14 DAY TRIAL // Kathy Griffin, the self-titled “D-List” who just recently managed to surprise all her detractors by unveiling an almost perfect swimsuit body, admits that she wasn’t always this confident with her looks as she is now at 48. As a matter of fact, the star explains in her upcoming book, as cited by People magazine, there was a time when she tried everything to fit Hollywood’s standards, from diet pills, to starving herself, drugs and plastic surgery.
Clearly, not a record to be proud of, but Griffin is, again, shamelessly exposing the Hollywood body for what it is by telling women all over the world they should never try to get their idol’s enviable silhouette by any other means than eating right and working out. Similarly, the comedienne explains, women should never let someone else tell them how they should look: beauty, just like confidence, has to come from within and we should never alter ourselves with plastic surgery, unless we know for a fact this is what we want.
In this sense, Griffin offers her own example, of how she got a nose job at 26 just because people told her she should. Fortunately, she knows now that no one really expects her to look in a certain way, which is how she came to embrace her looks and to love herself as she is. “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. Believe it or not, people don’t come to see me really thinking I’m going to look like Jennifer Aniston.” Kathy Griffin says.
Griffin’s memoir, “Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin,” hits stores this month and, as fans will see, it shows that she didn’t always have this healthy approach to life. There were times when she grew desperate and tried everything from popping diet pills to drugs and plastic surgery to lose weight. She still has the scars from liposuction and she wants the entire world to see them, which is why she includes photos of them in the book. Only this way will women around the world be able to see what surgery really means and why they should never opt for this “quick fix.”
“Staying in shape is a struggle. I struggle with it every day. 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. The funny thing is the lipo, which was more than 10 years ago, has nothing to do with it. I actually got into fairly good shape from yawn: diet and exercise.” Griffin further tells People.