The real reason Rebel Wilson lost 80lbs during her ‘year of health’

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actually spent her pandemic year getting fit.The “Senior Year” star recently shared how an inevitable break from the spotlight in 2020 gave her the chance to get healthy, and lose over 80 pounds.During her self-proclaimed “year of health,” the Australian funny woman, 42, was inspired to shed some weight after she visited a fertility doctor some years ago, intent on freezing her eggs.“He looked me up and down and said, ‘You’d do much better if you were healthier’,” the actress recently told People.Her wish to become a mother one day encouraged her to put health first.

Wilson also has polycystic ovarian syndrome, a disease that can greatly impact fertility, and lead to weight gain.“I was taken aback.

I thought, ‘Oh God, this guy’s so rude.’ He was right. I was carrying around a lot of excess weight. It’s almost like I didn’t think of my own needs. [When] I thought of a future child’s needs, that really inspired me to get healthier,” she explained to the magazine.She set out on her wellness journey in January 2020. “It wasn’t a goal to get to a certain weight,” she explained. “It was just being the healthiest version of myself.”Wilson touched upon her struggle with “emotional eating” and how it led her to reevaluate her priorities.

She finally understood that her physical transformation was about more than the number on the scale. “It was about dealing with the emotional issues that caused me to emotionally eat, and that’s a process,” she pointed out. “You cry a lot, analyze things.