Rebel Wilson: Emotional eating, virginity, and popularity
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.7 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Do you turn to food for comfort? Actor Rebel Wilson spent a lifetime using food to numb herself from difficult emotions.
In this chat with Fearne, Rebel shares why she felt safe using her body as a barrier to true intimacy, not having sex until she was 35. Knowing that she was medically obese, Rebel made 2020 her ‘year of health’, but it was working through her trauma that made the most difference, not a specific diet or exercise plan.
Fearne also shares the realities of her bulimia, including the secrecy and isolation that can come with shame.
Rebel talks about feeling like a ‘loser’ at school and making a concerted effort to become popular through speaking to five new people each day, and being a part of theatre and sports teams for connection.
Plus, Rebel explains why it felt so important to speak her truth about what happened on certain sets in her memoir...
Rebel’s book, Rebel Rising, is out now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Happy Place with me Fern Cotton. |
| 0:04.4 | This is the show that knows how intimately connected the happiness of our minds and bodies are. |
| 0:09.6 | Today I'm chatting to Rebel Wilson. |
| 0:12.4 | I feel like... Today I'm chatting to Rebel Wilson. |
| 0:12.5 | I feel like the way it was like a barrier and in a way it protected me because I felt like I didn't |
| 0:20.5 | want intimate relationship. I didn't want anyone to find me attractive and |
| 0:24.3 | I deliberately would make myself more grotesque or whatever and sometimes for comedic purposes |
| 0:32.0 | because I don't know it was like a protection and a barrier in a way and it |
| 0:38.3 | What it was really doing was preventing true intimacy the world fell in love with Rebel when bridesmaids came out and |
| 0:46.1 | she's gone on to start in huge films like How to be Single and the Pitch Perfect |
| 0:51.0 | trilogy. For decades she single-mindedly focused on her career |
| 0:55.9 | choosing to forgo nurturing relationships in favor of honing her craft. |
| 1:01.2 | Rebel Rising, a gorgeous name, is the title of her new memoir |
| 1:06.0 | which follows her all the way from her Ozzy upbringing as the daughter of |
| 1:10.5 | parents who sold pet products to making millions as Hollywood's favorite |
| 1:15.2 | funny girl. But the thing is we see the success story now but her brain was |
| 1:20.6 | constantly asking the same questions as we all struggle with sometimes. |
| 1:24.8 | Am I good enough? |
| 1:26.1 | Will I ever find love? |
| 1:27.8 | Will I ever change and become healthier? |
| 1:30.3 | Rebel and I actually got to hang out twice last week which was so lovely. |
| 1:34.6 | I luckily was asked to host Rebel's book launch at the London Palladium, |
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