Her account complicates the familiar formula of presenting weight loss as a straightforward contest between discipline and temptation. Wilson had already spent much of her life dieting and exercising, she said, but came to believe that lasting change also required examining why she was engaging in unhealthy behaviour.
That distinction matters because the visible result—a dramatic change in body weight—can obscure the less photogenic work behind it. Meal plans and workouts fit neatly into a list. Emotional patterns generally decline to be so cooperative.
Her ‘Year of Health’ led to an almost 80-pound loss
Wilson made health a public priority during her “Year of Health”, documenting lifestyle changes as she worked towards her target weight. She eventually said she had reached 165 pounds after losing almost 80 pounds.
The actor appeared pleased with the changes she had made, but her more recent comments suggest she does not regard the number on the scale as the complete story.
Although diet and regular exercise formed part of her broader effort, Wilson has emphasised that she had followed diets and maintained exercise habits before. In her telling, the decisive shift came from addressing the emotional component rather than discovering a previously unknown workout or forbidden food.
Wilson also disclosed using Ozempic
In March, Wilson said she had used Ozempic to help maintain her weight. The prescription medicine is approved for treating type 2 diabetes and is also widely used off-label for weight loss.
Her disclosure adds another layer to a transformation often described primarily through food and fitness. Wilson did not present the medication as the sole explanation for her weight loss, and her comments to Us Weekly explicitly rejected the idea that any single intervention offered an effortless solution.
The distinction between losing weight and maintaining it is also important. Wilson described Ozempic as something she used for weight maintenance after the major loss, rather than as the beginning and end of her health journey.
‘Rebel Rising’ allowed her to tell the less polished story
Wilson explored her experiences more openly in her memoir, Rebel Rising, released on April 2. Three months after its publication, she said writing about her life had been cathartic.
“The fact that it became a New York Times bestseller [and] the audiobook has been going insane—it’s done really, really well,” she told Us Weekly.
The book’s reception appears to have encouraged Wilson to speak with fewer filters about her health, career and personal experiences.
“I am just so proud of my life and all the things that I’ve gone through,” she said. “I’m just at a point now where I can be really open. It’s kind of cathartic in a way to just put it all out there. And then now, I move on with the next chapters.”
Her focus has moved beyond the before-and-after picture
Wilson’s current account is less a new weight-loss prescription than a correction to the simplified story surrounding her transformation. Exercise and dietary changes mattered, and medication later played a role in maintenance, but she says neither explains the journey without its emotional context.
That leaves her “Year of Health” looking less like a finished makeover and more like the start of a longer reckoning. Wilson reached her target weight years ago; the chapter she is discussing now concerns what had been driving her behaviour in the first place.
