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May 6

Melissa McCarthy’s Thoughts on Weight Loss and Body Positivity – Prevention Magazine

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Below, we set the record straight on exactly where McCarthy stands on dieting and weight lossand how, naturally, shes made her point of view funny along the way.

In response to Streisands Ozempic question, McCarthy posted a video with the caption: @Barbarastreisand fan club members only. She said her takeaway from the singers comments were that: Barbara Streisand knows I exist. She reached out to me and she thought I looked good. I win the day.

You may recall that The Little Mermaid Star was honored in Peoples 2023 Beautiful Issue. And while she, of course, had to make a joke about the acknowledgment (Did my mom and my dad have the two main votes?), she shared that, in all seriousness, her glow comes from contentment. Somewhere in my 30s, I was like Im okay with who I am, she told People. And if someone wasnt thrilled with that, thats okay too. At some point, I was like, Theyre not all going to like you. You have to learn that the hard way, but its a good [lesson].

Its not necessarily anyones business what a scale reads when McCarthy steps on it, but she has shared that her weight has fluctuated since she moved to Los Angeles in the 90s. Her lifestyle changed significantly after she joined the improv troupe The Groundlings. I stopped walking and ate shitty food. I was in good shape, then suddenly I gained 25 pounds, she told Rolling Stone in 2017.

Since then, shes been every size in the world, she told Us Weekly in 2013. Parts of my 20s, I was in great shape, but I didnt appreciate it. If I was a six or an eight, I thought, Why arent I a two or a four? Now I feel like I have two great kids and the dreamiest husband on the planet, and everything else is just a work in progress.

After securing her role as Sookie St. James in Gilmore Girls in the early 2000s, McCarthy went on a doctor-advised all-liquid diet, which led her to lose 70 pounds. Id never do that again, she told People in 2011. I felt starved and crazy half the time.

When I go shopping, most of the time Im disappointed, she told Redbook in 2014. Two Oscars ago, I couldnt find anybody to do a dress for me. I asked five or six designersvery high-level ones who make lots of dresses for peopleand they all said no.

After too many of those experiences, McCarthy took matters into her own hands. She has designed clothes for Lane Bryant and launched her own Melissa McCarthy Seven7 line in 2015, which is no longer in production.

Seventy percent of women in the United States are a size 14 or above, and thats technically plus-size, so youre taking your biggest category of people and telling them, Youre not really worthy. I find that very strange, she told Refinery29 in 2015. I just think, if youre going to make womens clothing, make womens clothing.

In 2019, she told WSJ magazine that she was working on a more accessible label, but no news has come of it since.

I do think I worried about weight too soon, when it was only little-kid weight, she told Rolling Stone. I thought I battled weight throughout high school, but I look back at pictures of me as a cheerleader, doing sprints, lifting weights, doing gymnastics, playing tennis, and while I wasnt reed-thin like some girls ... I was a size six the entire time. So what on Earth was I freaking out about?

In 2016, McCarthy shared an image of a mirror with a warning label on Instagram. The label read: Reflections in this mirror may be distorted by societally constructed ideas of beauty.

In her caption, she wrote: We have to stop categorizing and judging women based on their bodies. We are teaching young girls to strive for unattainable perfection instead of feeling healthy and happy in their own skin.

Headlines exploded over McCarthys 50-pound weight loss in 2015 which happened in tandem with her action-packed role in Spy. Ironically, she said the weight left when she stopped obsessing over it. I truly stopped worrying about it, she told Life & Style. I think theres something to kinda loosening up and not being so nervous and rigid about it that, bizarrely, has worked.

Even then, she cautioned the public not to get too... excited about the change. I have [lost weight], but Ill be back again," she told Refinery29 in 2016. Ill be up, Ill be down, probably for the rest of my life. The thing is, if that is the most interesting thing about me, I need to go have a lavender farm in Minnesota and give this up. There has to be something more.

McCarthy has been open about the egregious questions shes received on her physical appearance over the yearsand the double standard that exists when it comes to men in Hollywood and their looks. There are so many more intriguing things about women than their butt or their this or their that. It cant be the first question every time, or a question at all, she told Refinery 29. Its like, Can you imagine them asking some of these guys I work with, How do you keep your butt looking so good? It would be like, What the f*ck are you talking about? Why are you asking about the shape of my butt?

In a 2018 interview with AARP, she shared a similar sentiment. No ones asking a man, how do you keep your legs in shape? Which Ive been asked, she recalled.

In fact, she doesnt want it to define anyone. I just find it dumb and boring. I really do, she told AARP. I think every time we categorize peopleby weight, by race, by genderwe put them in boxes and its not a good thing for the world.

Kayla Blanton is a freelance writer-editor who covers health, nutrition, and lifestyle topics for various publications including Prevention, Everyday Health, SELF, People, and more. Shes always open to conversations about fueling up with flavorful dishes, busting beauty standards, and finding new, gentle ways to care for our bodies. She earned a bachelors degree in journalism from Ohio University with specializations in women, gender, and sexuality studies and public health, and is a born-and-raised midwesterner living in Cincinnati, Ohio with her husband and two spoiled kitties.

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