Chrissy Metz has been open about her journey with weight loss over the years. The actor, 44, managed to relate to a wide audience as her "This Is Us" character, Kate Pearson, went through her own weight-loss challenges over the course of six seasons. After the show wrapped in 2022, Metz told about the impact Kate seemed to have on the show's massive viewership.
“What I will miss most about Kate is that I think so many people, not even just women, relate to her and her walking imperfectly through her trials and tribulations and all the shame and guilt that she’s carried for so long,” Metz said, adding that “so many women have shared their experiences” with her. Like the show's fans, Metz revealed that she was also moved by her character, sharing the ways the role shaped the way she approached weight loss and body image. She's gone on to candidly share details about weight fluctuations she's dealt with since she was a child and how she views health.
In a 2017 interview with , Metz said that she's been "chubby all my life." "I was born chubby and as I got older at different times in my life I was thinner or more active or playing sports but I was definitely always a chubbier kid," she said at the time. Recalling the impact her weight had on relationships growing up, Metz explained that her friends "could eat whatever they wanted to but I knew that as a kid if I ate certain things I would totally gain weight," adding that she "had to be really cognizant of what I ate.
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