Rebel Wilson Never Abandoned Body Positivity. The Movement Abandoned Her

'Fat Amy' became 'Fit Amy.'

Rebel Wilson is out with a new memoir this month explaining why “Fat Amy” became “Fit Amy.” Put simply, she wanted to have a baby.

At 39, Wilson found herself in front of a fertility doctor who said she had a better chance at freezing her eggs “if you were healthy.”

“That hit me like running into the sharp corner of a kitchen counter in the middle of the night (whilst searching for ice cream),” she wrote. “What is this doctor talking about? I’m not healthy? I am a beacon of body positivity to so many people, Doc. Young people. ‘Beauty at any size.'” But, she adds, “even though body positivity, self-confidence — all that stuff — is so super important, if I’m going to be really honest with myself, I know this doctor is telling the truth.”

Wilson went on the dedicate 2020 to a “Year of Health” citing her unborn child as “motivating factor number one.” Once she lost the weight, Wilson appeared on the cover of People Magazine for a spring issue in 2022 where she talked about the journey from going fat to fit.

“I thought of a future child’s needs that really inspired me to get healthier,” she told the paper. In her memoir, she wrote about feeling “freer” being “the healthiest I’ve ever been in my adult life, both physically and mentally.”

Yet staffers were outraged by the magazine profiling of Wilson’s commitment to fitness. The New York Post reported, “staffers accused new editor Liz Vaccariello of taking a fluffy approach to weight loss and fertility without providing insight from medical experts or any scientific information with the interview.” One source called Wilson’s claims about her own health “fat-shaming” for noting the risks between obesity and fertility.

Wilson addressed the backlash at the end of her book, which I reviewed for The Federalist on Tuesday:

“For the few haters out there trying to troll me, saying things like ‘Ah, now that she’s not big, she’s not relatable anymore,’ or ‘Now she’s not funny anymore,’ or various permutations of ‘She’s changed and how dare she change and we hate her now,'” she wrote, “I guess I say: I can’t hear your voices ’cause they’re muffled under the water while my head remains above it all.”

“I haven’t abandoned my fan base,” Wilson added. “I haven’t been hypocritical. I still think beauty is in every shape and size. I still love the bigger version of me. I’ve changed and I’m now a healthier person. Who am I hurting? No one. I’m saving my own life.”

Wilson ultimately welcomed a baby via surrogate in 2022, opting to forgo carrying the pregnancy herself due to a diagnosis of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).

Links:

New York Post: Ozempic use appears to be changing people’s personalities —experts think they know why

Wall Street Journal: Influencers Love Ozempic—but They Aren’t Telling You About the Risks

New York Times: We Regulate a Tiny Fraction of the 12,000 ‘Forever Chemicals.’ There’s a Better Way.

Daily Caller: Scottish Gender Clinic Stops Prescribing Puberty Blockers For Minors

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