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Mayim Bialik labeled her experience with GLP-1 drugs a \u201cnightmare\u201d in a candid new essay. <\/p>\n
\u201cI grew up in the limelight, with my appearance scrutinized weekly from the time I starred in my own NBC show at 14,\u201d the \u201cBlossom\u201d actress\u00a0wrote in a Free Press essay<\/a>\u00a0titled \u201cMy GLP-1 Nightmare\u201d published Friday.<\/p>\n \u201cI was blissfully unaware of my weight back then,\u201d she wrote, describing her younger self as \u201cnaturally lanky and athletic\u201d and being able to eat \u201cwhatever I wanted with no concern for weight gain.\u201d<\/p>\n However, the former \u201cJeopardy!\u201d host<\/a> wrote that as a teen she was \u201cput on medication to manage my moods<\/a>, and weight gain followed me from there.\u201d<\/p>\n Bialik, now 50, wrote of acquiring a \u201cdeep sense of shame around my body\u201d by her 40s, when she was \u201cstill actively working as an actress.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBy the time social media arrived \u2014 with its fixation on being thinner, more toned, more surgically perfected \u2014 that pressure tipped into a disordered relationship with food that I have spent years trying to untangle,\u201d the \u201cBig Bang Theory\u201d alum<\/a> wrote.<\/p>\n