Mike and Molly’s Billy Gardell Details 150-Lb Weight Loss, Talks Body-Shaming at Any Size: ‘Can I Just Walk the Earth Please?’

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Doing it for himself! Mike & Molly alum Billy Gardell got candid about his 150-lb weight loss — and the body-shaming that still comes with it.The Bob Hearts Abishola actor, 53, told Entertainment Tonight in an interview published on Monday, April 17, that he went from 370 pounds — at his heaviest — to now “float[ing] between 205 and 210.”“I think you got to find peace with yourself and at some point, look in the mirror and go, ‘You know, it’s probably time to take care of you.’ And I didn’t get that note early on,” he told the outlet, recalling how he faced his health head-on during the COVID-19 pandemic — including undergoing bariatric surgery. “But I’m a big believer that when you get it, you get it.

It doesn’t matter what it is, as long as you get it.”Gardell is “walking around pretty healthy these days,” he noted, adding that he no longer has Type 2 diabetes and has a significantly lower heart rate since shedding more than 100 lbs in the past decade.In order to view the video, please allow Manage CookiesDespite the vast improvements to his physical and mental health — “Self-care is important, and I think I finally got there,” the My Name Is Earl alum proudly stated — he still faces body-shaming from internet trolls, no matter what his size.“There’s always people online that, you know, when I was heavy, they were like ‘You’re too heavy!’ And now it’s like, ‘Are you sick?’” he revealed. “Can I just walk the earth, please?!”Gardell previously opened up about his weight loss journey in a September 2022 interview with ET, explaining that his struggle with food began when he was a child.“If you grew up like I did, you grow up in a house where it’s like, ‘We had a bad day, let’s eat!