Mrs. Doubtfire star Harvey Fierstein is opening up about his body transformation while taking a weight loss drug.
“At the most, I lost 120, and then I put 15 back on, which I’ve sort of stayed at that,” Fierstein, 70, told Page Six in an interview published on Sunday, December 22.
Fierstein joked that he considered the years of the COVID-19 pandemic to be his “free years” because he “existed on the screen of my Zoom.” During that time, Fierstein wrote his autobiography, I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir, and began quilting.
When he was at his heaviest, Fierstein shared that he was at about 310 pounds. Now, he’s at 200 pounds. While jokingly making a jab at Ozempic, Fierstein shared that he’s on a different type of weight loss medication called Zepbound.
“I’ve been skinny before, that’s the sad part,” he said. “I’ve been skinny, I’ve been fat, I’ve been skinny, I’ve been fat.”
While explaining why this weight loss time is different, Fierstein pointed out it’s “what the drug actually does for you.” Fierstein explained that he doesn’t feel like he’s “dieting” while taking the weight loss drug.
“I feel like a normal person,” he said. “I can go and have dinner with friends and not have to eat every piece of bread on the table and not then go have ice cream when I’m done with dinner. I know what it is to be full like a normal person.”
Fierstein noted that “people don’t understand that being fat is not a choice.” He added, “It’s something that your body is out of whack and this puts your body in whack. I’m a great believer in it.”
Fierstein, who recently opened the Harvey Fierstein Theatre Lab at the Library for the Performing Arts, is best known for playing Frank Hillard in Mrs. Doubtfire.
The movie, which is based on Anne Fine’s 1987 novel Alias Madame Doubtfire, follows Daniel Hillard (Robin Williams), whose wife, Miranda (Sally Field) files for divorce and he decides to spend more time with his kids by posing as elderly British nanny Mrs. Euphegenia Doubtfire.
Fierstein’s character Frank, helped him create the Mrs. Doubtfire costume. He has since starred in films and shows including Independence Day, How I Met Your Mother, Nurse Jackie and Bros. Fierstein reunited with Williams in 2002’s Death to Smoochy.
Years later, Williams died by suicide in 2014 at the age of 63. Before his death, he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease with early symptoms beginning in 2013. In the years since Williams’ death, Fierstein has continued to pay tribute to the actor.
“We lost this precious jewel 5 years ago,” Fierstein wrote via Instagram in 2019. “I miss him.”
“[It] was a little difficult for me because I wanted to share with people [who] would be like, ‘How did you do it?’” Fedotowsky, 40, exclusively told Us Weekly. “I lost 20 pounds training for the show. I was working out two to three times a day. My whole day. This was my job for two months. I put everything else to the side.”
According to Fedotowsky, her husband, Kevin Manno, “even took over” parenting children Molly, 8, and Riley, 6, so she could get in shape for Special Forces.
“I was training hardcore. And so, for me, I kept saying to people online, I’m like, ‘Oh, well, I work out two times a day,’” Fedotowsky said. “I know that’s not possible for most moms out there. Moms are busy or people have jobs. I couldn’t tell people this was my job for two months.”
She added, “So, now I’m happy that I can finally tell people, ‘Look, my transformation is not normal. It was my job for two months. That’s why I was able to make this happen. Don’t compare yourself to me.’ That was difficult for me not to have that honest conversation.”
Fedotowsky wanted to get in better shape before she took on the Special Forces courses. In addition to focusing on fitness, the Bachelor Nation star also followed the advice she received from past recruits.
“I talked to Hannah Brown, Beverley Mitchell and Nick Viall, and Beverley told me, ‘Do breathing exercises, focus on the mental.’ That actually really helped me,” Fedotowsky told Us. “I looked into Wim Hof breathing exercises, I was doing meditation and I hired a breathing coach. I really went through it.”
Viall, 44, competed on season 2 of Special Forceswith Mitchell, 43, and expressed to Fedotowsky that the show was “way harder than it looks.”
“He’s like, ‘You are going to be so upset when you watch the show and you see all the stuff they don’t show. It’s a TV show. They have to cut [it] down,’” Fedotowsky recalled. “He’s like, ’It’s going to eat you alive.’ But you’re like, ‘Oh, I didn’t see that we were going through that.’ Or when you saw Tyler Cameron puke last season, you’re like, ‘Why do you puke? Didn’t look that hard.’ It’s, like, ‘Well, it must’ve been that hard vomiting.’ And so there was that. I think the overall sense I got from the past cast members is they were just so grateful to be a part of it. They’re like, ‘This is going to change your life.’”
“I wanted to prove I was a badass. I’m like, ‘I want to prove myself physically. I want to train as hard as I can, make it to the end. There was no quitting in my mind,’” she told Us. “My girlfriend made me a ring and the inside said, ‘Keep beeping going,’ and she’s like, ‘No matter what.’ I couldn’t wear the ring on the show ’cause you can’t wear jewelry, but I kept thinking about it. ‘Keep going, keep going. Just keep beeping going.’”
Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test premieres on Fox Wednesday, January 8, at 8 p.m. ET.
“So guys, I posted photos from Jingle Ball. I got a lot of comments that were really quite shocking,” the Real Housewives of New Jersey star, 48, said in a TikTok video uploaded on Monday, December 16. “People calling me plump, juicy, full-figured, big. All sorts of comments like that.”
Goldschneider shared that the remarks were “not helpful” even if they were meant with the best of intentions.
“You can compliment me without commenting on how much weight you think I’ve gained or what you think of the size of my body. That’s No. 1,” she continued. “No. 2, if you think my body size is full figured and big, I suggest that you sign off of TikTok and OnlyFans and Instagram and you look around the real world and see what a real woman’s body looks like because real women are not skin and bones.”
Goldschneider explained that if she wanted to lose weight quickly, she could start using medications like Ozempic. However, that method is not what works best for her wellbeing.
“If you’re on [Ozempic] — fine,” she said. “But I choose not to do that because I strongly feel that humans are meant to feel hunger and they’re meant to eat food and they are not meant to be skin and bones.”
Goldschneider implored her followers to be mindful of the words they use — especially around young women.
“If you have a daughter, I beg of you, please do not compliment her by telling her the size of her body is bigger,” she advised. “Or just don’t talk about the size of her body unless there’s a medical issue that you need to address.”
Goldschneider explained that in most scenarios, “if somebody’s gained weight, I guarantee you they know it.” She also shared that she wasn’t going to let the comments break her especially when she’s been candid about her struggles with an eating disorder.
“If your intention was not to compliment me but to passive-aggressively insult me and to throw me off my game, that will never f—ing happen,” she retorted. “I recovered from 20 years of anorexia, and I am so proud of myself, and I also happen to think that my body is strong and beautiful and, frankly, it’s a work of f—ing art. So enjoy looking at it. And yeah, that’s it — good talk, guys.”
Goldschneider previously opened up about her struggles in her 2023 memoir, The Weight of Beautiful.
“I lived a life dominated by starvation, where no one dared to ask me if I needed help. For almost two decades, my diet followed a strict set of rules that were never stretched or broken, bound to maintaining a dangerously low body weight,” she penned. “There was no flexibility, there were no days off from exercise, there were no indulgences. And for all that time, through dating and marriage, infertility, parenting, and eventual fame, it was all done in secret.”
Before opening up about her condition, Goldschneider attempted to hide her struggles but many of her RHONJ costars addressed their concerns for her wellbeing including Margaret Josephs and Jennifer Aydin. Goldschneider later revealed that being on the reality series helped during her recovery.
“[The show] did help me recover. … I don’t think I would have recovered if I was the only one holding myself accountable,” she said during a January episode of Jana Kramer’s “Whine Down” podcast. “So having the show, so that I could do this on a public stage, was really helpful to me.”
Kimberly Williams-Paisley is grateful she had husband Brad Paisley by her side as she weathered a private health battle that left her feeling “invisible.”
Williams-Paisley, 53, opened up about her road to recovery in an interview with People published on Wednesday, December 18, revealing she “felt trapped in my own body” while struggling with severe voice loss.
The trouble started in fall 2022 when Williams-Paisley noticed she couldn’t speak.
“It was terrifying. I went to self-blame,” the Father of the Bride actress recalled. “‘I’m not breathing properly, I’m not relying on my vocal training.’ I was beating myself up.”
Paisley, 52, supported his wife as she looked for answers. “I’d give her advice. ‘Do this vocal warm-up with me,’” he told the outlet. “I stepped in[to] it so much!” Williams-Paisley, however, was more grateful for how he lightened the mood, adding, “He’s so good at keeping me laughing. That’s a gift.”
During her health battle, Williams-Paisley was at her “most vulnerable” with Paisley and their sons: William, 17, and Jasper, 15. “They were great cheerleaders for me,” she noted. “To see them embracing me made me feel less alone.”
Williams-Paisley first opened up about her struggles in August after undergoing vocal cord surgery to correct a partial paralysis of her left vocal cord.
“I’ve been going through a thing. Almost two years ago I lost my voice on stage at my Alzheimer’s event in Nashville. It was embarrassing & scary & it never quite came back. It’s been a challenging couple of years, but we finally got to the bottom of it,” she wrote via Instagram. “I have damage to my laryngeal nerve. I was finally able to have surgery this week at @vanderbilthealth with expert surgeons, & it is sounding so much better!! I have a badass scar that’s smiling at me across my neck.”
At the time, Williams-Paisley admitted she was hesitant about addressing her health publicly, adding, “I’ve been through shame & self-loathing, all kinds of training, breathing techniques, & braces & healing & laughing & crying & explaining. I’ve met many amazing helpers along the way who’ve become amazing friends & I’m feeling SO GRATEFUL.”
“THE OTHER GOOD NEWS: In the last two years, I’ve found power in using my voice in new ways. I’ve healed old emotional wounds,” she continued. “I’ve learned the strength & beauty of silence. I’ve become a serious meditator. I’m deadlifting over a hundred pounds. I’m taking better care of my body. I’m managing stress. I’m dissolving shame. I’m feeling more whole, empowered & joyful.”
Before realizing she needed surgery and being diagnosed with muscle tension dysphonia, Williams-Paisley consulted a voice coach and tried acupuncture and massage to soothe her vocal cords. She also explored antidepressants, Invisalign braces, a vegan diet, hypnosis, a psychic and an astrologer — but nothing helped.
“[There were] days when I didn’t want to do anything. Days when I was extra tired. Cycling anxiety thoughts in the middle of the night. I wouldn’t say I had clinical depression, but I was sad,” she told People. “There were days when I grieved and sobbed. I wondered, ‘Who am I without my voice?'”
Two years after it inexplicably disappeared, Williams-Paisley isn’t shying away from making her voice heard.
“Now, no matter what my physical voice is, my voice underneath is stronger. I feel more confident. I know myself better,” she shared. “I still can’t yell down the road. And at the end of a long day of talking, I’ll sound a little more raspy than I used to, but I think that’s sexy. And I’ve learned that when you talk quieter, people lean in, which is not bad either.”
She concluded: “I feel empowered now. I don’t want to leave things unsaid. I never want to take my voice for granted — and I want to be brave in using it.”
Jacob Roloff’s wife, Isabel Roloff, wanted all the dirty details about her gallbladder after undergoing surgery earlier this month.
Isabel revealed via social media on Monday, December 16, that she asked her physician if it was possible to receive photos of the removed organ after it caused her so much pain.
“I asked my surgeon to take pictures of my gallbladder during surgery,” the Little People, Big World alum said in an Instagram Story post, noting that her surgeon showed her the pictures before she was discharged later that same day.
Isabel recalled her doctor telling her the gallbladder was “going to burst” and was full of “hundreds of stones,” even going so far as to compare the enlarged organ to “the size of a golf ball!”
The reality star added that she would show her followers the pictures, but confessed that the post “might be too graphic.”
Isabel gave her fans a scare on Monday when she revealed that she was headed to the emergency room for “pain meds.” She updated her followers later that day explaining that she’s been “living with chronic gallbladder pain for at least four years” after a 2020 unspecified diagnosis.
After visiting a nearby urgent care for abdominal pain, she was advised to go to the ER where doctors performed an emergency gallbladder removal surgery. “I actually woke up crying from such instant relief after the surgery,” Isabel said via Instagram, noting she still had “some pain” from the incision site.
Isabel later confirmed that she was “headed home” on Monday, sharing a photo of herself in a wheelchair with a “Feel better soon” balloon.
Since getting home, she has had help from her husband, 27, with recovery. “This guy has been a really good ‘nurse’ taking good care of me,” Isabel shared via her Instagram Story on Tuesday, December 17, posting a photo with Jacob.
Jacob and Isabel tied the knot in September 2019 after dating five years. They welcomed their first child, son Mateo, in 2021.
Just a few weeks prior to Isabel’s emergency surgery, she and Jacob celebrated Mateo’s third birthday with a party at the Roloff family farm in Oregon, where they live and work.
“What a great day celebrating our 3 year old Thank you everyone for coming!!” the couple captioned a joint Instagram post on December 8. The truck-themed party featured chocolate chip muffins and Christmas cookies for guests, which included both family and friends.
Since being diagnosed with skin cancer, Teddi Mellencamp has used her platform to remind fans to take care of their skin.
Mellencamp revealed in March 2022 that she had a mole removed on her back. “This is a reminder to please go get your yearly skin checks,” the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum wrote in an Instagram statement at the time, confessing that she avoided her own skin checks “for a very long time” because of “anxiety.”
Fellow Bravo star Kyle Richards was the one who encouraged Mellencamp to consult a dermatologist. “When @kylerichards18 saw my back and it had changed colors again, she immediately took me to the doc who within minutes said it looks like melanoma and did a big removal,” Mellencamp wrote. “Please let this be a reminder to take action on your own skin.”
Later that month, Mellencamp shared the good news that her melanoma was “in situ, which means the cancer cells were contained in that area of my skin and have not spread any deeper.”
She continued: “I really hope that in sharing all of this, I can encourage all of you to get your skin checked annually— if I hadn’t gone in, I don’t want to think about how it could have gone differently.”
Scroll down to follow Mellencamp’s skin cancer journey after her initial diagnosis:
October 2022
Mellencamp revealed that she had been diagnosed with stage II melanoma months after her initial consultation. “Melanoma awareness update. Despite my anxiety, I listened to the doctors and went in for my 3-month skin check last week since my previous melanoma,” she wrote via Instagram at the time. “They said I had another abnormal spot near my last one so they did a biopsy. I got the call this morning: Stage 2 melanoma.”
She told fans to take doctors’ orders seriously, writing, “Moral of this story: if a doctor says, ‘come in every 3 months’ please go in every 3 months. I so badly wanted to blow this off. ‘What could happen in 3 months?’ I thought. Apparently a lot.”
Mellencamp noted that she used to put baby oil and iodine on her skin as a teen to get tan and didn’t start wearing sunscreen or getting her moles checked until she was 40. “This has been such a wakeup call for me, and I hope to all of you, to love and protect the skin you’re in,” she concluded.
Mellencamp revealed in another Instagram post that she had two more moles removed that also came back as melanoma. “Due to so many melanoma’s [sic] in one are, they are worried to cut in there and try to remove because they aren’t sure what they would be cutting into,” she wrote, before detailing her new treatment plan, which involved undergoing a PET scan and seeing a hematology specialist and a surgical oncologist.
October 2022
Mellencamp shared the results of her PET scan via Instagram, including snaps of where her melanomas were removed. “They think I’m predisposed to melanomas,” she noted. “I will need wide encision [sic] surgery removal and nodal mapping. During the surgery they will also do a sentinel lymphoid biopsy. Because with a PET scan they can’t see if it’s spread to lymph nodes.”
She got candid about her post-op recovery in another social media update days later. “I don’t share this for sympathy- I am sharing because one of the things that keeps me going through all of this is your messages telling me you are getting tested,” Mellencamp wrote. “I am grateful to my family, friends and husband who welcomed my pain and anxiety with open arms. I you all so much and I just know I am going to kick this cancer’s a**- with the help of my incredible doctors and nurses of course.”
Mellencamp ended the post on an inspirational note, writing, “Life comes in waves and we will always be stronger for it… on the good days and the bad .”
Mellencamp showed off her back and shoulder scars while revealing that her multiple melanoma removal surgeries were successful. “The margins are clear. I also got genetic testing results and there are no mutations we need to worry about,” she stated. “And I just had a healthy mammogram (please don’t forgo these either, ladies). So I say peace out to 11 melanomas and 3 lymph nodes— I gladly hardly knew ya— and hello to a new sense of peace.”
The “Two Ts In A Pod” podcast cohost continued: “It’s been eye-opening how quickly things can change and it’s a lesson I will never forget, nor quit speaking up about. I want nothing more than for all of you to be proactive so you do not have to experience this. Let my scars be your inspiration to get preventative care.”
January 2023
Despite her previous removals, Mellencamp developed three new spots that “needed to be biopsied.” She explained via Instagram, “I have had both white and brown melanomas; this is why I continue to share to get checked no matter what.”
She also asked doctors about a suspicious bump on her neck. “The ultrasound came back irregular,” Mellencamp noted. “I had the option of a needle biopsy or getting it cut out completely; the doctor recommended the biopsy to start, however there’s a small chance it’ll come back inconclusive and we will then have to remove it.”
Mellencamp said she was “dealing as best I can with something out of my control,” adding, “Things I can control: staying on top of my appointments, self-checks, and asking my doctors questions.”
Mellencamp partnered with the Melanoma Research Foundation to help raise awareness for skin cancer by showing off her biopsy scars in a “#GetNaked” campaign photo shoot. That same month, she encouraged fans to add sunscreen to their daily skincare routines.
September 2023
More than one year after her initial diagnosis, Mellencamp revealed that another of her biopsied spots came back as melanoma. “I can’t even remember if this is the 12th or 13th one,” she captioned a tearful selfie via Instagram. “At this point, I am starting to black-out these memories like a portion of my childhood. I slept maybe 2 hours last night because my mind was racing.”
Although the melanoma was caught early, Mellencamp explained that she would need “another surgery next week and additional biopsies.”
One day later, she said “the key” to dealing with her multiple health scares was “getting out there and moving my body, releasing my emotions [and] fixing my mindset.” She added, “Whatever you’re going through, letting the negative fester only holds you down. And we aren’t here to be held down. We are stronger than that. We are meant for more than that. So if you’re struggling with something today, this is for you.”
After undergoing multiple biopsies, Mellencamp revealed via Instagram that the area of her melanomas on her back is too “broad,” adding that doctors “no longer feel comfortable cutting [into it.” She explained, “They said I can wait a week so I can show at nationals but upon my return I will start on a 5-week immunotherapy cream.”
The cream is supposed to help the body’s immune system attack cancer cells and comes with side effects such as fatigue, blisters and inflammation. “Stay vigilant on getting your skin checked my friends. We can fight this ,” she concluded her post.
December 2023
Mellencamp opened up about a setback in her treatment.
“Long story short: The immunotherapy treatment did not work on my melanomas. I had a wide excision removal on my most recent melanoma last week to see if it did and sadly it did not,” she captioned an Instagram photo of her back, which displayed her scars from past procedures.
Mellencamp then shared that she will undergo surgery on December 26 “to remove a larger portion of the problematic area.”
She wrapped up the post by reminding her followers to “book your skin checks for the new year.”
Weeks later, Mellencamp had a “wide excision melanoma” procedure, which “went well.”
“I specifically went through a ‘wide excision melanoma, soft tissue defect reconstruction with adjacent tissue rearrangement.’ Basically, they cut out the area of my shoulder and replaced it with a flap of skin from below on my back,” she wrote via Instagram. “But the pain and discomfort are all worth it.”
She added: “The outpouring of love and prayers in the comments and DMs has left me speechless (which is tough). I wish I could respond to everyone but please know I am forever grateful. Please get your skin checked. I promise you do not want to go through this.”
March 2024
Mellencamp gave an update on how her scars were healing three months after her initial surgery.
“What a difference 3 months can make!” she wrote via Instagram alongside before and after shots of her back. “My scar is healing nicely, and I have the best doctors to thank.”
While the marks were improving, the former reality star revealed that her doctor had noticed a new spot in another section of her body that needed to be checked out.
“But in full transparency, also during my three-month checkup, there was one abnormal spot the doctor felt we should biopsy,” she continued. “It’s on the other side of my body, so praying it’s nothing. But [I] felt it’s a great time to remind you to get those skin checks .”
December 2024
“I just got done having a little cry, but it’s a good one. It’s the first time in over two years I’ve gone in for my three-month check and not had to have a biopsy because I have another cancerous spot,” Mellencamp tearfully told fans in an Instagram video. “Both me and my doctor, we just looked at each other and we were like, ‘What?’ It was, oh my gosh, such a good feeling.”
Noting that she will have another check-up in March 2025, she continued: “This should be a reminder to all of you guys, please, please book your skin checks, book your mammograms, book your OBGYN appointments, book your eye doctor appointments.”
Mellencamp also shared a “scar update” photo of her back. “Over 1000 stitches later. Get your skin check please,” she wrote over the pic.
Brittany Mahomes continues to hit the gym in the third trimester of her pregnancy.
Brittany, 29, shared her workout routine via Instagram Stories on Monday, December 16, showing off her baby bump in a video where she lifts weights and does squats and lunges. She sported a lavender set by Vitality and white sneakers with her long, blonde hair pulled back into an easy ponytail.
The clip was first posted by Brittany’s trainer, Kirsty Rae, who captioned it: “Third trimester is my fave stage of pregnancy when it comes to training. there’s studies that show your body basically goes into superhuman mode to prepare for childbirth. so badass.”
In another video, Brittany tilts her head to the side as she snaps a selfie during a break. “Feeling very pregnant,” she wrote in a caption, adding a laughing emoji.
Earlier this month, the wife of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes posted footage of herself working out in a cheetah print one-piece.
“We workin,” Brittany wrote on December 3, referencing Rae.
She and Patrick announced in July that they are gearing up to welcome baby No. 3. “Round three, here we come,” the couple announced in an Instagram post at the time.
The pair tied the knot in March 2022, two years after he proposed. They are already the parents of daughter Sterling, 3, and son Bronze, 2, both of whom appeared in Brittany and Patrick’s pregnancy announcement.
Brittany has been showing off her maternity fashion while supporting her husband at Chiefs games, and with Rae’s encouragement, has offered an inside look at her prepartum workouts via social media.
“Many women experience what’s called ‘mom butt’ during and after pregnancy, which happens when the glutes lose shape and muscle mass,” Rae explained via Instagram in late October. “This is often due to changes in posture and how we move as our bodies adjust to pregnancy.”
In the accompanying video, Brittany could be seen working out to avoid this particular phenomenon.
“By focusing on glute engagement and maintaining strength training, you can actually continue to build muscle,” the trainer added. “It’s all about proper movement, posture, and progressive overload.”
The day before posting her latest fitness regimen, Brittany stepped out on the sidelines of Patrick’s latest away game against the Cleveland Browns on Sunday, December 15. She paired a beige puffy jacket, emblazoned with “Chiefs,” with fuzzy earmuffs from Prada.
Ahead of kickoff, Brittany made sure to spend time with Patrick on the field, and they shared a sweet sideline kiss.
“He doesn’t get nervous or stressed at all. That’s just what he likes to do,” Brittany said during an August appearance on the “WHOOP” podcast, noting that she gets more anxious about the games. “I think he loves going into a new week having new game plans, having new challenges, having new people that he’s playing.”
Florence Pugh has never been afraid to call out unattainable Hollywood beauty standards throughout her career.
In 2019, Pugh famously hit back at a review that compared the size of her thighs to those of the WWE pro Saraya Jade Bevis (a.k.a. Paige), who she portrayed in the movie Fighting With My Family.
“Oh dear,” she tweeted in response to the Evening Standard’s story that March. “Singling out my ‘chunky’ thighs doesn’t help normalizing an ‘all shape & size’ Hollywood. In fact that’s part of the problem. I do hope people take more away from the film than the circumference of my hams.”
The Oscar nominee has also sparked conversation with several of her stunning red carpet looks. In particular, the pink, see-through dress she donned at the Valentino Haute Couture Fashion Show in July 2022 made headlines as it showed off her nipples.
Clapping back at haters, she wrote via Instagram at the time, “What’s been interesting to watch and witness is just how easy it is for men to totally destroy a woman’s body, publicly, proudly, for everyone to see. You even do it with your job titles and work emails in your bio. … It isn’t the first time and certainly won’t be the last time a woman will hear what’s wrong with her body by a crowd of strangers, what’s worrying is just how vulgar some of you men can be.”
Scroll below to read Pugh’s most empowering body positivity quotes over the years.
To quote Sydney Sweeney’s Euphoria character, she’s “never, ever been happier” — and that means body-shaming comments won’t faze her.
“I see it, and I just can’t allow myself to have a reaction,” Sweeney told Variety in March 2024. “I don’t know how to explain it; I’m still trying to figure it out myself. People feel connected and free to be able to speak about me in whatever way they want because they believe that I’ve signed my life away.”
She added, “It’s this weird relationship that people have with me that I have no control or say over.”
The Anyone But You star, however, still remembers that she operates on “a human level” first, aside from being solely an actress. Part of that mindset includes living her best life.
In December 2024, she was photographed in a lavender bikini, which prompted unprovoked comments about her weight. She swiftly clapped back, sharing the worst ones on her Instagram in a montage of her workout routine. (Sweeney had been bulking up to play boxer Christy Martin in a biopic.)
Suffice it to say, Sweeney has become one of Us Weekly’s favorite body positive icons. Scroll before for more of her tips and tricks:
Finding ‘Power in My Femininity’
While speaking with Variety in August 2023, Sweeney reiterated that she’s proud of who she is.
“I find power in my femininity,” she stressed. “I use my brain, and I use everything that I’m learning every single day in this industry as my power. Knowledge is everything.”
A Confident Queen
In September 2023, Sweeney told Women’s Health that she tries to be her own role model.
“I look up to the older version of myself,” she said. “When I was 10, I looked up to the 25-year-old version of myself, and now I look up to my 50-year-old version. I hope I make the decisions she would be proud of.”
And yes, Sweeney is proud of where she’s gotten thus far.
“Whenever a new challenge presents itself and I’m not scared to push myself to try, that’s when I’m really proud of who I am,” she noted. “I know that my body can keep going — it’s more just that mental challenge to push myself through. I take that skill into skiing, into acting, into anything I do, because it’s always more mental than physical. Of course, you have to train, but it’s mind over matter at the end of the day.”
Growing up, Sweeney would cover up her body underneath baggy clothes.
“When I was in high school, I used to feel uncomfortable about how big my boobs were,” she told Glamour UKin December 2023. “I used to say that when I turned 18, I was going to get a boob job to make them smaller. My mom told me, ‘Don’t do it. You’ll regret it in college.’ And I’m so glad I didn’t. I like them. They’re my best friends.”
Eventually, Sweeney learned that her mother, Lisa, was right (as so many moms are!) about the mindset.
“Once I became more confident with myself, [it changed]. I want to show girls that it’s amazing and beautiful and empowering to have the bodies that we have,” the actress explained. “Everybody’s body is beautiful. When you are confident and you’re happy within, it really shows to other people. … Flaunt what you got. Own it. Love them.”
She’s ‘Unapologetically Myself’
“I’m always really proud to be very unapologetically myself and the director of my own life,” Sweeney told People in August 2024, noting she uses fashion to “embrace different sides” of her personality.
She continued, “Some days, I might feel very girly, some days, I might feel edgy. Others, I might feel like I want to be more laid-back. It’s a way of being able to express those different sides of how I feel or who I am.”
It’s All About Balance
Sweeney also prioritizes her physical and mental well-being.
“It’s definitely an ongoing challenge and journey that I’m trying to find within myself, and every day poses its own challenges,” she told Real Simple in September 2024. “I’m a firm believer in balance in every aspect of life. … I like to stay constantly going — it fuels me and makes me really happy.”
Training Hard
Sweeney overhauled her workout regimen to portray former pro boxer Christy Martin on the big screen.
“Over the past few months, I’ve been immersed in training to bring to life the story of an incredible woman — a true champion who fought battles both inside and outside the ring,” Sweeney wrote via Instagram in October 2024. “Her journey is a testament to resilience, strength, and hope, and I’m honored to step into her shoes to share her powerful story with you all.”
Three months later, Sweeney was criticized by online trolls for putting on weight. She clapped back by editing together a video of the mean comments and footage from her workout, captioning it, “Christy Martin Strong.”
Sweeney, 27, didn’t take the digs lying down — and swiftly shut them down by posting them to her Instagram. In a Friday, December 13, social media video, Sweeney made a montage of all the criticism.
“Too pale and she needs to lose a few bonds around the model,” one wrote, as another chimed in, “Whoever this individual is, she has a horrible body.”
Other social media users called Sweeney’s body “very chunky” and speculated the actress could be an “Ozempic candidate.” (Ozempic and similar semaglutides are prescribed to individuals who struggle with weight-related conditions. The injections are not recommended for casual weight loss.)
Sweeney reposted the video to her Instagram Story on Saturday, December 14, with the caption, “Christy Martin Strong .”
Sweeney was recently cast as Martin, a former professional boxer, in an upcoming biopic.
“Well, the cats out of the bag … so here’s a little BTS from my film I’m working on right now,” the Anyone But You star wrote via Instagram in October. “Over the past few months, I’ve been immersed in training to bring to life the story of an incredible woman—a true champion who fought battles both inside and outside the ring.”
Sweeney added, “Her journey is a testament to resilience, strength, and hope, and I’m honored to step into her shoes to share her powerful story with you all. More to come soon.”
Sweeney’s impassioned clapback was also supported by a number of her peers in Hollywood. She even reposted makeup artist Melissa Hernandez’s own comments about the video.
“PERIOD!” Hernandez wrote via her Instagram Story. “So proud @sydney_sweeney for embracing her transformation for this role — your dedication and strength are truly inspiring. It’s heartbreaking how cruel and miserable people can be, but don’t let their negative overshadow your brilliance.”
Rachel Brosnahan, Isabela Merced and Lili Reinhart were among the other celebrities to have Sweeney’s back.
“It’s always wild to see people publicly out-themselves as pieces of s— with comments like that,” Reinhart, 28, replied on Friday. “You look incredible and your dedication to your project is very inspiring .”
Merced, 23, for her part, added, “The thing is these people would never say it in person. Too scared. But if they ever did? best believe it’s hands .”
Sweeney’s mother, Lisa, also noted in a separate comment that she was “beyond proud” of the Euphoria alum.
“I got what’s called a lip flip,” she explained. “It was my first ever. And everyone was like, ‘You’re gonna love it, you little lips.’ And I didn’t love it because I couldn’t smile and I was like —”
Trainor then contorted her face, attempting to show the cohosts what she looked like post-Botox fail.
Despite the experience being what she called “the most painful thing,” Trainor was able to look back on it with humor, even going so far as to poke fun at herself for not realizing what she was getting into.
“And I was like, ‘This is gonna look great!’ And my dad walked in while I was having it, and I was like, ‘Oh no,'” she explained, adding that she received additional Botox.“in my jaw because they say it can help you with clenching.” She believes “the mixture of the two” led to the overall Botox debacle.
Today cohost Jenna Bush Hager joked that Trainor could now give a PSA about the possible risks of Botox injections. Turns out, Trainor did exactly that on the November 20 episode of her “Workin On It” podcast.
“To all my fellow girlies out there who’s in your 30s: Hi, I got too much Botox. I need help,” she said with a laugh. “I messed up. Listen, I’ve had Botox, like, a handful of times … just in my forehead and someone convinced me, with my little lips, that if you did a lip flip, you put filler right above your upper lip that you could have a beautiful flip on your upper lip. And I could have one for the first time in my whole 30 years of living. It was not true.”
Although her Botox experience did not go as planned, Trainor has explained why she wanted the treatment in the first place.
“I just want to freeze myself right here. I want to look like this forever,” she said on an August 2023 episode of her podcast. “But I don’t need Botox as much as they say. Mine lasts so long, it’s great.”
The incident has not deterred Trainor from exploring additional cosmetic procedures, either. In fact, said she plans to get a boob job.
“My mommy boobies were full of milk and now they’re empty and then they’re full of milk and now they’re empty,” she explained. “They got big, they got small, they got big, they got small. I’ve lost some weight and I have, like, saggy sacks as boobs.”
Katharine McPhee has learned to give herself grace when it comes to her health and nutrition after struggling with an eating disorder for years.
“I’ve really been a big believer in intuitive eating,” McPhee, 40, exclusively reveals in the latest issue of Us Weekly while celebrating Bio.me’s new Daily Prebiotic Fiber flavors, chocolate and chai. “If your body is craving things that are heavy in fiber, heavy in protein, [it’s] because your body needs those things.”
The actress explains that she tries to be “mindful and logical” about what she eats, noting that if she’s “craving” something she doesn’t deprive herself. “You just let yourself have it,” she says.
McPhee explains that whether it’s a stop at Burger King — which she tells Us was her most-recent indulgence courtesy of her husband David Foster, who is “obsessed” with the chain — or drinking a milkshake, it doesn’t matter — she’s listening to her body.
“The problem is [when] you’re having, like, three milkshakes instead of one,” she adds. “So I’ve been into intuitive eating for a long time.”
McPhee — who sat down with Us earlier this month at the Bio.me’s APRÉS BIO.ME launch event at Little Lunch in Venice Beach, California — notes that listening to her body also means not having “so many rules and regulations” during certain times of the year.
“I had a lot of issues around food,” she recalls. “And the more pressure that I had put on myself, like, ‘Oh, my God, it’s the holidays. Don’t go crazy. You can’t eat this,’ the more crazy that I went.”
McPhee opened up in February 2010 about her seven-year battle with bulimia, telling Shape that “the more I focused on my weight, the worse my bulimia got.”
“Now I’m more easygoing,” she told the publication. “I stopped fighting myself and became more forgiving of my body. Ironically, the weight came off naturally through exercise but no dieting.”
At the time, the Broadway star said she stopped paying attention to the scale and focused instead on being healthy. When McPhee was pregnant in 2020 with her son, Rennie, she went through another bout of “body-issue stuff.”
After gaining 40 pounds, the singer confessed that she worried she might backslide into her disordered eating habits. “It just suddenly came up in a way that hadn’t been present in a long time,” McPhee explained during a March 2021 episode of the “Dr. Berlin’s Informed Pregnancy” podcast. “Feeling like there was a relapse after getting pregnant was shocking and upsetting and concerning for me because I was suddenly so obsessed with food, starting from this first trimester, and I had such a distortion of the way that I looked.”
It took the Smash alum time to realize that feeling “ravenous” in her first trimester wasn’t the “eating disordered-version” of her, but what she needed to fuel her body during pregnancy. Since welcoming her son in February 2021, McPhee has continued to embrace her body’s signals.
Part of that process means treating the holidays like a “continuation of the rest of the year.” She tells Us, “You can indulge a little bit, but it’s no different than indulging on Valentine’s Day and indulging on the Fourth of July.”
McPhee continues, “I don’t feel pressure on myself, just the more pressure you put on a certain time, the more you’re likely to overindulge. So that is the principle I live by — not setting such rigid rules for myself.”
Outside of giving herself grace with food, McPhee tells Us she’s been doing her best to improve her gut health. “I’m a big believer in that the gut is essential to great, strong immunity,” she says, pointing out that she’s “always been into” probiotics and yogurts.
Adding fiber into her diet, however, has been a tougher feat. “We all know fiber is important,” McPhee explains, revealing that like protein, fiber is a must-have to keep your gut in check, which is why she takes supplements.
“I’m thrilled to have another thing to make it easier to just feel good,” she says, gushing over Bio.me’s new Daily Prebiotic Fiber flavors. “I have a lot of joint issues, even for only being 40, I have a lot of aches and pains from years of dancing. So all that kind of [fiber] stuff is a [godsend].”
Learn more about gut health innovator Bio.me and its new Daily Prebiotic Fiber flavors at bio.me.
For more on McPhee’s health journey and plans for the holidays pick up the latest issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands now.
Raven-Symoné recalled having her first breast reduction at 15 years old.
“I had my first breast reduction at 15,” she revealed on the Thursday, December 5, episode of her “Tea Time with Raven & Miranda” podcast, which she cohosts with wife Miranda Pearman-Maday. “I went from a triple D all the way down to a B.” The now-38-year-old added, “Someone said I needed to do it in order to get a show.”
Raven-Symoné, 38, is perhaps best known for her role as Raven Baxter on the Disney Channel original series That’s So Raven, which she landed when she was 15 years old. “It’s going in my book,” Raven-Symoné continued. “At the same time, I’m like, if you’re gonna take my boobs out, I wanted lipo. I was like, ‘One-for-one, bro. Let’s go.’”
That’s So Raven aired on Disney Channel for four seasons from 2003 to 2007, with Raven-Symoné as the titular character. (She also reprised the role in the spinoff Raven’s Home from 2017 to 2023.)
“I felt like boys watched the show because I had big boobs,” Raven-Symoné said of That’s So Raven on her podcast. “I feel like that was the case. They came for the boobs and stayed for the comedy.”
She added, “There’s this beautiful embracing of the body now that I didn’t get as a young girl.”
Raven-Symoné and guest Michelle Buteau continued to discuss their shared history of breast reduction surgeries including her “anchor scar.” Raven-Symoné explained, “When you have a breast reduction, underneath the areola they make a little incision and they come down straight underneath the boob and, like, filet you from the bottom and it looks like an anchor.”
The That’s So Raven alum added, “Yeah, it’s different, because when you gain weight those boobs come back no matter what. They come right back.”
Raven-Symoné first opened up about her surgeries in an episode of her and wife Pearman-Maday’s podcast in August 2023, where she revealed that she “had two breast reductions and lipo before I turned 18.”
At the time, she noted that there was “paperwork involved” for her to get the procedures because she was still a minor. “My dad suggested strongly that I should get my breasts reduced,” she revealed. “And he was like, ‘So you don’t feel bad, is there anything that you want?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, if I get lipo, will people stop calling me fat?’ And so, I got a twofer.”
Her first surgery came with complications, as the actress suffered a seizure when she awoke from the anesthesia. She also recalled the challenge of going through such a painful recovery at a young age. “I have scars. I still have scar tissue to this day,” she shared. “And I gained weight after and had to, like, go back for a quick little, like, [get] a little bit more out ‘cause [my breasts] were still too big for others’ feelings.”
Ariana Grande has heard it all about her body, and she’s had enough.
The Wicked star recently appeared on the web series Oui Oui Baguette where she vented about the body shaming she has faced since first entering the public eye as a teenager.
“I’ve been doing this in front of the public, and kind of been a specimen in a petri-dish since I was 16 or 17,” she said as she fought back tears on the Thursday, December 5, episode. “So I have heard it all. I’ve heard every version of it, of what’s wrong with me. And then you fix it, and then it’s wrong for different reasons.”
Grande, now 31, knows the issue isn’t reserved solely for those in Hollywood.
“It’s something that is uncomfortable no matter what scale you’re experiencing it on,” she continued. “Even if you go to Thanksgiving dinner and someone’s granny says, ‘Oh my god, you look skinnier, what happened?’ or, ‘You look heavier, what happened?’ That is something that is uncomfortable and horrible no matter where it’s happening.”
“There’s a comfortability that people have commenting onthat I think is really dangerous.”
She added that those comments, even if they don’t come from a place of malice, are dangerous.
“However you all can protect yourself from that noise, whether it’s at a family reunion or online, you keep yourself safe,” she said. “Because no one has the right to say s—.”
As host Crazy Sally applauded and her Wicked costar Cynthia Erivo backed her up with an “amen,” Grande cracked a smile.
“Can you tell I needed that today?” she asked.
Afterwards, Grande was appreciative of Sally for giving her the opportunity to speak on the subject. Sally promoted the interview by posting a picture of herself with the two actresses, and Grande expressed her gratitude in the comments.
“Thank you so much again for your warmth and kindness,” she wrote. “It felt like a big, beautiful hug meeting and speaking with you.”
Grande has been candid about the topic in the past as well. In 2023, she explained in a video via TikTok that people comparing her present appearance to how she looked in the past is dangerous.
“For me, the body you’ve been comparing my current body to was the unhealthiest version of my body,” she said. “You never know what someone is going through. So even if you are coming from a loving place or caring place, that person is probably working on it or has a support system that they are working on it with.”
She added that she “shouldn’t have to explain” her body and “you’re beautiful no matter what you’re going through.”
Ozempic has become a hot topic when it comes to weight loss — with some stars confirming they have used the drug while others denied it.
Chelsea Handler admitted during a January 2023 episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast that she unknowingly took the Type 2 diabetes medication, which is traditionally used to improve glycemic control. She explained her anti-aging doctor prescribed her Semaglutide, which is another name for Ozempic, but Handler stopped using it after learning more.
“I’m not on it anymore. That’s too irresponsible,” Handler clarified. “I’m an irresponsible drug user, but I’m not gonna take a diabetic drug.”
Kyle Richards, meanwhile, was accused of using the diabetes medicine in January 2023 after posting a picture of herself showing off her abs in a bathing suit. “I am NOT taking Ozempic. Never have,” Richards commented on Page Six’s Instagram at the time.
See what celebrities have said about Ozempic — and other weight loss drugs like Mounjaro — below:
“I took, like, a little bit when it first came out, and everyone was doing it,” Nader, 27, exclusively told Us Weekly at the Bio.Me launch event on Tuesday, December 3. “It made me really nauseous. I liked it — I am not going to lie — and when I went on Dancing with the Stars, I could not do both.”
Nader found that she “lost a little bit of the motivation and the strength to work out” when she took Ozempic shots. (Ozempic, Wegovy and other similar semaglutides are commonly prescribed to individuals, who struggle with weight-related conditions. It is not advised for casual weight loss.)
“It was one or the other, and I picked dancing. I put the shot away,” Nader added.
Nader competed on season 33 of DWTS alongside pro partner Gleb Savchenko, which aired its finale late last month. Nader and Savchenko, 41, were eliminated from the competition in October.
Nader’s Ozempic use was initially discussed in a recent TikTok video where Nader’s sisters called her out for dropping 20 pounds on Ozempic. The model succinctly replied, “Don’t, Don’t!” in the clip.
“Those little brats. I was like, ‘Are you enjoying this?’” Nader quipped to Us about the viral remark. “I can’t get away with anything around them. … They run around the house and they just rat me out on everything. If you want anything ask them, they will tell you all my secrets.”
“I lost a lot of weight, like, especially towards the end,” Nader said. “I lost, like, 10 or 15 pounds. I kind of loved it, but also I would be like, ‘I wasn’t toned.’ It’s a thing and then I got really, really toned because … it’s, like, subconscious; you’re dancing six hours a day and then, when you finally get a moment to look in the mirror, you’re like, ‘Oh, wait a minute, OK. This is paying off in more ways than one, so I loved that aspect.’”
After her elimination from the ballroom competition, Nader was worried about the toll it would take on her newly toned body.
“My first thought was ‘Oh s—. What is going to happen to my body?’” Nader told Us on Tuesday. “I was nervous if I was gaining weight or not even gaining weight [and] just, like, not being toned.”
Nader did end up gaining a “little weight” back, which she notes “is fine.”
As a model, Nader is used to staying in tune with her physical health so a partnership with Bio.Me makes sense. The company recently released a new collection of Daily Prebiotic Fiber flavors (chocolate and chai). Nader uses them daily, putting them in iced coffee and morning smoothies.
“I’ve tried so many different probiotics and things that are supposed to help you with your gut health, being a model and traveling a lot and trying to stay in shape, I’ve tried it all — and this one actually works,” Nader told Us. “It also is tasty, and it’s not a hassle to take. You’re not taking a bunch of supplements. It’s really yummy and I love that about it.”
She added, “I know it’s cute, it is so chic. It looks very medical, like, we’re doing something really good. … [It] helps keep you regulated, it is very good for cleansing and I really enjoy it.”
Nader also can appreciate that taking the Bio.Me supplements directly affects her mental health.
“I only learned recently that your gut health and mental health are directly related and correlated, which is crazy, and obviously, mental health is super important,” Nader explained to Us. “I feel, like, when we think of gut health, we just think of trying to look skinny or being in shape or whatever. It’s so much deeper than that because everything is rooted in your mental health.”
The pregnant wife of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes worked out in a cheetah print one-piece while showing off her baby bump on Tuesday, December 3. “Back injury who?!” her personal trainer, Kirsty Rae, captioned an Instagram video of Brittany’s fitness routine.
“We workin,” Brittany, 29, wrote when reposting the video on her own social media page.
She and Patrick, 29, announced in July that they were gearing up to welcome baby No. 3. “Round three, here we come,” the couple announced in an Instagram post at the time.
Brittany and Patrick tied the knot in March 2022, two years after he proposed. The pair are already parents to daughter Sterling, 3, and son Bronze, 2, who also appeared in Brittany and Patrick’s pregnancy announcement.
The expectant mom has been showing off her pregnancy style while supporting her husband at Chiefs games, and has offered an inside look at her prepartum workouts via social.
“Many women experience what’s called ‘mom butt’ during and after pregnancy, which happens when the glutes lose shape and muscle mass,” Rae captioned a social media in late October. “This is often due to changes in posture and how we move as our bodies adjust to pregnancy.”
In the Instagram video, Brittany could be seen working out to avoid this particular phenomenon.
“By focusing on glute engagement and maintaining strength training, you can actually continue to build muscle,” the personal trainer added. “It’s all about proper movement, posture, and progressive overload.”
Even though it seems like Brittany is slaying pregnancy this time around, don’t expect her and Patrick to expand their brood any further.
“I’m done, I’ll say that,” the NFL star told reporters during Chiefs training camp in July. “I said three and I’m done.”
Patrick also extolled the joys of being a young father.
“It’s awesome … I always wanted to have kids young,” he continued. “I got to grow up in a locker room and it made such an impact in my life. We’re on our third kid now … Brittany does a great job of doing that and we still go out and enjoy our life.”
Aside from discussing fatherhood, Patrick has also gushed over his sweet relationship with Brittany.
“When you get to come home and your best friend’s there and you can just hang out, it makes you want to be there all the time,” he said on the “Impaulsive” podcast in May. “She pushes me to be great and she’s done a lot of great things herself.”
Valerie Bertinelli is feeling proud of her body and she wants the world to know it.
Bertinelli, 64, took to social media on Tuesday, December 3, to share a mirror selfie of her bikini-clad frame. Looking toned in a black and white bikini as she offered a slight smile at the camera, the Food Network alum snapped the Instagram shot right before attempting to color her roots.
“At some point I will talk about the madness my body has been through this year,” she captioned the candid image. “But right now every lump bump wrinkle and saggy part of me just feels acceptance and simple appreciation to be standing in front of a mirror in a hotel bathroom in downtown Manhattan ready to color my roots late on a Monday night.”
The post arrived just days after the celebrity chef shared via Instagram Stories that she had taken a fall and injured her knee. “I continue to have the knees of a 9 year old because I fall far too often than what is comfortable for someone my actual age,” Bertinelli captioned her Friday, November 29, post.
Bertinelli has documented many significant musings this past year as well as serious health updates including her struggles with anxiety.
On Sunday, November 17, Bertinelli uploaded a clip of her hand shaking, accompanying the video with a brave explanation. “So I don’t know if you can tell from this video (and my heart is still beating a little rapidly as I write this) I had a really bad anxiety attack today. I haven’t had one like this in a very, very long time,” she captioned the video. “A few hours ago, I was weeping uncontrollably, and my heart felt like it was pounding out of my chest. I couldn’t stop shaking.”
Bertinelli continued, “I want to share it because I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one out here who has experienced this. Gratefully these attacks have become much more infrequent, so this one took me a little bit by surprise today. This is the after effect. As I’m going through the actual attack (lol attack is such an appropriate word. My body and my mind feels like it’s actually under attack ).”
She added that her brain was “overthinking and catastrophizing” during these attacks, which makes her body go “into overdrive,” noting that she has “no control.”
Less than one month prior, Bertinelli also shared a dramatic injury on her arm, labeling herself a klutz in the photo’s Instagram caption. “I would ask for hazard pay, but it was my own damn fault,” she wrote to accompany the October 30 post. “I’ve been working on a really fun new project that I can’t wait to tell you about and this is what happens when you literally trip over the corner of a stage and fall on your ass in front of the crew. And the whole audience.”
Khloé Kardashian has come a long way with her weight loss journey — but now she’s wishing she had the option of Ozempic.
“Over the past three years, people are like, ‘You must have gotten surgery because you just lost weight.’ I’m like, ‘It’s been a 10-year journey! What are you talking about?’” the Kardashians star, 40, said in an interview with Bustle published on Tuesday, December 3. “But even if people get surgery or [get on] the Ozempic craze, I’m like, ‘Who cares!’ As long as people feel good about themselves, who am I to judge?”
Kardashian added that she thinks the “judgment” people receive for using medication like Ozempic is “ridiculous.”
“I’m just mad [Ozempic] wasn’t around 10 years ago,” she quipped.
Kardashian explained that her weight loss journey began when she and ex-husbandLamar Odom split. The exes wed in 2009 after a whirlwind romance. Four years later, Kardashian filed for divorce.
Following Odom’s nearly fatal 2015 overdose, Kardashian withdrew the filing to care for the former basketball player. She filed for divorce a second time in May 2016 after he made a full recovery. The paperwork was finalized seven months later.
During Kardashian’s personal struggles, she turned to therapy. However, the reality star claimed that she told her then-therapist “something private” which later ended up in a tabloid.
“There’s no way this could have gotten out there,” she told the outlet. “So I stopped going to therapy and started going to the gym. I needed a release, but I did not trust anybody else anymore. And the place that I felt the safest was the gym.”
While Kardashian found herself at the gym, she wasn’t looking to become more confident in the skin she was in. Instead, she was looking to become stronger both physically and mentally.
“As a byproduct, my body started changing. I loved the way I felt,” she explained of her lifestyle change. “I loved testing myself and challenging myself. And I’ve been doing it for 10-plus years now, and I love it.”
However, Kardashian confessed that she still struggles with her self-esteem despite the progress she’s made.
“Looking back, when I was bigger, I thought I was the hottest thing in the world. I had so much more confidence the bigger I was, which is what’s crazy,” she confessed. “The more in shape I am, the more insecure I can get because I’m so hard on myself. It’s a vicious cycle that you don’t get out of.”
Kardashian shared that while she’s also hard on herself, it was the comments from others about her weight loss journey that took a toll.
“But when I started losing weight, I got the same thing,” she said. “I was fat-shamed every day when I was bigger, and then when I lost weight, people were like, ‘How dare you, you are so insecure, you’re following society.’ And I’m like, ‘OK, you guys are so confusing!’ I realized you’ll never make everyone happy. I have to do what’s best for me.”
Brooks Nader and her sisters participated in a viral TikTok trend over the holiday weekend — and spilled some major tea on each other.
In the video, Nader, 27, and sisters Grace Ann, Mary Holland and Sarah Jane run around a pool while calling each other a “suspect” before sharing various secrets about each person. At one point, one of Nader’s siblings called her out for allegedly using Ozempic.
“Suspect randomly lost 20 pounds,” her sister said during the Friday, November 29, clip. “Says it’s from working out, but she got on Ozempic.”
At that point, Nader stopped her sister midsentence and said, “Don’t, don’t!” before grabbing the phone to stop the video.
Nader’s siblings also roasted her love life, with one of them saying, “Suspect claims to have a completely full roster but the same guy comes over every night.”
That quip could have been a reference to Nader’s former Dancing With the Stars partner, Gleb Savchenko. Us Weekly confirmed in September that the duo were “hooking up” after being paired together for DWTS season 33.
Following their elimination from the dance competition in October, an insider told Us that Savchenko, 41, had “ended things” between them. The source added, “Brooks is continuing to live her best life.”
Now, however, the duo are playing coy about their relationship status after making a steamy appearance on the DWTS finale last week.
“It was amazing to be back in the ballroom,” Savchenko told E! News on November 26. “I love dancing with Brooks. We have so much fun in the ballroom, outside of the ballroom.”
Nader, meanwhile, told the outlet she had “so much fun” on DWTS with Savchenko.
“I will be there, yeah, Thanksgiving,” he told Extra. “I’ll be there. It’s all about the family.”
Nader noted that she planned to do very little prep for the big day. “I am hosting at my house, and all my sisters are going to be there. No one’s cooking, Raising Cane’s — this isn’t an ad — but they will be involved,” she explained to Extra. “I’m ordering everything. I’m not cooking anything.”
In the same interview, Savchenko said that he loved getting another chance to dance with Nader following their elimination.
“Listen, we do have a crazy chemistry, and being in the ballroom after five weeks, having a break — it was amazing,” he said. “Joey [Graziadei] and Jenna [Johnson], congratulations to them, they were incredible tonight and everyone else, and we killed the rumba. I felt like we could have been in the finals.”