'I'm 165 pounds and I love my body': Wendy Williams opens up about the drug use and plastic surgery that stemmed from being 'fat shamed' as a child
Wendy Williams was put on her first diet in the first grade by her mother.
From then on the TV talk show host was 'fat shamed' by her entire family, leading to a cocaine addiction in the eighties and multiple surgeries in the nineties, including liposuction and a tummy tuck.
But today the 50-year-old beauty is fine with her looks, she told People. 'I'm 5ft 11 in, 165 pounds and I love my body at this point in my life,' the star admitted.
The New Jersey resident said she first realized she was bigger than most kids when her family brought up her size.
'In the seventies I guess that is what they called "love,"' she joked.
'When I look back I was a little fluffy, but I wasn't fat,' she added.
The former radio star said a focus on her body led to a taste for cocaine when she was still an undergrad.
'I didn't consider it a problem,' she offered, 'mainly because I had no money to fuel the habit.'
When she landed a big radio show on New York City's WRKS in 1989, she was handed a nice salary that could help her buy as much as she wanted.
'I was making $60,000 a year, and at $35 a gram, cocaine was cheap,' she said.
It wasn't until she met her future husband Kevin Hunter that she slowed down. 'I decided to step back and take an assessment of my life,' she said.
She's now 15 years clean and enjoying life with her 13-year-old son Kevin Jr, as well as her husband, in New Jersey.
But before having her first child, two miscarriages caused her to not take care of herself.
'I gained 103 pounds,' she said.
After giving birth to her son, she had a 'mommy makeover' that included a tummy tuck. 'It was a kickoff to a new way of life.'
The popular daytime fixture - her Wendy Williams Show draws two million viewers - is careful with her health these days because she has both a Thyroid disorder and Graves' disease.
'That's why I wear wigs,' she said.
But Wendy is grateful.
'I've corrected just about everything that bothered the hell out of me in my twenties, thirties and forties,' the outspoken star said.
'I have to say, this is not how I thought things would turn out. I'm sober, I've got my Kevins, my parents are still around to see my success.'
The personality then added, 'I knew life would turn out OK, but I didn't think it'd turn out great.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...d-recover-fat-shamed-child.html#ixzz39dfjnObP
Wendy Williams was put on her first diet in the first grade by her mother.
From then on the TV talk show host was 'fat shamed' by her entire family, leading to a cocaine addiction in the eighties and multiple surgeries in the nineties, including liposuction and a tummy tuck.
But today the 50-year-old beauty is fine with her looks, she told People. 'I'm 5ft 11 in, 165 pounds and I love my body at this point in my life,' the star admitted.
The New Jersey resident said she first realized she was bigger than most kids when her family brought up her size.
'In the seventies I guess that is what they called "love,"' she joked.
'When I look back I was a little fluffy, but I wasn't fat,' she added.
The former radio star said a focus on her body led to a taste for cocaine when she was still an undergrad.
'I didn't consider it a problem,' she offered, 'mainly because I had no money to fuel the habit.'
When she landed a big radio show on New York City's WRKS in 1989, she was handed a nice salary that could help her buy as much as she wanted.
'I was making $60,000 a year, and at $35 a gram, cocaine was cheap,' she said.
It wasn't until she met her future husband Kevin Hunter that she slowed down. 'I decided to step back and take an assessment of my life,' she said.
She's now 15 years clean and enjoying life with her 13-year-old son Kevin Jr, as well as her husband, in New Jersey.
But before having her first child, two miscarriages caused her to not take care of herself.
'I gained 103 pounds,' she said.
After giving birth to her son, she had a 'mommy makeover' that included a tummy tuck. 'It was a kickoff to a new way of life.'
The popular daytime fixture - her Wendy Williams Show draws two million viewers - is careful with her health these days because she has both a Thyroid disorder and Graves' disease.
'That's why I wear wigs,' she said.
But Wendy is grateful.
'I've corrected just about everything that bothered the hell out of me in my twenties, thirties and forties,' the outspoken star said.
'I have to say, this is not how I thought things would turn out. I'm sober, I've got my Kevins, my parents are still around to see my success.'
The personality then added, 'I knew life would turn out OK, but I didn't think it'd turn out great.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...d-recover-fat-shamed-child.html#ixzz39dfjnObP
