‘This is Us’ star Chrissy Metz says stepfather would ‘weigh me,’ ‘threaten to lock’ food cupboards as a teen
foxnews.com"This is Us" actress Chrissy Metz is sharing the "abuse" she endured from her stepfather over her weight. Metz said that during her teen years, her stepfather shamed the actress for her weight and would pull out a scale. "He would weigh me in the kitchen or threaten to lock the cupboards," she said on "The Jamie Kern Lima Show." "And I’m like, ‘I don’t think you get it,’" Metz added. "I think there's so much more awareness now around food, food issues, food behavior… we educate people, the fear goes away.
And maybe he was just fearful. I don't really know," she explained. Metz, who grew up in Florida as the middle child of five, claimed that in her childhood she experienced "definitely mental, physical, emotional abuse for sure." She continued, "The emotional stuff… they're like little nicks, little cuts and eventually you bleed out.
It is painful." The actress said she additionally struggled with feeling accepted among her group of friends. "And while you’re going through puberty?… You look like none of your other friends and you can't fit into any of the cute… clothes that they can fit into." Metz went on to discuss how her weight would deeply impact her and how she attempted to overcome the trauma throughout the years. "I think I'm trying to heal those wounds slowly but surely.
And it's not easy...The root of it is, ‘I'm unworthy.’" Metz is best known for her portrayal of Kate Pearson on "This Is Us." Major themes for her character on the show were weight loss, family ties and motherhood.
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