During the Bravo series' Jan. 22 play 5 reunion episode, big Andy Cohen enactment Heather successful the blistery spot by speechmaking a question from a instrumentality who accused the Bad Mormon author of gaining an "edge" aft her transformation, adding, "Can you spot however you were giving mean miss vigor this season?"
"That's conscionable an absorbing read," Heather fired back. "I conjecture erstwhile I was heavier, I was much of an underdog truthful it was good erstwhile I stuck up for myself. Season 1 Heather had a batch much assurance than this miss sitting here. This amusement strips you of your ego, it strips you of your confidence."
The 50-year-old added that, anterior to losing much than 20 pounds, "I had to combat a batch harder battles and I was a batch meaner and I brought a batch much choler and rage than this play for sure."
Costar Mary Cosby then chimed successful to stock immoderate encouraging words of enactment with her longtime friend.
"I consciousness similar Heather is different," Mary noted. "She likes herself more, she's pouring much emotion into herself. I consciousness similar erstwhile I archetypal met Heather 5 years agone she was precise dark, she was not happy. She was trying to ascent retired of a truly heavy spot that she had been near successful from whoever ridiculed her oregon whoever tore her down and she's antithetic now. Now she's much self-assured and if she feels similar she's gonna travel aft somebody, present she's much assured to bash it."
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Heather adjacent reflected connected however she didn't ever consciousness 100 percent unafraid successful her assemblage during RHOSLC's aboriginal seasons.
"You person to person a batch much assurance to amusement up erstwhile nary apparel fit," she admitted. "I'm wearing a stretchy jumpsuit, I'm adjacent to each of these beauteous women. You person to person assurance successful spades to bash this full show."
The parent of 3 adjacent got affectional defending herself from antagonistic commentors.
"Because I americium blessed and I americium arrogant of myself," she continued, "and I don't privation that to marque maine meaner. I americium different, but it has thing to bash with the information that I took medicine to marque maine suffer weight."
"I've been shamed for conscionable astir everything and anything," she told E! News successful September. "I got shamed for being overweight and I got shamed for being connected medication. So, you can't win."
"I'm inactive the same," she added. "I'm consciousness the same. I consciousness similar I liked myself then, I similar myself now. It's conscionable Ozempic became disposable and it worked for me."
See The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City reunion proceed erstwhile portion 2 airs Wednesday, Jan. 29, astatine 8 p.m. connected Bravo.
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