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Taylor Lautner Says Twilight Led to Body Image Issues
Taylor Lautner is getting candid about assemblage image.
The histrion precocious shared however starring successful the Twilight movie franchise, wherever helium played werewolf Jacob Black, impacted the mode helium viewed his body.
"When I was successful it, erstwhile I was 16 done 20 years old, starring successful this franchise wherever my quality is known for taking his garment disconnected each different second," Lautner said connected The Squeeze podcast Feb. 1, "no, I did not cognize that it was affecting maine oregon going to impact maine successful the aboriginal with assemblage image, but present looking backmost astatine it, of people it did, and of people it is going to."
Lautner recalled the carnal translation helium undertook to play the character, arsenic good arsenic the toll it took connected him.
"In the archetypal movie, I was 140 pounds, and successful New Moon I was 175," helium continued. "So yeah, that wasn't my earthy body. I had to enactment precise hard for it and very, precise hard conscionable to support it."
After the franchise ended successful 2012, the 30-year-old elaborate his hesitation of going to the gym aft being "forced to beryllium successful a gym aggregate times a day, six days a week" portion filming Twilight.
"What happens erstwhile you don't privation to spot a gym? You commencement losing the 8 pack. I started having much mean of a body," helium said. "I retrieve 1 of the archetypal times seeing it online was precise tough. I was filming a movie called Run The Tide, and my quality successful that is not expected to beryllium a assemblage builder oregon ripped feline successful immoderate way. I thought I looked fine."
He continued, "They enactment the side-by-sides of maine shirtless successful the water successful a country from that movie compared to maine successful Eclipse oregon immoderate and being like, 'Wow, he's fto it each go.' I was like, 'Oh, man. Did I truly fto it each go?' I didn't deliberation I looked that bad."
The examination images had a sedate effect connected his intelligence health, with Lautner noting helium would "get successful signifier and fto it go."
"I've gotten steadfast again, but successful bid to get my assemblage physically healthy, it took my caput getting steadfast first," helium said. "But yeah, those side-by-side images continued for years and years, and it messed with me. It hurt."
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Reflecting backmost connected the experience, Lautner emphasized wherefore prioritizing intelligence wellness and self-care goes hand-in-hand with assemblage image.
"Your assemblage tin look unbelievable, you tin beryllium ripped, shredded, immoderate you tin suffer weight, you tin enactment connected muscle," helium said, "and if you're not steadfast mentally, past that's each for thing due to the fact that that tin enactment against you."
For men experiencing assemblage representation issues, Lautner issued a reminder that what they spot successful the reflector tin beryllium a merchandise of however their encephalon "sees things differently."
"It's not arsenic atrocious arsenic you think," helium said. "You ever archer yourself that it's worse than it is."
Above all, Lautner said that taking attraction of your assemblage should beryllium done "for the close reasons."
"Don't find happiness successful what you privation your assemblage to look like," helium said. "Don't deliberation conscionable due to the fact that you suffer the 20 pounds oregon enactment connected the muscle, you're going to aftermath up and look successful the reflector and each of a abrupt beryllium happy. That's not wherever you should beryllium uncovering value."
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