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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Rebel Wilson: I Experimented With Ozempic! Childhood Trauma Was The Reason I Couldn't Lose Weight & ALL The Truth About Sacha Baron Cohen!

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

She’s stolen every scene she’s ever been in, but her hardest role might be being herself Rebel Wilson is an Australian actress and producer best known for her roles in films such as, ‘Bridesmaids’, ‘Pitch Perfect’ and ‘Jojo Rabbit’. In this conversation Rebel and Steven discuss topics such as, her battles with self-esteem and her weight, her malaria vision to be an actress, being a virgin at 35, and the truth about Sacha Baron Cohen. You purchase Rebel’s memoir, ‘Rebel Rising’, here: https://amzn.to/4b2hMeh Follow Rebel: Instagram - https://bit.ly/3JIZ1R6 TikTok - https://bit.ly/4dzvl6O Watch the episodes on Youtube - https://g2ul0.app.link/3kxINCANKsb My new book! 'The 33 Laws Of Business & Life' is out now - https://smarturl.it/DOACbook Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Sponsors: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/doac Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

It was the worst professional experience of my career and this was before the me-two movement. I felt

0:06.0

humiliated and degraded. What can you say about that experience?

0:11.5

Rebel! An award-winning Hollywood. Rebel Lazy cow, no one I'll ever love you and I had issues with food because I had low

0:25.2

self-worth and that's why I would trash my body. I felt my life wasn't going to be anything.

0:29.6

But then I found motivational tapes that said,

0:33.0

The brave put down their fears and go forward.

0:36.0

And so I decided to go out into the world and make a name for myself.

0:39.0

And then I noticed on stage that people like laughing at bigger people I thought I could use this to my advantage I gained all this weight my body was like at a 102 kilos and then I came to America and now I'm making millions of dollars from playing the fat funny girl.

0:54.0

I'm living this amazing life but you achieve it and then it's not enough and

0:58.9

and it's still a virgin never dated properly. In this biological clock, you could hear it going,

1:03.8

t t t t t t t t t went to the fertility doctor

1:07.3

and the doctor looks me up and down and goes, you're not healthy

1:10.3

and it like it really sunk in, I've to fix this but as soon as I started telling people in my team

1:16.3

they're like oh no no no no why would you want to lose weight because then you lose your

1:19.6

multi-million dollar career you just gonna throw it away was that your hardest moment no the

1:25.4

darkest point in my life was when I was 13 and

1:30.3

congratulations Dar over see your gang We've made some progress. 63% of you that listen to this

1:36.0

podcast regularly don't subscribe, which is down from 69%. Our goal is 50%. So if you've ever liked any of the videos we've posted, if you like this channel, can you do me a quick favor and hit the subscribe button? It helps this channel more than you know and the bigger the channel gets as you've seen the bigger the guests get.

1:55.0

Thank you and enjoy this episode.

1:57.0

Rebel. I think to understand somebody you have to understand their earliest context.

2:08.0

And as I read through your book Rebel Rising, which is out now,

2:11.1

I was surprised in many ways but also the person that I'd seen on a screen

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