Melissa McCarthy in 2025
McCarthy also discussed her early struggles with body image during a 2017 interview with Rolling Stone, reflecting on the pressure she felt as a teen.
“I do think I worried about weight too soon, when it was only little-kid weight,” she said. “I thought I battled weight throughout high school, but I look back at pictures of me as a cheerleader, doing sprints, lifting weights, doing gymnastics, playing tennis, while I wasn’t reed-thin like some girls … I was a size six the entire time. So what on Earth was I freaking out about?”
She added, “We’re so f—– up in this country that somehow equates that with better.”
