Alicia Machado She is a very direct actress when she talks about the problems she has had to overcome throughout her life, and now she opened up with Alejandro Chabán, who interviewed her for her podcast. The ex miss Universe reported, among other things, that he weighed 48 kilos, that he was a victim of bullying in Venezuela and that entered the reality show “The House of the Famous” suffering from great depression.
The 46-year-old Venezuelan began the conversation by saying what her favorite tequila was, but also that she stopped drinking too much, because “Many years ago I was addicted to amphetamines, to pills. I have never been into drugs of any other kind, I have never tried cocaine, for example; I have smoked marijuana, obviously. I had cancer, but I have never been into that type of drug and when I was very young, at the peak of my career, at 20 years old, two protagonists with about ratings ridiculous, I had just finished Miss Universe and had a lot of money in the bank, well, nothing, I had my crazy life, I had my Britney Spears time, I had a hard time.”
That phase in Alicia’s life began after her participation in the competition. miss Universein 1996: “Coming out of Miss Universe, until I was about 26 years old when I healed. Basically my health, my thing, were pepa and champagne, to lose weight, amphetamines. One would go to work, I remember that I would go to work pepa and it was coffee and cigarettes, 14 hours, 15 hours of recording. I weighed 48 kilos and won Miss Universe at 55. I was a chronic anorexic, I had two intensive therapies and I became bulimic…I was a happy, normal, healthy girl, they raised me very well, an athlete, I was a dancer from the age of four…My time at Miss Universe was somewhat traumatic and that resulted in some illnesses and some mental disorders.. Because of that bullying and those attacks that I received during that time, and I was suffering from bulimia and anorexia for almost six years, almost seven years.”
It was from there that Machado attempted suicide., which he has commented on other occasions but now returned to: “After Miss Universe, between 19 and 20 I had a suicide attempt, and then I tried to hurt myself again. I was going to turn 22. All those things that happened so many years ago, fortunately there were no instagramneither Facebookand thank God, because if not, I would not be here.”
He added that “there is not a person who has had a bullying more aggressive than me. In all parts of the world there were headlines, in Cairo, in Egypt, “Miss Pig”, “she is a cow”, “she is a pig”, without mentioning what was happening in Latin America… to refer to a fat and deformed person was to talk by Alicia Machado.”
When Alice handed over her crown her transformation began, both internally and externally: “I was never really fat. It was a great advertising strategy. Me now, with all the movements that there are now, when the Me TooI really feel so…I don’t know how to explain it, I feel like I’m avenged, like they did me justice, something for me that I experienced firsthand between 96 and 97 and some time later. 10 years later I came to a casting in person and they told me: “Oh, but you’re not that fat,” and I was already anorexic. Carrying that out has been very difficult for me, I have lived all these years trying not to be seen as fat, where I am not.”
Alicia Machado also announced that she has just finished writing a book, titled The 13 Weeks With Alicia Machado. “It’s a kind of nutritional biography, that’s what I call it, it’s not a biography of my life, but it is a biography of everything I’ve gone through to find balance in my body, and not only look good and great, and having a great body, but rather liking the great body I have, because you can be fat and neglected, and feel happy.” He also gave a tip to girls for when they have negative feelings.: “Don’t drink alcohol, because alcohol, whatever it is, reaches the brain and does something to the people who suffer, or from depression, or from anxiety.”
Alicia was one of the most controversial characters in the reality show “The House of the Famous”, and also spoke about it: “I entered “La Casa De Los Famosos” with great depression. I was already treating myself because for me, one: the pandemic was devastating for me on a business level, I practically lost everything. And apart from that, my dad died, I couldn’t go to Venezuela, it was a disaster. I still haven’t gotten over my dad’s death, it’s hard for me to talk about it.” Throughout the conversation she always seemed convinced that she is in a new stage in her life: “I had a difficult time, but it’s over. Today I am a very strong woman. I have iron health. “I have an awareness of respecting differences and I am a blessed woman.”
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