Rebel Wilson reveals her team was skeptical about her weight loss because she was making millions being the 'funny fat girl'
- Wilson embarked on a "year of health" in 2020.
- She lost over 70 pounds.
Last year, actress Rebel Wilson embarked on a "year of health" that led to her shedding over 70 pounds.
In the process, she's become an inspiration for some fans, but the "Pitch Perfect" star admitted recently that even her own team was initially skeptical about her life-changing transformation.
"I got a lot of pushback from my own team actually, here in Hollywood, when I said, 'OK, I'm gonna do this year of health. I feel like I'm really gonna physically transform and change my life,'" Wilson told the BBC, which recently named her one of their "100 Women of 2021."
"And they were like 'Why? Why would you want to do that?' Because I was earning millions of dollars being, you know, the funny fat girl, and being that person."
The actor declared 2020 her "year of health" almost two years ago and since has been outspoken about her healthy lifestyle changes. She praised walking for losing weight.
Wilson told the BBC her health journey was less about her being confident in how she looked and more about her overall health.
"Even though I was still very confident being bigger, and you know, would walk a red carpet, even though I was probably double the size, sometimes triple the weight, of other actresses, but like, I still felt confident in that," she said. "But I knew deep down inside, some of the emotional eating behaviors I was doing [were] not healthy."
Wilson will next be starring in "Senior Year," out next year, which centers on a woman who "wakes up from a 20-year-coma and returns to the high school where she was once a popular cheerleader," according to a description on IMDb.