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Taylor Lautner 'regrets' not stopping Kanye West from crashing ex Taylor Swift's MTV VMAs speech
Taylor Lautner opened up about battling body dysmorphia Wednesday while on his podcast The Squeeze, which he hosts with his wife Taylor Dome.The 30-year-old actor, who exchanged vows with Dome, 25, this past November, said that in the past, he dealt with issues in which he was too mentally invested in what he looked like.'You need to get to a place where you realize that how your body and your body looks doesn't say anything about you as a person, because there's a flip side too,' the Grand Rapids, Michigan native said.Lautner, who played Jacob Black in the Twilight films, said that mental health should always take precedence over one's appearance.'Because your body can be unbelievable, you can be ripped, shredded, whatever, you can lose weight, you can put on muscle, and if you're not healthy mentally, then that's all for nothing, because that can work against you,' he said. The latest: Taylor Lautner opened up about battling body dysmorphia Wednesday while on his podcast The Squeeze, which he hosts with his wife Taylor DomeLautner continued: 'There's two totally different sides to it, and I think that was the thing I needed to learn, because for so long, I told myself, if I get my body back to where I want it to be, then I'm going to be happy again.'Lautner said that 'value does not come in what you look like when you look at yourself in the mirror,' adding that he once bought into the erroneous way of thinking.He said he mistakenly thought that when he got into the shape he wanted so, something was gonna click and he would be 'super happy.'On the podcast, Lautner said one moment he regretted in his career came during the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards when Kanye West infamously interrupted Taylor Swift - who he was
