Chrissy Metz: 'Skinniness Doesn't Equal Happiness'

She adds that there are too many people who think if "they're not thin enough, they're not good enough."

As big fan of therapy, Metz, 44, knows that it’s important to heal what’s inside, especially after years of her own disordered eating when she'd turn to food for comfort and love.

“I’ve had thin, beautiful women with their jogging strollers tell me, ‘You don’t know how much your story helped me,’” she says with a laugh. “I’m just like, ‘What?!’ But you realize that everyone has their struggles, their anxiety or depression or grief over losing someone. Skinniness doesn’t equal happiness."

However, she is embarking on a new longevity goal, and if she ends up taking a GLP-1, she says it’s her business.

“I never said I was the poster child for body positivity. I just want to do what I can do to live the longest, healthiest life," she says, adding that her own father died from sepsis after getting gastric bypass. "I'm at a stage in life where I don't want that to be me. I wonder if he'd had GLP-1s whether he'd still be around."

Newly in love with an electrical engineer, whom she prefers to keep out of the spotlight, Metz says she and her boyfriend meal-prep together on weekends and she’s gotten into lifting weights.

“I need to strength-train, eat more protein. I want to be mobile. I’m relying on intuitive eating and asking myself, ‘Is what I’m putting in my body harmful or helpful?’" she says, adding, “I want to be health-positive. It’s not that I condone morbid obesity or heroin chic. I condone a healthy body. There are plenty of people who are bigger-bodied and perfectly healthy.”

She notes that all that truly matters is whether she feels good about herself as a person at the end of each day.

“I do my best,” she says of trying to be kinder to herself, especially after growing up feeling "misunderstood."

That includes not beating herself up for any reason: “If I say that everyone is deserving of happiness, that must mean that I am too.”

[quote]But if you already have a restrictive eating disorder and take something that minimizes your appetite, it can become a very slippery slope

I rolled my eyes so hard at this I think I hurt myself.

These medications do have guidelines that doctors should follow. They are not meant to lose 20 pounds or for people who are already at a healthy weight, and I imagine most doctors know this.

If you have a quack who is prescribing it to someone underweight already, then there are avenues to deal with them (like the doctors who "killed" Michael Jackson, Matthew Perry, tens of thousands of opioid patients).

[quote]I need to strength-train, eat more protein. I want to be mobile. I’m relying on intuitive eating and asking myself, ‘Is what I’m putting in my body harmful or helpful?’" she says, adding, “I want to be health-positive. It’s not that I condone morbid obesity or heroin chic. I condone a healthy body. There are plenty of people who are bigger-bodied and perfectly healthy.”

These are all good goals, but someone at her weight probably has multiple comorbidities now.

If the house is on fire, you need to use all tools to get the fire under control and then go from there.

Chrissy Metz has opened up about her health journey, sharing her nuanced views on weight loss drugs, inspired partly by her father's death after a gastric bypass.

Focused on long-term wellness, the actress meal-preps with her boyfriend, practices intuitive eating, and prioritizes strength training over cardio to stay strong and mobile.

Chrissy Metz also split time between Los Angeles and Nashville for a better quality of life and career flexibility.

Reflecting on her father's heartbreaking death from sepsis following gastric bypass surgery, Metz admitted she's determined to avoid a similar outcome.

"I'm at a stage in life where I don't want that to be me," she shared. "I wonder if he'd had GLP-1s, whether he'd still be around."

Focusing on long-term wellness, Metz revealed that she and her boyfriend, an electrical engineer, spend weekends meal-prepping together and that she's recently incorporated weightlifting into her routine.

"I need to strength-train, eat more protein. I want to be mobile," Metz said, explaining that she now relies on intuitive eating and regularly asks herself, "Is what I'm putting in my body harmful or helpful?"

Her priority, she emphasized, is building healthy habits rather than obsessing over the scale.

"I want to be health-positive. It's not that I condone morbid obesity or heroin chic. I condone a healthy body. There are plenty of people who are bigger-bodied and perfectly healthy," she said.

Having been open about her past struggles with disordered eating, Metz also reminded fans that worth isn't tied to body size, noting that too many people mistakenly think that if "they're not thin enough, they're not good enough."

She explained: "I've had thin, beautiful women with their jogging strollers tell me, 'You don't know how much your story helped me,' I'm just like, 'What?!' But you realize that everyone has their struggles, their anxiety, or depression, or grief over losing someone. Skinniness doesn't equal happiness."

In the end, Metz says her journey is about progress, not perfection.

"If I say that everyone is deserving of happiness, that must mean that I am too," she said.

In an interview with Daily Mail, Metz revealed she's been more consistent than ever with weight training.

"I have always enjoyed strength training. I've always enjoyed lifting weights," Metz told the news outlet, adding that she has a preference for cardio. "I don't want to run unless I'm being chased."

The "American Horror Story" actress also shared that she connects deeply with her trainer, who has gone through his own weight loss journey.

"We have things in common where it's not just like, 'Why are you doing this?' she explained. "Like, I don't want to be yelled at. I want to be lovingly supported in whatever it is that I'm doing."

Metz further noted that her motivation goes beyond the workouts themselves as she's focused on long-term 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," she emphasized, adding that she is "nervous" about aging, and about "osteoporosis or arthritis."

Another recent shift for Metz has been dividing her time between Los Angeles and Nashville, Tennessee, after spending more than 20 years on the West Coast.

"The reason why I'm there so often is that everything is very close in proximity," she told E! News in April. "You can go to three different shows, to great restaurants, in one night. It doesn't take two hours to get anywhere. It's really great."

For the Florida native, the move is also about lifestyle.

"It's just like quality of life as well, you know?" she said. "The Southern hospitality. I grew up in the South. It's very familiar to me. There's a lot of great, great aspects of Nashville."

She's also found that the shift supports her evolving career priorities.

"There's also not work happening in Los Angeles," she explained. "There's just not much shooting here, unfortunately. And because I've been focusing on music, my family's close in Florida. Yeah, it's just where I split my time."

How would she know?

What the fuck is “intuitive eating?”

This sounds like a lot of excuses to remain morbidly obese, which is never healthy.

Getting to the weight she is also involves some seriously disordered eating.

Do a search before starting new threads, OP.

[quote] "I need to strength-train, eat more protein. I want to be mobile," Metz said, explaining that she now relies on intuitive eating and regularly asks herself, "Is what I'm putting in my body harmful or helpful?"

[quote] Her priority, she emphasized, is building healthy habits rather than obsessing over the scale.

[quote] "I want to be health-positive. It's not that I condone morbid obesity or heroin chic. I condone a healthy body. There are plenty of people who are bigger-bodied and perfectly healthy," she said.

[quote] Having been open about her past struggles with disordered eating, Metz also reminded fans that worth isn't tied to body size, noting that too many people mistakenly think that if "they're not thin enough, they're not good enough."

[quote] She explained: "I've had thin, beautiful women with their jogging strollers tell me, 'You don't know how much your story helped me,' I'm just like, 'What?!' But you realize that everyone has their struggles, their anxiety, or depression, or grief over losing someone. Skinniness doesn't equal happiness."

I'm so so SO happy she said this!!

I'm sick of these Ozempic cheaters, who would rather starve themselves to be thin - despite the obvious effect on their health.

Not to mention that they really don't get to enjoy food any more.

Chrissy's approach is a very mentally healthy one.

She is basically saying, "I like to eat."

Good for you, Chrissy. So do I. And you shouldn't have to sacrifice the joy of eating, just to please other people.

So her approach is a very healthy one. She's working out, she's watching her diet, and she's happy.

That's all that counts.

GOOD FOR HER!

Agree 100% with r9.

Another thread on this damn woman and her bullshit rationalizations for being obese?

Tired rationalizations for staying morbidly obese and unhealthy.

Celebs that end up dying young due to overindulgence/bad habits and a lack of people willing/able to give them fearless feedback are a dime a dozen. I agree people should be able to do what they want, but don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining. She'll die happy of cardiac arrest in her 50s. The End

[quote] She'll die happy of cardiac arrest in her 50s.

Burl Ives was a very large man. Well over 300 pounds for most of his acting career.

He lived to be 85.

Shelly Winters was another large actress. She also lived to be 85.

Marlon Brando lived to be 80.

Raymond Burr lived to be 76.

All large people. All lived beyond the average life expectancy.

And normal, "healthy" John Ritter died of cardiac arrest at 54.

You have no idea how long ANYONE will live, R12. Including yourself.

So go fuck yourself, judgmental asshole.

Hm. She's saying that her father died from complications due to gastric bypass surgery (sepsis).

However, which father is she talking about? Her bio-dad apparently wasn't in her life at all growing up (found some articles were he apparently resurfaced when she found fame with 'This Is Us'). He's alive and well and an attorney in Minnesota.

She seems to be talking about her Stepfather, who she says was very abusive to her (according to article linked below) and she wrote about him in a memoir. She refers to him as "Trigger" in the article below. However, in the recent article, she says her dad died from sepsis, a complication of a gastric bypass surgery. AI says that her stepfather died of a heart attack.

Something's not really jibing here.

As someone who has been fat, skinny, and everything in between, I agree that skinniness doesn't equal happiness, but being overweight isn't great either. You can be overweight and not have the usual health problems and live a long life, but at the same time, losing weight makes it easier to move around, to exercise, to stand up, and just makes you feel better. Some of those nagging pains in your feet, knees, or wherever may disappear by shedding as little as 25#.

Doesn't she have kids? Is she not worried about dying on them as abruptly as her father died on her? You can talk about Burl Ives all you want but morbidly obese people simply have shorter lifespans - there's no getting around it.

Neither to cheeseburgers, Chrissy, neither do cheeseburgers.

Chrissy Metz was always fat, unlike all the other people in your list r13, and she's been eating third world country food all her life. In a few years she'll do a Lizzo.

R13--Hello Chrissy! Can I have your autograph?

Yeah it kinda does, Chrissy. But you wouldn't know that because you've always been fat.

She is dangerously, morbidly obese. That's a world of difference from just being chubby.

I'm rooting for Chrissy.

Fuck the haters.

Yes, skininess or a low BMI does equate to some peace, dear, and your intuitive eating is the opposite of healthy. Holding up Burl Ives and Shelley Winters as fine examples of weight supremacy is...bizarre.

"Restrictive eating" is not a problem she has ever had.

[quote] Chrissy Metz: 'Skinniness Doesn't Equal Happiness

THE HELL IT DOESN’T!!!!

[quote] Chrissy Metz: 'Skinniness Doesn't Equal Happiness

It does for me. Lost 30 pounds with the help of Ozempic, and feel much more confident.

Has the white guy with yellow skin commented yet?

“It’s not the size, it’s how you use it….”

I'm underweight, she would hate me.

[Quote] Skinniness Doesn't Equal Happiness

Sure it does.

R13, they were NOT even close to her size. She weighs over 400 pounds.

She is bigger than ever. And that's why they aren't showing her body in any of the current photos of her.

[quote] 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," she emphasized, adding that she is "nervous" about aging, and about "osteoporosis or arthritis."

Osteoporosis? If that wasn't so sad, that would be hysterical. That's the last thing in the world she needs to worry about. She won't be here in 15 years. At her current size, I don't even know how she can get into a car. She probably has a mini van that her boyfriend drives and she sits in the back bench seat

[quote]The reason why I'm there so often is that everything is very close in proximity," she told E! News in April. "You can go to three different shows, to great restaurants, in one night. It doesn't take two hours to get anywhere. It's really great.

What she really means is she can go to 3 restaurants a night and a movie

She's trying to make herself feel better about being fat. She should make an effort to lose weight and stop being lazy about it.

For the person upthread (or maybe it was on the other thread) who said she was "too fat" to go on Ozempic...there have been no reports or information I've read that would prevent a very huge person from going on Ozempic if they weigh over a certain amount, unlike gastric bypass surgery, which DOES carry a big risk the bigger a person is when undergoing surgery.

[quote] very huge person

The correct term is "great, big fat person".

She’s not healed at all. She’s clearly miserable, look at her.

R22 #JeSuisFrau

She’s delusional.

quote[Chrissy Metz] weighs over 400 pounds

And you know this for certain how?

[quote] Chrissy Metz: 'Skinniness Doesn't Equal Happiness'

How would SHE know?! Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.

Chrissy, I'm skinny and you can be, too. Shut your fucking mouth. NO ENTRY.

Whoever said she’s 400 pounds is delusional. She’s well over 600.

I would put her at around 600.

[Quote] I'm sick of these Ozempic cheaters, who would rather starve themselves to be thin - despite the obvious effect on their health. Not to mention that they really don't get to enjoy food any more. R9

Ozempic cheaters? Don’t enjoy food anymore? Fuck off asshole. I’m on Mounjaro and still eat a balanced diet during the week and enjoy cooking and eating great food on the weekend. What the drug helps me do is control portion size lose weight, be healthier and feel great about myself. Down 35 pounds so far and fitter than I’ve ever been.

Using weight loss drugs isn’t cheating and if my success is triggering for you, tough shit.

Mounjaro and Zepbound are like dreams come true.

Skinniness is hard work.

[quote]Chrissy Metz: 'Skinniness Doesn't Equal Happiness'

Unlike ten pounds of chocolate and a gallon of ice cream.

R14 - she was counting on anyone fact checking!

Yeah - first time she ever mentioned this about her stepfather and sepsis.

The problem is - a lot of very obese people tend to live in a fantasy world and spin out all of these objections as to why they can't lose weight. They look to skinny people and say - well I don't want to deprive myself, I want to enjoy life!

As if all skinny people are miserable and aren't having that piece of cake once and awhile.

It becomes a psychological condition after a while - and it's a way of protecting themselves and justifying themselves because they feel like the world is against them.

THAT is what she needs to tackle and have someone say some hard truths to her. I don't think she ever will at this point though - she has millions - she has the money for every psychologist, trainer, chef, coach, etc.

She looks like she's 1 million pounds.

I beg to differ

It does if you’re trying to squeeze through the border of a foreign country you’re going to vacation in. 😙

Just fucking get the shot you Orca. Christ on a crutch there are weight loss shots other than Ozempic.

MARY!!!! R49

We love you, Chrissy!

Get up!

She can’t!

Whatever else her issues are, she clearly has a genetic predisposition to be obese. Like alcoholism, genes are not a get out of jail free card wrt personal responsibility, but people should have some compassion for the innate differences that drive some people to drink to extreme excess or gorge on food.

I think being that huge is probably even harder than being an alcoholic because most alcoholics have a decade or two (or more) of life before alcohol starts to become a major factor. And they have a theoretical chance to step back and say, “Hey, this isn’t working for me” before it gets really back. And a lot of people do (and a lot don’t). She probably became aware of her size and that it was a negative at a very early age, but it was already too late or the family didn’t have the knowledge or resources to adequately address it. I think the criticism of her stepfather for trying to address her weight is interesting. I can’t help but think, “He was right, someone needed to do something.” IMO, the problem isn’t that he made her weight an issue, the problem is that his approach didn’t work.

I think she sounds reasonable. She has to be careful of what she says. She can’t some out and say, “I’d kill 20 puppies if I could be a size 12.” Also, as already pointed out, she has zero experience NOT being morbidly obese. There is obviously some element of denial, but she also lacks the perspective of a normal weight person. I once gained 20 or 30 pounds in a short time and then attended a teen’s paintball birthday party. I was overweight, but not obese according to BMI. I looked normal. But I remember what a wake up call it was when my legs felt like they were stuck in mud. I knew I was out of shape, but my trudging, very occasional jogs didn’t show me the degree to which I’d deteriorated. It was only when I tried to sprint and pivot that I learned what a handicap even 25 or so extra pounds is.

Good post, R56.

Unfortunately, the majority of Dataloungers have zero compassion.

They'd rather just spew hateful comments, and make fun of her.

Like the Mean Girls that they are.

R56 - agree - and it's not just that. Your body can have a 'weight memory' that it gets used to and wants to bounce back to that weight amount. Obesity can trigger a change in the epigenetics of fat cells where that's where it 'wants' to be.

If you've been a higher weight for a few years - let alone decades - then it can be increasingly difficult. There have been studies on this.

Of course, it's not impossible - not at all. But people need to realize there is an additional barrier if you've been heavy for a significant amount of time.

ALSO - the other main problem with becoming 60-70 or more pounds overweight is the reduced ability to exercise or move, which reinforces being sedentary. And even if you work hard and lose 30lbs - you can't really see a difference because of how much additional weight there is.

That becomes very disheartening - you're fighting against your set weight then you work hard for 2-3 months, and you can't see much of a difference.

Moral of the story folks - avoid becoming overweight for an extended period of time. Unfortunately, life and external factors can allow that to happen to many people, if they're not educated about diet and nutrition and keep on top of it.

It seems so stupid to me to criticises this woman’s weight when she was specifically hired to play an obese character. If she wasn’t fat none of you would know who she was

R59 - it's more of watching someone who was making $250,000 per episode not using her immense financial resources to do something about it. You can buy a year's worth of therapy, private chef, trainer, coach very easily with the proceeds of just two of her weekly acting paychecks.

That's part of it - the other part is just a reaction to normalizing obesity in this country and the whole body positivity bullshit. The same reaction to Lizzo, Gabourey, and others.

I think the reaction is more of a response to hearing a lie being promoted and repeated as being true and we're supposed to just nod our heads and agree, when our own eyes can see something is not true.

It's a response to a lie - we all respond poorly to people who we know are lying - no matter what the situation. That's what we're supposed to do - well, maybe except MAGA.

She must have a stink down there. That's all I think of when I see her. That's mean I know.

[quote] 'Skinniness Doesn't Equal Happiness'

Only fat people say this.

Chrissy, maybe being skinny wouldn't make you happy, but are you really happy wiping your ass with a rag on a stick?

Just take the shot, sweetie. I promise you'll never look like Kate Moss.

I don’t know why she’s resisting GLP-1s. She going to end up on one anyway when she gets diabetes.

There is also the fact that being huge is her niche as the patron saint of plus size frauen in middle America who needs someone to normalize being a big gal. If she lost a ton of weight she’d lose her meal ticket since she’d be just another mediocre character actress. It would be the weight loss version of Jennifer Grey ‘s nose job.

Also her character on This Is Us was incredibly unlikable and her interviews give the impression she’s on some level equally insufferable, especially around weight and weight loss.

Leave this poor woman alone.

She's not hurting anyone. Least of all, Dataloungers.

She's in a profession in which eating disorders are the norm. She's just not taking speed or making herself throw up.

R61 is a deplorable

[quote]She's in a profession in which eating disorders are the norm. She's just not taking speed or making herself throw up.

She HAS an eating disorder. A BMI of 50+ isn’t from “not taking speed”.

[quote]There is also the fact that being huge is her niche as the patron saint of plus size frauen in middle America who needs someone to normalize being a big gal. If she lost a ton of weight she’d lose her meal ticket since she’d be just another mediocre character actress. It would be the weight loss version of Jennifer Grey ‘s nose job.

Money doesn't matter that much when you're DEAD. She'll end up having a heart attack within a few years. 99.99999% of people her size do not end up living to retirement age (65)

R9 fell for that article hook, line and sinker.

“If she decides to take a glp-1”

Please. She’s probably been taking it for years. I love how all these morbidly obese people all of a sudden understand diet and exercise. Trust me, it didn’t suddenly click for her at 44. She is taking the shot AND she is starving herself AND she is working out. You want to work out more when you see the pounds fall off. Trust me I know. You get excited when you see that you can fully function on one healthy meal a day. And you start fasting. It works that way.

She could easily lose 300 pounds and still play fat characters. Look at Melissa McCarthy. I don’t know why she insists on being perfectly round.

What’s eating Chrissy Metz?

^ Dermatophytes