Kristen Johnston’s Recent Weight Gain: Now and Then Photos Examined!
Fans were surprised when Kristen Johnston (@kjothesmartass) returned to the comedy, Mom, much heavier compared to her now and then appearance. However, the actress later revealed that she underwent significant weight gain due to the meds she was taking to battle Lupus. At the time, she said on Twitter, “I recently switched meds and the weight is coming off.”
In 2014, Johnston was diagnosed with lupus myelitis. No one knew what she had for months, and she was severely sick. Later, she told RadarOnline.com. that, “I was sicker than I’ve ever been in my life. No doctor seemed capable of giving me a diagnosis. For the next six months, I was so weak I couldn’t stand, walk or even hold my head up.” She even admitted that she spent the majority of her days in bed, explaining, “I had to wear a neck brace because my head was limply falling forward on my chest. I was confined to my wheelchair.”
The Emmy winner claims she is now cancer-free. However, she has additional skeletons in her closet, including bouts with drug and alcohol addiction, as well as allegations of anorexia. In this RadarOnline.com gallery, Johnston opened up about her history and reflects on it. In her biography Guts, the former 3rd Rock from the Sun actress admitted,
I’m a pill-popping lush. That’s me – just your simple, everyday, alcoholic, pill-popping addict-slash-actress. I’ve spent a large extent of my life plowed.
Kristen Johnston wrote that her addictions began in high school when peers teased her about her height, and she developed a liking for Wild Turkey. She once took Vicodin from a friend whose mother had knee surgery to feed her drug addiction. She even ingested pain relievers prescribed for her dog. By 2006, Johnston was taking 30 to 40 Vicodin pills each day. She suffered excruciating ulcers, a severe intestinal condition, and ballooned to 190 pounds, prompting suicidal ideation. She wrote,
If I had a gun at that moment, I would’ve used it without hesitation…I wanted death.
After experiencing acute peritonitis, she was transported to the hospital. She stopped drinking alcohol after leaving the hospital, added more vegetables and salads to her diet, and lost 60 pounds in 18 months, raising concerns that she was anorexic. Currently, she enjoys yoga and hiking, but she is the first to acknowledge that she is not one of those people who care about their weight. She exclaimed,
I still eat meet and smoke cigarettes – which makes me weird in L.A.
