Jazz Jennings hasn't ever felt higher since shedding 70 kilos.
“70 pounds down! Feeling happier and healthier than I’ve been in years,” Jennings, 23, wrote by way of Instagram on Friday, January 19. “I still have a ways to go, but I’m so proud to finally be taking the necessary steps toward bettering my mind, body and spirit 💜💜💜.”
Jennings’ empowering caption accompanied a washing swimsuit pic, during which she flashed twin peace indicators whilst putting out on a seaside.
Jennings has lengthy been candid about her weight reduction adventure, first revealing in 2021 that she struggled with binge consuming.
“As many of you have noticed, over the past few years, I have gained a substantial amount of weight,” she wrote by way of Instagram in June 2021, detailing her meals dependancy. “My binging, along with an increased appetite I experience from some of the meds I’m on, has caused me to gain almost 100 pounds in a little less than 2 years.”
She added on the time, “I’m ready to change my ways; I’ve been saying I’m ready to turn over a new leaf, but I’m running out of trees now. I’m ready to take the initiative and create positive changes when it comes to my health and body. I have a fabulous team supporting me, both professionals and family/friends, but at the end of the day, I have to be the one committed toward bettering myself. I know I have the power in me to lose the weight.”
Months later, Jennings published on her TLC docuseries, I Am Jazz, that her struggles started when she used to be coping with “severe” psychological well being problems in 2019. (Jennings deferred her admission to Harvard College that 12 months amid her psychological well being fight.)
“Having all this extra weight, I can’t do so many things with my body that I used to be able to do,” she recalled throughout a November 2021 episode. “I do experience fat-shaming from my family. It makes me feel really humiliated.”
Weeks later, Jennings defined in some other episode that she used to be able to lose the load.
“I honestly feel beautiful [at] every shape and size. I love my body the way it is. But I will say that I am trying to lose weight for health reasons,” the LGBTQIA+ activist stated in a December 2021 episode. “I have to feel good, too, and I don’t feel good with some of the foods that I have been eating. I really am working on this weight loss so I can be healthier and more me.”
Jennings rose to repute in 2015 when her I Am Jazz collection premiered on TLC, which documented her youth after she publicly got here out as transgender. She underwent gender affirmation surgical treatment in 2019.