MasterChef star Julie Goodwin's fiery statement over body comments: ‘Tired of it'
Julie Goodwin has issued a fiery statement after receiving a deluge of comments about her appearance.
The former MasterChef Australia star, 54, addressed concerns about her dramatic weight loss in an update on Instagram on Thursday, seemingly prompted by feedback on her most recent post.
'Thanks to all who have expressed concern about my health. I am well and I am within the healthy weight range. My doctor concurs,' Goodwin wrote.
'For those who have asked me for advice or tips, I am not qualified to provide this. It's advice that should be sought from your trusted health professionals, not from me. I'm a TV cook.
'For those who want to comment on the shape and condition of my body please, do it on your own page because I'm tired of reading it. For that reason I'll be turning off comments on this post.
'For all of us can we please find something more interesting to talk about. Can we please model kindness to our kids and grandkids and can we please leave this obsession with people's looks back in the 1980s. Peace and love.'
Goodwin's recent post sparked a number of comments from followers. Picture: Instagram
She found fame when she won the first season of the cooking series. Picture: Ten
The TV personality and author first found fame after winning MasterChef back in 2009, beating runner-up Poh Ling-Yeow, and later returned to the franchise for the 'All Stars' edition.
In 2016, Goodwin opened up about accidentally losing 20kgs, pointing out it was no cause for celebration.
'It's not that I've gone on some stupid, sad diet and dropped a whole heap of weight in a hurry. It's not anything like that,' she told Women's Weekly at the time.
'I am running a business and running around like a mad thing, and sometimes I forget to eat, none of which is healthy.'
After her MasterChef win, Goodwin went on to establish a successful career as a cookbook author, columnist, and regular TV contributor, but later admitted she had struggled with her mental health amid her rising fame.
She spoke about it on the Head Game podcast in March, describing it as going 'right down to the bottom of the well'.
The TV personality and author at an event last year. Picture:'I had made a decision that everybody, everybody, my colleagues, my children, my husband, my family, everybody would be better off if I just racked off and let them all be,' Goodwin said of her battle with depression and anxiety.
'I just had nothing left. It's a sickness, right, severe depression is a serious illness,' she explained.
'The only way I could shut off my brain late at night, was to drink wine, so I was doing too much of that. So I was self-medicating, and that's a terrible, terrible way to sleep, because you wake up with your heart hammering.'
Fortunately, as Goodwin recently told Nine Honey, she's now doing much better – but admitted it was an ongoing effort.
'I'm good, I really am. But it's a concentrated effort to remain good, you know.'
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