Although she cannot stop flaunting her bikini body, Kathy Griffin's past has been weathered by low self-esteem, leading her to some extreme measures to achieve body bliss.
"What I can't figure out is why I wasted time worrying about my looks. I am a comedian. I'm not on the runway in Milan," says Kathy. "Believe it or not, people don't come to see me really thinking I'm going to look like Jennifer Aniston."
Yet at 26, she went under the knife for a nose job!
"I was told repeatedly, 'You would be pretty if it weren't for that nose. You'd work more if it weren't for that nose. Hey have you considered getting a nose job?’ You would think I had a nose the size of Texas," said the actress. "I was young and impressionable and I was told that enough that I started to believe it, so I got a nose job."
And with all the outside scrutiny, she never let up on herself as she became obsessed with losing weight. Kathy would take several step aerobics classes in a row, starve herself all day and binge at night. It even got as desperate as diet pills!
"I am very proud of my two weeks on speed," she half-jokes. "It was full-on illegal speed. I took it to lose weight, which is not very smart. I just felt three times as hungry afterward."
Although once she booked Suddenly Susan, Griffin felt pressure to slim down. "I lost 15 lbs. friggin fast in season 1," she divulges. "But being on television … I was never thin enough. [Being on TV] told me that clothes didn't come in anything larger than a four. That got to me."
Those feelings eventually led to liposuction, yet complications from the procedure brought her close to death.
Although Kathy shows embarrassing pictures post-surgery in her new book, because she wants "women to know that this is what lipo looks like. Like, are you sure you don't want to just work out a little more?"
Currently in the best shape of her life with 115 lbs on her 5'3 frame, it is still not easy!
"I struggle with it every day," she says. "I just came from a very healthy lunch but the whole time I was having the healthy lunch I wished I was having cupcakes. It's not a simple thing. I have to watch what I eat and I have to work out quite a bit."
And, how did she finally get her bikini body?
"The funny thing is the lipo, which was more than 10 years ago, has nothing to do with it," says the comedian. "I actually got into fairly good shape from yawn: diet and exercise."
That's the way to do it!
Glad you got it together, bb!
[Image via Getty Images.]
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