Here’s everything the My Big Fat Fabulous Life star has said about her weight and approach to health and fitness.
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- My Big Fat Fabulous Life star Whitney Way Thore shared on Instagram that she lost 100 pounds.
- She also explained that she did not have “medical intervention to lose weight.”
- The body positivity advocate has spoken publicly about her weight in the past.
Whitney Way Thore is back on TV, starring in her 12th season of My Big Fat Fabulous Life. This season shows Whitney as she navigates being newly single and getting older. But Whitney also appears noticeably slimmed down, which is raising a lot of questions about weight loss.
That comes just a few months after Whitney revealed that she recently lost 100 pounds. Whitney made the announcement on Instagram in a post celebrating her dad’s birthday, but she also made it clear that she’s uncomfortable with people making comments about her body. Here’s what Whitney has said about her weight loss journey over the years:
How did Whitney Way Thore lose weight?
Unfortunately, a lot of this was due to grief. Whitney’s mom Barbara “Babs” Thore died in December 2022 after being diagnosed with cerebral amyloid angiopathy, a progressive condition that can cause brain bleeding, strokes, and dementia, per Deadline.
“I hate addressing this, but no, I have not had medical intervention to lose weight,” Whitney wrote in the caption of a recent Instagram post. “In 2015 (season 1), I weighed 385 pounds. In 2018, I lost 50 pounds. When my mom got sick and eventually died, I lost 50 more. I weigh 285 pounds and I have been this weight for almost a year now.”
Has Whitney had weight loss surgery? Is she on Ozempic?
The 40-year-old reality TV personality set the record straight in a September 2023 interview with ET. “I think it’s obvious that I have lost some weight and that is true,” she said. “And people say, like, ‘Is it surgery?’ and I’m like, ‘No, it’s grief, but thanks.'”
“I see a lot of chatter online and people have asked me, ‘Have you had weight loss surgery?’ or something like that. No I haven’t,” Whitney continued. “On the show, I’ll talk about my weight more, but in my personal life, I don’t really find it necessary to talk about how much I weigh. It’s just not something that I care to focus on and talk about.”
In July, Whitney told Us Weekly that her weight loss wasn’t due to medication like Ozempic, although she’s not ruling out trying the drug in the future. “I’m not saying that I wouldn’t necessarily, I don’t know,” she said. “It’s not something that I’ve really thought about or have felt the medical need for, but it’s not something that I would say, ‘I would never do.’”
Whitney said that she gets asked a lot if she’s taken weight-loss medications. “With the Ozempic craze and everything like that, I got questioned a lot,” she said. “It’s funny, simultaneously, people are insisting I must have had weight-loss surgery. And then, other people are saying, ‘She hasn’t lost a pound.’”
By the way, Whitney has no judgement about taking Ozempic or similar medications. “I think people have the right to do whatever they want to do with their own bodies,” she said. “And as a fat person who’s been fat my entire adult life, I would never shame or criticize another fat person for choosing to do something that makes their life easier.”
She weighs herself to manage PCOS symptoms.
Whitney also revealed that she weighs herself to keep tabs on her polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a condition that’s linked to weight gain, infertility, and missed periods.
“I’ve just now started getting a cycle,” she told Us Weekly. “[I] just recently went up 10 pounds, and then I got my period the next day, and it was all gone the next day. I kind of track based on that. … It’s just a habit, really, [and] it’s not for any reason. It doesn’t make me feel any kind of way.”
She doesn’t like commenting on her body.
In Whitney’s IG post, she shared that she’s “been this weight for almost a year now” and this is the second time she’s lost 100 pounds in her life. But she quickly acknowledged that she’s not one to keep tabs on her weight.
“I’m still very fat. Thank you for the compliments, but I really don’t like obsessing over my body and I don’t like it when others do it either 💜,” she said.
Whitney loves to work out—on her terms.
Whitney is co-founder of No BS Active, a fitness and lifestyle app designed for people of all sizes. The program features workouts geared toward meeting the needs of both beginners and experienced athletes because No BS Active “makes workouts work for you by providing multiple modifications with clear instructions for all levels,” according to the app’s description.
Whitney is also super active and regularly posts photos and videos of herself exercising with the No BS Active program.
“I’m Whitney. 39, never married, no kids. Likes working out and drinking Coke. I’m so ~*~multifaceted~*~ 💁🏻♀️,” she joked in one post.
In another, she totally owned the dance floor:
And then there was this sweet video of Whitney and her dad working out in the pool:
Go Whitney, go!
