CNN
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Maddie Baillio is feeling actually good nowadays.
The actress who starred as Tracy Turnblad in 2016’s “Hairspray Stay!” has revealed her 150 pound weight reduction.
“I’m in a stunning, wholesome relationship with myself and my physique and my household and my accomplice, [boyfriend Solomon Reynolds],” Baillio not too long ago instructed Individuals. “I’m in a way more centered, grounded place.”
The previous plus-sized star instructed the publication that whereas she had all the time felt comfy in her physique, it was whereas filming the “Cinderella” remake starring Camila Cabello that she struggled to maintain up together with her fitter costars.
“There was a scene that didn’t make it within the film, the place me and the opposite stepsister [Charlotte Spencer] led a gaggle of like 300 women — improbable dancers, slender, that they had it occurring — down this 50-yard pathway to the fort singing ‘Single Girls’ and dancing,” she stated. “I couldn’t sustain with the choreography. I stored dropping my breath. We’d have to begin reshooting the scene time and again for me.”
Then Covid-19 hit, she stated, and she or he started strolling throughout her free time and altering her weight loss program, finally changing into vegan.
Now Baillio is greater than half the scale she was, has extra power and is happy for her future, she stated.
“I’m impressed by the altering mentality,” she stated. “I wanna play my dream roles on Broadway that don’t have anything to do with my weight. And I positively see it going that route.”