Giuliana Rancic: people call me disgustingly skinny, theres nothing I can do

May 2024 · 4 minute read

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Giuliana Rancic has a new interview with People Magazine in which she addresses the criticism that she’s too thin. The last time Giuliana responded to a question about her tiny frame, she said she wasn’t going to talk about it. “I think the best thing to do, honestly, is not even talk about it. As long as you know the truth, that’s all that matters.” Now Giuliana is telling us her truth, which is that the anti-cancer medication she’s taking is making it hard for her to put on weight. Giuliana tells People that the speculation has “gotten out of hand.”

“Some people were saying, ‘The cancer is probably back,’ ” Rancic, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011 and underwent a double mastectomy that year, tells PEOPLE. “And they were accusing me of every eating disorder. I thought to myself, ‘God, if someone really thought I had an eating disorder, what a horrible way to approach it.’ ”

Thankfully, Rancic, 40, is healthy, though she says the cancer-suppressing medication she has been taking since 2012 has had an effect on her body.

“I started noticing that I was eating a lot, but not gaining weight at all,” Rancic says. “I was concerned.”

Her oncologist, Dr. Dev Paul of Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers in Denver, Colorado, informed her that the drug, which can alter metabolism, could cause weight loss.

“It’s really hurtful,” says Rancic of the attention, adding that she had hoped criticism about her appearance would quiet down on its own. “I’m sorry that some people think I’m disgustingly skinny, as they put it, but there’s nothing I can do. I’m lucky that I even have the type of cancer that reacts to the medicine.”

When it comes to her appetite, “I eat more than any of my friends,” she says. “I eat a very robust, healthy, balanced diet and dessert almost every night. I’m not hiding from anything…

“I look in the mirror and it’s hard for me,” she admits. “I am really thin. I want to look fit and beautiful and sexy, and I can’t.”

“I never want my weight to distract people from what I do,” she says. “But it is becoming a distraction, [whenever] I wear something sleeveless, show my arms, my back.”

In fact, Rancic says a major publication was interested in featuring her but backed out, telling her she was “too skinny.”

“That was really hurtful,” she says. “I thought, ‘Wow, I’m on cancer medication. I’m doing the best that I can.’ ”

Despite the public backlash, that mindset has served Rancic well.

“I refuse to be broken [by what people say],” she says. “I have so many beautiful things in my life.”

[From People Magazine]

That must be incredibly hard to deal with for someone in the public eye. Health issues are serious and we never know what is going on with someone. Plus online trolls can be so awful.

On the other side, Giuliana was called too thin before she was diagnosed with cancer. Of course she may have been thin because of the then-undiagnosed cancer, so it’s unfair either way. Giuliana admitted back in early 2010 that her doctor wanted her to gain 10 pounds to increase her chances of conceiving a baby. She would only gain five, citing the fact that she worked in an image-focused industry. She defended herself against similar criticism back in early 2011 too, saying that Rachel Zoe and Victoria Beckham were also very thin and were able to conceive children.

Also, she has a diet and fitness blog and she’s written in the past about following a very low calorie diet to the point of eschewing any croutons on her salad, never having butter, and insisting on steamed vegetables always. (Here’s a look at her now-deleted 2009 diet plan via The Wayback Machine. Copy and paste it somewhere to see.) As much as she says she eats whatever she wants and cannot gain weight, it just doesn’t ring true. I do hope she’s ok and that she’s able to gain some weight for her health and well being.

Giuliana is addressing this due to the response over this recent Instagram photo she posted. Radar called her not “much larger than her 2-year Duke” and in another post called her “boney and frail”. Some Instagram commenters were ruder.

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