Chrissy Metz is an Emmy and Golden Globe nominated actor, a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a mega talented singer who’s sung on stages ranging from The Grand Old Opry to Disneyworld to singing while acting as the role of Kate Pierson for 6 years on the hit NBC Show “This is Us” and today she’ll leave you inspired to believe that your dreams truly are possible! Even if it’s taking longer than you thought it would, and even if you have doubts, obstacles and naysayers in your way!
Chrissy Metz was recently interviewed after the release of her book and among other things shared how her stepfather would "weigh her" and then "threaten to lock" the food cupboards.
Her character on "This Is Us"--Kate Pearson--struggled with weight and food issues, has detailed the "physical and emotional abuse" she faced at the hands of her stepparent over her size.
Chrissy recalled how her stepfather “would weigh me in the kitchen or threaten to lock the cupboards, and I'm like, ‘I don't think you get it.'"
Appearing on The Jamie Kern Lima Show podcast, she continued: “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.
“But yeah, I mean, [it was] definitely mental, physical, emotional abuse for sure.”
She also shared how people started treating her differently once she got famous, including no longer being bothered about sitting next to her on a flight.
She said: “Before the show, I could go on an airplane and someone could not want to sit next to me if they were too squished or they were going to be like, ’Oh, gosh, here comes a big girl that I have to sit next to.’
“But because now I'm on a TV show, they don't care. Or they're like, ‘Oh, well, you're famous.’
“It was always like, they're going to be bothered that I'm sitting next to them, or they wouldn't look at me twice or they would not engage. And then when I became, let's put it in air quotes, famous, then they want to have a conversation or they were more apt to want to sit next to me.”