Last week Whitney Port (who is an influencer best known for being on The Hills) posted on Instagram and acknowledged that she’s lost a lot of weight recently. People had been commenting on her photos saying things like “I’m concerned for you” but when her husband said he was worried for her, she said it made her pay attention. She said she wasn’t trying to lose weight on purpose but struggled to know what to eat and didn’t always make feeding herself a priority. Now she’s addressing her weight loss on her podcast With Whit, as well as how media outlets have covered the story. They’ve brought up other things she said in interviews years ago about restricting calories after seeing herself on TV for the first time, and not eating pasta. She explained that she just doesn’t like the texture of pasta.
Whitney Port had “no idea” she “weighed as little” as she did until she stepped on the scale.
The “Hills” star called the moment an “eye-opener” in Tuesday’s episode of her “With Whit” podcast, explaining, “Once you see the numbers, the numbers can’t lie.”
Port, 38, noted, “In my head, I didn’t think it was as big of a deal as it actually was, and I still don’t really. But I do think I’m clearly not eating enough and that how I look right now does not look healthy. It’s not how I want to look.
“I complain a lot about my lack of energy,” she continued. “Part of that stems from not giving myself what it actually needs.”
The former reality star asked her fans not to “worry” because she plans to “eat thoughtfully” and “put the right things in [her] body,” as well as “work out in a way that will build muscle.”
She promised, “I’m on it, guys. … I don’t think it’s as big of an issue as it may seem.”
Her prior statements about weight loss came up again: In the wake of her honest social media upload, past interviews resurfaced in which the fashion designer revealed she had “never tried pasta before” and was only eating 1,000 calories daily at one point in her life.
Port addressed those statements Tuesday, calling the focus on them “salacious.”
She clarified that the lack of pasta in her life was “just a pure texture thing,” claiming, “It has nothing to do with nutrition and that it can be a cause of weight gain.”
As for her calorie intake, she said the restriction stemmed from seeing herself on TV and being “a little bit shocked” by how “pudgy” she looked onscreen.
“That started maybe a slippery slope of some control issues over what I look like,” Port recalled.
I didn’t know she said those things about restricting her calories so severely and it is concerning. Whitney strikes me as a very “type A” person so it makes sense that she’s struggled with control and what sounds like perfectionism in the past. Also when she was on that show in the 2000s, we were in such a different place culturally around food, eating, and standards of beauty. Things aren’t perfect now but they were worse back then. Of course she had body dysmorphia when she was on TV in 2008! It would be shocking if she didn’t! She also talks about food in moralistic terms in the podcast, referring to putting the “right” things in her body, and calling the ice cream and pizza she’s been eating on vacation as “junk.” I know a lot of people sort food into “good” and “bad” categories but if she feels guilty for eating those types of foods on vacation, that makes me feel really sad because that’s one of the joys of being on holiday. It’s ok to indulge in higher-calorie foods on special occasions. Also a lot of people commented on my last post about Whitney and pointed out that low appetite/forgetting to eat can be common in people who have ADHD or are otherwise neurodivergent. That could be another part of Whitney’s struggle to make nutrition a priority. I really hope she has some professional support with this, whether from a dietitian or a therapist or both.
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