Hayden Panettiere says she found herself 'unrecognizable' after her body reacted to the stress of losing her younger brother Jansen in 2023 in her exclusive PEOPLE cover interview.
The actress says she found herself "unrecognizable" after her body reacted to the stress of losing her younger brother Jansen in 2023“I just ballooned out,” Panettiere, 35, says of her rapid 40-pound. weight gain. "It didn't matter what I did, what I ate. I know stress and cortisol running through your body can do that. Now I think my body was protecting itself, shielding itself from the world.
“I had to see horrific paparazzi pictures of myself coming out of Jansen’s funeral, which happened in a very private place, and it was shocking,” she says. “I didn't recognize myself. My agoraphobia came out, which is something I’ve struggled with in the past.” “No woman should have to be on camera unless they want to be three months after they give birth,” she says. “I’d just be stuffing every ounce of flub into Spanx, and it added to my depression and what I thought of myself. They say you should speak to yourself the way you would speak to your friends, but I was very, very guilty of speaking to myself horribly.”“We'd take these long, beautiful walks where we could vent, and it would be this therapy session,” Panettiere says. “She empowered me.
As her insecurities faded, so did her agoraphobia. “There’s nothing like looking in the mirror and feeling like you look good enough to walk out the door,” she says.
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