack in a movie theater on her 30th birthday, which led to a lifestyle overhaul in 2010.

“I was so gung-ho, I lost 100 lbs in less than five months,” Chrissy told the outlet about her dramatic weight loss. “All I did was eat a 2,000-calorie diet and walk 20 minutes a day.”

Chrissy Metz Lost Weight for ‘This Is Us’

The actress revealed that her own weight helped her land the role of Kate Pearson on This Is Us, as the character was also undergoing weight struggles.

Chrissy told TVLine in November 2016 that it was in her contract to lose weight on the show so that she could parallel Kate’s journey.

“In our contract, it did state that that would be a part of it, to lose the weight in the trajectory of the character as she comes to find herself,” she explained. “That was a win-win for me. Because it’s one thing to try to do it on your own. But as human beings, it’s an ego thing: We’re more likely to do something for someone else.”

However, Chrissy noted that there was no pressure on her to become someone she wasn’t and that she would remain plus sized.

“I just have to be very clear,” Chrissy told the outlet. “Whether or not I lose weight or stay the same, it’s purely a choice of mine for health. Not because I think that plus size, curvy, voluptuous, big bodies aren’t attractive — because I think they’re awesome and sexy.”

“So, I’ll just have to make sure that’s known, because I’m not selling out the big girls,” she laughed. “I don’t do that. That’s not me.”

Chrissy Metz Started a Fitness Journey to Lose 100 Pounds

The American Horror Story alum opened up about her second round of losing 100 pounds in an interview with The Daily Mail in April 2025.

“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 joked to the outlet while adding how she’s become “consistent” with weightlifting.

The Nashville, Tennessee, resident also revealed her personal trainer had his own weight loss journey, so their fitness relationship was very relatable.

“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,'” Chrissy said about the duo’s one-on-one training workouts.

Chrissy Metz’s Weight Loss Journey Is Tied to Improving Her Overall Health

“I want to age the best way that I can, and I want to be strong. And that’s really the impetus behind any of it,” the Solving Charlie star told The Daily Mail about why she embarked on losing weight and exercising.

“I’m literally doing it because I am nervous about aging, about osteoporosis or arthritis, you know, and because they are now discovering so much about health overall [and] it’s really about being and staying strong and flexible,” Chrissy added.”

Chrissy Metz Feels There’s a ‘Stigma’ Around the Weight Loss Drug Ozempic

While Chrissy didn’t reveal whether or not she used the semaglutide Ozempic for weight loss in her interview with The Daily Mail, she doesn’t hold judgement towards those who turn to it.

“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,” the former preschool teacher continued. “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.”

Chrissy Metz Said She Has ‘Never’ Undergone Weight Loss Surgery

Chrissy’s This Is Us character explored getting bariatric surgery, although she never went through with it. In her own life, Chrissy said she would “never” consider the procedure.

Gastric bypass procedures help patients lose weight by reducing the size of one’s stomach to a small pouch about the size of a walnut leading to the digestive track. Thus, patients become full faster and don’t eat as much.

“It wouldn’t take with me. I could eat past it,” Chrissy said about why she wasn’t a good candidate for the operation. She added about her relationship with food, “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,” she continued. “But like, What’s the bigger issue? There’s a bigger issue for me.”