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Rupert Everett feels the consequences of his success.
An actor known for his work with Julia Roberts и Dermot Mulroney в in the film "My Best Friend's Wedding"« 1997, he spoke openly about the current state of his health after years of trying to achieve a "perfect" muscular physique in the 1990s.
«"I destroyed myself. Now I'm almost disabled," Rupert said in an interview. The Guardian June 1st. "I never wanted to do all those things, like the stretching required for lifting weights, because the tendons get more and more tense. So boring. I didn't do any of that. So now, I think my fate will be tied to the musculoskeletal system.".
The 67-year-old actor explained that the pressure to look more like a typical leading man stemmed from his naturally thin frame as a teenager. As Rupert put it, "My bum was like two bones and a hole. And my legs were like a skeleton.".
Looking back, the star of the film «"The Ideal Husband"» admitted that his transformation for the sake of a "rather short-lived" career in Hollywood led him down an unsatisfactory path.
And despite working with legendary actors like Sophia Loren in 1994's Ready-to-Wear and Michelle Pfeiffer and Stanley Tucci in 1999's A Midsummer Night's Dream, he didn't feel fulfilled.
«"Even at work, we were constantly trying to appear attractive," Rupert said. "Which obviously stemmed from a feeling of being unattractive.".
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«"I was obsessed with advancing my career rather than fulfilling my responsibilities," Rupert admitted. "I always felt like I was missing out on some mythical life happening somewhere else. That was my problem.".
And despite working with such legendary actors as Sophia Loren in the film "« Ready To Wear» 1994, as well as Michelle Pfeiffer и Stanley Tucci в «A Midsummer Night's Dream» 1999, he did not feel fulfilled.
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«"Even at work, we were constantly trying to appear attractive," Rupert said. "Which obviously stemmed from a feeling of being unattractive.".
«"My vanity for me wasn't reduced to the question: 'Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most beautiful in the world?'" he added. "Vanity often expresses itself in deep self-doubt, not in a sense of one's own exceptionalism.".
Read on to learn about other celebrities who have opened up about their health struggles.
Brianna "Chickenfree" LaPaglia's Ovarian Cyst
Amy Schumer's Cushing's Syndrome
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While the internet isn't always a kind place, Amy Schumer She's glad he helped her get answers in this case. "The internet really jumped on me after a bunch of press conferences, and I was like, 'Okay, everyone, calm down,'" Amy recalled of her "swollen" face in an episode of the show. «Call Her Daddy» , released in January 2025. "But then the doctors started commenting and saying, 'No, no, we think something's wrong. Your face looks so weird that we think something's wrong.' And I was like, 'Wait, are the doctors trolling me?'" After these doctors said they thought she had Cushing's syndrome, and that it could be caused by spikes in cortisol levels or steroid injections, the creator Life & Beth I thought, 'Wait, I had steroid injections in my scars.' "I had a breast reduction, a C-section, something like that, and that's why I had these steroid injections," Amy said. "I developed Cushing's syndrome, which I wouldn't have known about if the internet hadn't jumped on me so hard." Today, Amy is just glad she's okay. As she wrote in the News Not Noise newsletter in February 2024, "Finding out I have a type of Cushing's that will resolve itself and that I'm healthy was the best news anyone could imagine.".
Casey Fitzgerald's neck injury, sustained from a hockey skate blade.
Hailey Bieber's hemorrhage
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Hailey Bieber experienced the "scariest moment" of her life when, during breakfast with her husband, Justin Bieber In March 2022, she developed stroke-like symptoms. "Justin asked, 'Are you okay?'" the Rhode Island-based cosmetics company owner shared on YouTube a month later, "and I just didn't answer because I wasn't sure. Then he asked me again, and when I tried to answer, I couldn't speak. The right side of my face started drooping. I couldn't get a sentence out." Although Hailey says the drooping stopped and she regained her speech, she went to the hospital to make sure she was okay. "They took some X-rays, and they were able to see that I had a small blood clot in my brain," the model added, "which they classified as a transient ischemic attack (TIA)." Hailey later went to UCLA, where she learned she had a hole in her heart. A patent foramen ovale (PFO). She explained that a clot had traveled to her heart, "burst" through the hole, and reached her brain, causing a transient ischemic attack (TIA). Hayley said the surgery to close the PFO was successful, and she's now feeling great.
Justin Bieber has Ramsay Hunt syndrome.
Jamie Foxx suffers brain hemorrhage and stroke
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Although Jamie Foxx Initially keeping the details of his April 2023 hospitalization a secret, he later opened up about his ordeal. "One day in Atlanta, I had a terrible headache, so I asked my friend, 'Listen, I need an aspirin,'" the Oscar winner said in his 2024 Netflix special. «"What's happened…". «"Before I could get an aspirin, I was out of the house. I don't remember 20 days." Jamie said he was first taken to the doctor, who gave him a cortisone shot and then sent him home. However, his concerned sister Deirdre Dixon took him to the hospital, where they received the answer: he had suffered a brain hemorrhage, which led to a stroke. Twenty days after the surgery, on May 4, the actor, known for his role in the film «Django Unchained» , He woke up in a wheelchair, unable to walk. He then went to Chicago for rehabilitation and therapy. "All I can tell you is that I appreciate every prayer," he said, "because I needed every prayer.".
Medical incident with Tracy Yukich on The Biggest Loser show«
Emilia Clarke's brain aneurysm
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Emilia Clarke starred in battle scenes for «Game of Thrones, but in 2019 she published an essay in The New Yorker magazine Titled "Fight for My Life," the actress wrote. "I had a massive headache at the gym, made it to the bathroom, dropped to my knees, and started vomiting violently." Meanwhile, the pain—shooting, stabbing, crushing—increased. On some level, I knew what was happening: my brain was damaged." She was taken to the hospital for a brain scan. "The diagnosis was swift and ominous: a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), a life-threatening type of stroke caused by bleeding into the space around the brain," the Emmy-nominated actress added. "I had an aneurysm, a ruptured artery." Emilia immediately underwent surgery to close the aneurysm, describing the pain as "unbearable." During her recovery, she said, she developed aphasia, "babbling nonsense." A week later, Emilia added, "the aphasia had resolved," and a month after her admission, she was discharged from the hospital. During a brain scan in 2013, she learned the tumor had "doubled in size" and that she needed another operation. "When they woke me up, I was screaming in pain," she wrote. "The procedure failed. I had a massive hemorrhage, and the doctors made it clear my chances of survival were slim unless they performed another operation. This time, they needed to access my brain the old-fashioned way—through my skull." Fortunately, Emilia shared, she is now "100 percent healthy.".
Corey Broadus has a stroke
Shailene Woodley's fight for health
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In the early twenties life Shailene Woodley It was challenging from a health standpoint. "It got to the point where I started losing my hearing. I couldn't walk for more than five minutes at a time, and I couldn't sleep for hours without lying down. Everything I ate gave me stomach pain," the actress said in a September 2024 episode. podcast SHE MD . "It was a jumble of issues, diagnoses, and different doctors telling me different things." So Shailene, who preferred to keep her illness private, decided to find answers. "I'm holistic and studying herbal medicine," she added. "So I really wanted to work with real doctors, as well as independent healers." "I was just trying to find a sense of comfort in my own body." It was a long journey, spanning 10 years. "A lot of things changed during that decade because of intense physical discomfort," the star of the series noted.« Big Little Lies »"For example, I realized, 'Oh my God, if everything I eat makes my stomach hurt, I suddenly become afraid of food.' And then I descended into the psychological chaos that can come from body dysmorphic disorder, the confusion around identity and feeling safe in your own body, in your own skin, and what that means and what it's supposed to be." After taking care of her physical and mental health, Shailene feels much better. "It was a journey that eventually resolved physically, and I'm very healthy," she shared. "I'm so glad I can say that.".
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