Shonda Rhimes Claims Weight Loss Was Not For Her To ‘Become Beautiful Like In Movies’

Renowned TV show creator Shonda Rhimes has candidly opened up about her life-changing 150-pound weight loss and the real reason behind it.

On Wednesday, Rhimes released her latest newsletter, in which she poured out her thoughts on her weight loss journey. In it, the 47-year-old “Scandal” and “Grey’s Anatomy” creator stated that the primary reason why she did what she had to do to lose weight has to do with health reasons.

“I did not do it because I thought I would become beautiful like in the movies. I did it because I could not walk up a short flight up stairs without stopping to take a break and wiping sweat from my brow,” she was quoted as saying by Us Weekly.

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Rhimes then confessed that she loathed the idea of weight loss and hated the process needed to realize it. “Losing weight is not a topic I like discussing. Why? Because there is nothing fun or interesting or great about it. I hated losing weight,” she wrote. “I hated every single second of it. And I hate every single second of maintaining my weight, too.”

Nevertheless, the showrunner admitted that so many things changed after her weight loss. She said that men started speaking to her after she dropped some weight. “They spoke to me. Like stood still and had long conversations with me about things,” she said.

She also revealed how the females would now gush about her appearance. “Women I barely knew gushed. And I mean GUSHED. Like I was holding-a-new-baby-gushed. Only there was no new baby. It was just me. In a dress. With makeup on and my hair all did, yes,” she explained.

Rhimes confessed that she feels perplexed when these things happen to her. Moreover, she finds it very disconcerting how people now comfortably speak to her about her body and nonchalantly tell her that they are proud of what she’s done and how she looks better now than before.

The award-winning producer disclosed that she’s appalled by the way people generally treat her differently since shedding some pounds. “After I lost weight, I discovered that people found me valuable. Worthy of a conversation. A person one could look at. A person one could compliment. A person one could admire,” she pointed out. “What the hell did they see me as before?”

In the end, Rhimes concluded her newsletter by saying that “being thinner doesn’t make you a different person. It just makes you thinner.”

Back in November 2016, Rhimes revealed that she worked on her weight not because of narcissistic desires, but because she noticed how her weight was affecting her life. She even shared at the time that her realization came when she flew to New York in a first class seat, but had trouble securing herself to the chair because the seat belt wouldn’t close, as previously reported by E! News.