REBEL Wilon has opened up on her “emotional eating” that saw her focus on sweets and desserts to cope with stress.
The Cats star has lost 40lbs in the last year and has now revealed that she began to focus on the “mental side of thing” and questioned why she was “not valuing herself.”
Speaking on The Drew Barrymore Show, Rebel said: “I was going all around the world jetsetting around, and eating a ton of sugar, that was my vice – I love desserts.
“I think what I mainly suffer from is emotional eating and dealing with the stress of becoming famous internationally – and there is a lot of stressful stuff that comes with it – my way of dealing with it was eating donuts.”
Rebel continued: “I was working on the mental side of things; why am I doing that, not valuing myself and having better self worth? And then also on the nutritional side my diet was mainly all carbs… so for my body type so I needed a lot more protein.”
The actress, who also found love this last year with 26-year-old Jacob Busch, added: “So I lost, I think 40lbs this year, and I want to lose a few more.”
But Rebel also told the audience that she “loves” her curves and “will never go too skinny.”
“But I feel so much healthier, and I don’t know if its when you turn 40 but I feel I have come into my own now.
“Not just health but my career… so I feel everything seems to be coming together.”
In January, Rebel announced this would be her “Year of Health” and she overhauled her lifestyle entirely with surfing and refusing to use the word “diet.”
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She told how her impending 40th birthday, as well as suffering mental health issues over Hollywood’s attitude to weight, had encouraged her decision to overhaul her lifestyle.
She exclusively told The Sun: “Weirdly this year was always going to be the year of health. I’ve been naming my years now, and, that’s kind of having these resolutions but for the whole year.”
She said: “It’s not like I want to lose weight and get to a certain number. It’s more than that.
“It’s about dealing mentally with why I was overeating and I had a job where I was paid a lot of money to be bigger at times, which can kind of mess with your head a bit.”