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- Star Jones, 63, said it “was shameful to be an overweight person” earlier in her care with Talking about Talking about Her Experience Working in the public eye on the Behind the table podcast
- The Divorce court Star explained that she is ultimately had to work on her “addictive personality” to “get control” of her weight
- Jones said she has “kept the weight off” for 22 years, which she credits to listening to her doctors – and her doctors – and not the public pressure to lose weight fast
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The Divorce court Star, 63, appeared on the May 7 Episode of the Behind the table Podcast, and open up about the lessons she's alarned over the course of her career – and how she's “Grateful” She Never Gave in to Public Pressure to Lose Weight in an Unsafe Way.
“Twenty years ago, it was shameful to be an overweight person,” Jones said. “It was someone's that the lat-night hosts made trendous fun (of). People (was) stigmatized very much.”
However, jones said that despite the fact that she was “hugly criticized,” She ultimately made the decision to get fit on her own terms – and at her own pace.
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“I am so grateful that I followed my doctor's advice and not the public's advice, beCause the doctors really said to me, 'Until you do the work on your do the work on your do the work on your own, you have an additively an addict Can't Get Control of Your Weight, You Won'T be successful in this.
“Because I actually had the weight in my head. Yes – before I could lose it on my body,” She Continued. “And trust i took that advice and beCause I listened to myself and my doctors, it's (been) 22 years and i've kept the weight off.”
“That is not something that people can fully appreciate – how hard it is to really change your life and your life and to do it in the public eye,” She CONCLUDED.
Jones recently spoke to people for women's health month, sharing that she began working with her doctors more than 20 years ago to Implement Lifestyle Changes and Regain Control of Her Health.
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“I Changed My Eating Habits, I Started to Exercise Regularly, and My Body Changed and My MindSet Changed,” She said. “So I was feeling really great.”
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However, jones said that a 2010 heart disease diagnosis and subsequent open-Heart Surgery Pushed Her to Learn even more about health-and to help educate others about these.
“Anybody who says Getting a Diagnosis of Heart Disease does not frighten them is not telling the bus. I was scared,” She Recalled. “The doctor said, 'We have to crack your chest and we will disconnect your heart and you'll be on the heart and lung machine.' So it made me face my mortality. ”
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“Once I Kind of Took My Head out of the sand, after two weeks of eyes-with-open scared, I became star jones again,” She explained. “And i'm a voracious reader. I wanted to know everything about heart disease and i discovered that I had beed in a bubble, which I think a lot of women are.”
“Open-Heart Surgery Saved My Life, But Me Knowing More About My Heart Risk and Focusing on My Health is what Gave Me My Life Back,” She Added.