Rebel Wilson is opening up about her well being. The 44-year-old Pitch Perfect franchise star is releasing her memoir, Rebel Rising, and it unpacks a number of private particulars from her life. During a latest interview, she revealed that she struggled with consuming habits and subsequently tried Ozempic to shed pounds.
“I wasn’t dealing with my emotions properly, I was just stuffing my face and holding on to them,” Rebel informed The Sunday Times in an interview revealed on Sunday, March 31, telling the publication that she was on Ozempic for a short time. “Someone like me could have a bottomless appetite for sweets, so I think those drugs can be good,” she added.
The How to Be Single actress additionally identified that she feels “strongly that young women shouldn’t try to obsess over looking like Victoria’s Secret models — they should just look like themselves.”
“I know that my relationship with food is complicated,” she continued.
Rebel defined in her memoir how she developed her previous consuming habits, citing her abusive late father because the catalyst. He died in 2013. While describing one incident with him, Rebel claimed that he hit her as a toddler and obtained mad at her mom for making an attempt to call her Rebel when her actual identify was Melanie.
“‘I’m going to choke you and kill you if you say one more thing, Melanie,’” Rebel wrote in her memoir about what her father allegedly informed her years in the past. “‘I’m going to throttle you.’”
While chatting with the British outlet over the weekend, the Australia native acknowledged that her consuming habits stemmed from an abusive childhood.
“In those moments when I was worried or scared, I turned to food,” she defined. “I think because I saw my mum do it. Everybody has a coping mechanism — eating is mine.”
After she misplaced weight, Rebel famous that she’s discovered a weight and physique form that she’s glad with, describing herself as “still curvy and solid.”
Rebel’s upcoming ebook — which is slated to come back out on Tuesday, April 2 — tells her story of exploring her sexuality, falling in love together with her fiancée, Ramona Agruma, and her alleged on-set work expertise with Grsimby co-star Sacha Baron Cohen.
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