Daniella Monet Was ‘Right down to Abercrombie Child Sizes’ As A Teen

Former Nickelodeon star Daniella Monet is letting down her partitions and opening up about her teenage years.

The actress, who’s finest recognized for her position in “Victorious” alongside Victoria Justice and Ariana Grande, mirrored on the struggles of coping with irritable bowel syndrome when she was a teen.

Daniella Monet even admitted that she was “right down to Abercrombie child sizes” on the time.

When chatting on Taylor Lautner and his spouse Taylor’s podcast, “The Squeeze,” Daniella Monet recounted her teenage battle with irritable bowel syndrome. She opened up about her journey, going so far as mentioning she needed to search skilled assist after she “was having issues with my abdomen and digesting meals.”

The previous Nickelodeon actress ended up on remedy that unintentionally triggered her to shed a major quantity of weight. “I dropped a lot weight from being on all these meds” that she stopped having her interval for almost 5 years.

“Think about you’ll eat meals,” and it will “come proper out of me. “And it was so uncomfortable. I used to be at all times in ache.”

Based on the Mayo Clinic, IBS is a continual situation that impacts the abdomen and intestines and causes “cramping, stomach ache, bloating, fuel, and diarrhea or constipation.”

Because of the medicines and her IBS struggles, Monet dropped clothes sizes, elevating considerations.

“You are dropping all these sizes. You are right down to, like, Abercrombie child sizes, they usually’re letting the hem out of the denims to make them longer as a result of I had no waist,” she recalled of the time she was starring on “Zoey 101.” “I used to be actually at my lowest, possibly, like, excessive 70 lbs. at 16 years outdated.”

“I used to be so, so skinny, and everybody was making an attempt to have a look at me and say, like, ‘Is she throwing up? Is she anorexic?” she stated on the podcast, including that it appeared everybody ignored the truth that she was on remedy. “Certain, there was plenty of these pressures throughout me, however you may’t ignore the half about all these new meds being in me,” she stated.

Along with her struggles with IBS, Daniella Monet says she additionally confronted challenges that affected each her psychological and bodily well being, together with her mother and father’ separation and a two-hour commute to a studio for work.

“Now I can look again and say, effectively, that looks like there’s fairly a little bit of environmental stuff that was taking place,” Monet defined.

On the time, her medical doctors “weren’t saying, like, ‘Oh, she could be careworn. Possibly she’s not sleeping sufficient. Possibly she’s not ingesting sufficient water. Possibly she’s not getting the very best vitamin. Like, possibly she’s not having time to maneuver her physique correctly.'”

Monet later stated that she felt compelled to take management of her well being, choosing a “holistic wellness” strategy to handle her IBS, which finally helped her regain weight.

“Let me let you know, going from that weight to about 130 lbs. in a really quick time period was a experience — mentally, bodily, emotionally,” she continued.

Schneider, recognized for his involvement in reveals like “All That,” “The Amanda Present,” and “Zoey 101,” has been the topic of allegations and controversies concerning his conduct on set, together with accusations of inappropriate conduct in the direction of underage actors, making a poisonous office atmosphere, and situations of racism and sexism.

Whereas many actors admitted to watching the docuseries, Daniella Monet informed Individuals, “I by no means watched it. I in all probability will not,” including that her expertise working for the community wasn’t the identical as what was informed within the challenge.

“The benefit of my journey with Nickelodeon is I used to be a bit older,” Monet stated. “I used to be an grownup and I might additionally grown up within the trade whereas like most of my forged, apart from Victoria [Justice] in fact, like they have been sort of inexperienced.”