Chrissie Swan showcases her incredible weight loss as she reveals how she copes with backlash: ‘People took pleasure in tearing me down’

Chrissie Swan has showcased her slimmed-down figure in a glamorous new photoshoot in which she opens up about how she handles life in the public eye.

The veteran radio personality, 52, stuns on the cover of this week’s Stellar magazine, as she flaunts her incredible figure in both a striking pin-stripe blazer and an eye-popping orange power suit.

The Melbourne-born star exuded confidence and style in the striking photos as she showcased her striking new figure, after losing over 90kg in recent years.

Chrissie reflected on some of the challenges she has faced being in the public eye across her two-decade long career, revealing how she is able to stay indifferent when her personal life is reported on.

‘I think I might be an unusual person because the headlines don’t bother me… they never have, if they’re about me, my body or people’s perceptions,’ she told the publication.

‘I keep a very low profile, mainly because I’m sick of talking about myself, because I do it for two hours a day. I’ve always known myself very well, I’ve always told the truth, not consciously, but because I can’t not.’

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Chrissie Swan has showcased her slimmed-down figure in a glamorous new photoshoot in which she opens up about how she handles life in the public eye

She added that she used to be hurt by some of the negative commentary, such as when she received public backlash in 2011 after she was nominated for a Gold Logie for her work on the Channel Ten morning show The Circle.

‘It’s a lot quieter now, but there have been times when “celebrity” meant something. It felt like people would take great pleasure in viciously tearing me down. I always was like, “Why would they do that?”… Do you know what helped?’ she said.

‘I was being eviscerated because I dared be nominated for a Gold Logie back when the public bought TV Week and filled out the form. An extraordinary honour, I couldn’t believe it. And I was eviscerated for that, which I still don’t really understand.’

Chrissie said she decided to respond to the criticisms with her trademark cheeky humour.

‘Everywhere I would look, there would be people debating whether I should have been nominated. It’s like, “Guys, it’s not up to me and it’s not up to you, sorry. It’s out of our hands”,’ she said.

She said that she began to ignore the criticism after seeing another famous person receive backlash, which helped her realise that it came with the territory.

‘I remember reading a really mean article about Hamish Blake and thinking, “Oh God, if someone can be mean about Hamish, they can be mean about anybody. It doesn’t mean anything because Hamish is heaven”,’ she said.

‘So that fixed it for me. I thought, they’re just gonna write what they write. It doesn’t mean it’s true. If you have a preconception of me or you think I’m the sort of person that would do something or whatever you think of me, I’m absolutely fine with it.’

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The veteran radio personality stuns on the cover of this week’s Stellar magazine, as she flaunted her incredible figure in both a striking pin-stripe blazer and an eye-popping orange power suit

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The Melbourne-born star exuded confidence and style in the striking photos as she showcased her striking new figure, after losing over 90kg in recent years. Pictured in 2010

The Masked Singer judge previously touched on her weight loss in an interview with The Australian Women’s Weekly in 2022, confirming that Melbourne‘s lengthy Covid lockdowns were the catalyst for her health and fitness kick.

She said the ‘enormous’ lifestyle changes she’d made during that time had significantly improved her well-being.

‘We couldn’t go out to dinner, we couldn’t go to a friend’s house, they couldn’t come to us, we couldn’t go outside five kilometres,’ she said, adding: ‘All we could do was walk… so that’s what I did,’ she said.

In another interview with The Herald Sun, Chrissie said she felt amazing and had never been happier.

‘It is actually great and I don’t think you can feel that way until you have done the years,’ she said.

Speaking to The Imperfects podcast, Chrissie raved about how walking had improved her life.

‘I was 45 and I went, “I reckon I’m halfway to dying”,’ she said.

‘Am I happy with this going on? Am I happy with who I am with other people, am I happy with who I am for me? What do I want to change? And then I started to walk, and I get emotional thinking about it because walking has absolutely changed my life.’

Source: https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15861291/Stellar-Chrissie-Swan-slimmed-look.html