‘SNL’ Star Aidy Bryant On Why She Stopped Trying To Lose Weight

Aidy Bryant has opened up about her big decision to finally stop trying to lose weight and how she learned to accept herself and her body. She also opened up about a time when she felt humiliated at a photoshoot with her “Saturday Night Live” co-stars.

Just recently, Bryant did an interview with The Cut and tackled the issues she faced because of her weight. The 30-year-old comedian revealed that she actually made several attempts to shed some pounds. In fact, she practically spent most of her teenage years dieting in hopes of becoming skinny.

Bryant is very accepting of her weight at present, and she says this is all thanks to an epiphany in her life: the moment she realized that she should stop focusing on losing weight and instead direct her focus to just accepting herself. “I was spending so much energy on something that really, no matter what I did, wasn’t changing. And I truly got to a breaking point. I was like, ‘How much longer can I do this? Can I do this for the rest of my life?’” she said.

The comedian shared that it was that moment when she redirected her focus to liking herself that paved the way to the positive changes in her life. “I finally was like, ‘What if I put all of that energy into just trying to like myself and focus on the things I actually want to do as opposed to this thing that’s like a made-up concept?’ And I’m not kidding, my entire life changed after I did that,” she explained.

She added that the optimistic view she took helped her establish her Hollywood career. She was hired by Second City and then joined “SNL” in 2012, according to Entertainment Tonight.

Despite the positive changes in her life, Bryant confessed that insecurity still kicks in every now and then. One instance was when she did a photoshoot with her “SNL” castmates Kate McKinnon and Cecily Strong. She apparently had to wear her own clothes at the time because the stylists didn’t have anything that would fit her.

“It was just humiliating. The other girls had racks of clothes to choose from and were wearing these thousand-dollar dresses, and I had two sacks or like one matronly mother-of-the-bride dress,” she said, before noting that she felt she was treated differently because she has a different body type.

Nonetheless, there was something good that came out of the humiliating incident. Bryant now collaborates with designers for her custom clothes, and she is even working on a clothing line that would cater to women who are size 12 through 24, as per People. For Bryant, it’s her “moral obligation” to give a solution to the problem of most curvy girls out there.