September 2nd, 2009
Kathy Griffin is getting ready to share some of her struggles in her upcoming memoir, ‘Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin.’
“What I can’t figure out is why I wasted my time worrying about my looks. I am a comedian. I’m not on the runway in Milan,” says Griffin… “Believe it or not, people don’t come to see me really thinking I’m going to look like Jennifer Aniston.”
However, when Kathy first arrived in Hollywood in her 20’s, she experienced a lot of pressure to be thin. She felt so much pressure to be what everyone wanted, she got a nose job at age 26.
“I was told repeatedly, ‘You would be pretty if it weren’t for that nose. You’d work more if it weren’t for that nose. Hey have you considered getting a nose job?’ You would think I had a nose the size of Texas. I was young and impressionable and I was told that enough that I started to believe it, so I got a nose job.”
Kathy also became obsessed about losing weight. She would take several step aerobics classes in a row, starve herself all day and binge at night. She even took diet pills!
“I am very proud of my two weeks on speed,” she jokes. “It was full-on illegal speed. I took it to lose weight, which is not very smart.” The result: “I just felt three times as hungry afterward,” she says.
After she got her break on Suddenly Susan, Griffin felt pressured to slim down. She lost 15lbs. extremely fast; however, she never felt thin enough. Those feelings eventually led to liposuction. Her experience with liposuction was nearly fatal!
“Opening up about the experience, and showing never before scene post-surgical pictures in her book, “is embarrassing,” Griffin says. Still, she says, “I want women to know that this is what lipo looks like. Like, are you sure you don’t want to just work out a little more?”
Kathy is currently in the best shape of her life! She is 115 pounds (and she is 5′3” tall).
“staying in shape is a struggle. I struggle with it every day. I just came from a very healthy lunch but the whole time I was having the healthy lunch I wished I was having cupcakes,” she says. “It’s not a simple thing. I have to watch what I eat and I have to work out quite a bit.”
As for getting into bikini-ready shape, “The funny thing is the lipo, which was more than 10 years ago, has nothing to do with it,” says Griffin. “I actually got into fairly good shape from yawn: diet and exercise.”
I LOVE Kathy Griffin! She is so open and honest about all of her struggles that regular women have to deal with. I think Kathy looks great. Hell, I thought she looked great years ago!
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