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Lisa Ann Walter Says Sheryl Lee Ralph Helped With Body Image Issues
The educators astatine Abbott Elementary adjacent negociate to teach themselves lessons sometimes.
After saying that an ex-boyfriend attempted to shame her "for being fat" during her clip connected the NBC sitcom Emeril successful 2001, Lisa Ann Walter revealed her conflict with assemblage representation really extended overmuch further.
"I privation it was conscionable once," Lisa exclusively told E! astatine the 2023 GLAAD Media Awards successful Los Angeles March 30. "I was abdominous shamed my full beingness due to the fact that I was the abdominous kid. Back erstwhile I was increasing up, determination weren't arsenic galore dense kids."
However, the histrion revealed that her Abbott Elementary co-star Sheryl Lee Ralph has been liable for helping her crook a corner.
"With Sheryl successful my receptor saying, ‘I won't perceive that anymore, I won't perceive you speech that trash astir yourself anymore,'" Lisa said she realized that "finally, astatine this constituent successful my life, I'm not trying to beryllium thing different than what I am. And I emotion it."
Lisa shared that during hard times during her childhood, she would header with food.
"I happened to beryllium a latchkey kid with the archetypal divorced parents successful school," The Parent Trap prima said. "I recovered my comfortableness successful breadstuff and food with sweetener connected it. That's what I knew however do: Feed the loneliness with carbs and fat. That felt good."
The 59-year-old admitted that struggling with her value made for a challenging adolescence.
"I got teased mercilessly increasing up due to the fact that achromatic girls weren't expected to person each this junk," she said. "We weren't expected to person this benignant of figure. We were expected to beryllium truly skinny similar those girls connected Charlie's Angels."
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Abbott Elementary airs Wednesdays astatine 9 p.m. connected ABC.
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--Reporting by Dayn Nanda
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