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Yahoo
13-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Sophie Grégoire Trudeau says keeping her eating disorder a secret only made things worse: 'I was so ashamed ... I had to purge it out'
Sophie Grégoire Trudeau isn't afraid to open up about the struggles she's faced in life. The 49-year-old estranged wife of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently reflected on keeping her eating disorder a secret for years — and how opening up was "such a relief." The Montreal-native mental health advocate spoke at SHE Media CO-Lab at SXSW in Austin, Texas, on March 8, alongside other well-known figures like actress Naomi Watts, comedian Chelsea Handler and journalist Katie Couric. Grégoire Trudeau explained that sharing her health journey was also "the best thing I ever did," admitting she didn't talk right away. "I was so ashamed. Why me? What the heck? I think that keeping it in constricted my throat, and therefore I had to purge it out," she shared, according to Flow Space. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Flow Space (@thisisflowspace) The retired TV host added she was only able to reflect on her health after a moment of self-awareness: "I saw myself and I said, 'Enough. That's enough.'" However, Grégoire Trudeau noted being open about her experience felt risky, especially because she was new in the broadcast world. More like this: Sophie Grégoire Trudeau reflects on time as 'non-official First Lady' of Canada: 'It's been quite the journey, hasn't it?' Sophie Grégoire Trudeau's relationship with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is still 'full of love': 'At some point, you have to set them free' Sophie Grégoire Trudeau says she 'learned to cut ties' after split with PM Justin Trudeau: Everything she's said about relationships since their break up "I thought, 'I'm never going to get contracts again. People are just going to think of me as the lady who barfs,'" she recalled, adding the response she received "changed my life" and "the way I related to other human beings." For other people going through similar challenges, Grégoire Trudeau urged that most people have positive intentions: "Most human beings are good, and we want to help each other out. When I told my story, maybe some people didn't receive it well — but most did." It's not the first time the Closer Together author has gotten candid over the bulimia she experienced in her late teens and early 20s. Last spring, she shared similar sentiments about the eating disorder while speaking to former CTV News host Lisa LaFlamme during a fundraiser event in Kitchener-Waterloo. "I was ashamed and guilty," she said last May. "I remember being like, 'What the heck am I suffering from?' And every time I was telling myself, 'This is the last time. Why are you doing this to yourself?'" View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sophie Grégoire Trudeau (@sophiegregoiretrudeau) Grégoire Trudeau shared in 2017 that she was only able to get onto the path of recovery when she started sharing her story, where she saw support from her family and friends. "The moment I started sharing my story, obviously I had begun on my road to recovery," she said during an Eating Disorder Awareness Week event that year. In April 2024, Grégoire Trudeau spoke to Yahoo Canada about her story, explaining that eating disorders and anxiety were only the "tip of the iceberg." She recalled how her mother was hyper-focused on physical appearance, and that bled into how she learned to perceive herself. "I got lots of positive reinforcement when I kept my weight on the low side," she recalled. "So I internalized that concept and the pressure that accompanied it. I hid from the outside world, and bathrooms became a twisted safe haven." Eventually, she recalled one night during her second year of junior college where she was shaken up by purging for too long and too hard. She called for her mother and her parents soon got her help by seeing a therapist at Montreal's Sainte-Justine Hospital. "I started wanting to change my situation. I'm a quick learner," she shared with a laugh. "And I think that I was kind of curious and adventurous enough to go inside."
Yahoo
01-03-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Bringing awareness to eating disorders
Kindered Nutrition & Kinetics owner Amy Goldsmith joined the DMV Zone during Eating Disorder Awareness Week to bring awareness to consumers.
Yahoo
26-02-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
More than a hundred local pharmacies walkout, asking for PBM reform in Alabama
DECATUR, Ala. (WHNT) — More than a hundred locally-owned Alabama pharmacies turned off the lights, shut their doors and closed Tuesday afternoon. The unprecedented walkout is meant to call attention to proposed state reforms that would increase how much independent pharmacies are paid. Eating Disorder Awareness Week: Clinician shares importance of knowing signs, seeking treatment Neighborhood pharmacies are disappearing from communities across Alabama. Pharmacists say they are not being reimbursed as much as their corporate counterparts, and the profit gap is hitting them hard. Change could come from the state legislature this year. Two introduced bills would create reforms for pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). PBMs are the intermediaries between pharmacies and insurance companies, and they negotiate how much the pharmacy makes when you pay for your prescription. Chase Arrington, the owner of River City Pharmacy in Decatur, said many independent pharmacies are not making enough to survive. 'I think if something doesn't happen this legislative session, probably within a year or two there, there may not be any local pharmacies,' Arrington is asking state lawmakers to take on the system led by PBMs, who generally pay higher rates to corporate pharmacies. They are often affiliated with these pharmacies under the same company's ownership. CVS Health is the largest PBM with 21% of the U.S. market, followed by Optum RX, which is owned by United Health Group. Blue Cross, owned by Prime Therapeutics, has 10% of the market. 'Patients are already being steered to corporate-owned pharmacies or mail order and a lot of times that's not even what they want to do, that they're kind of forced that way,' Arrington said. Currently, PBMs can deny coverage for certain drugs at small pharmacies, and prescriptions are sometimes more expensive at a local drugstore than they would be at a large chain. Two Senate bills, SB 93 and SB 99, look to address these issues. SB 99 would offer more regulatory power to the Department of Insurance so it could set benchmarks for reimbursement. Both bills would require PBMs to pay pharmacies for the cost of dispensing drugs, and they call for those payments to come from PBM profits, not from consumers. Mother, stepfather of missing children found in Wyoming extradited to Alabama 'The healthcare system in this country is broken,' Arrington said. 'We all know that we're worried that the cost for health care for patients is continuing to climb and pharmacies are closing in every week. We just feel like PBM reform is important this legislative session to keep our patients' access to care there.' As a part of Tuesday's walkout, many local pharmacies are asking their customers to contact state lawmakers and tell them they support PBM reform. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
24-02-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Bicentennial Tower lighting up for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
The Bicentennial Tower is lighting up this evening for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. White Pine Center for Healing is celebrating Eating Disorder Awareness Week in an effort to bring awareness, understanding, and support to a vast majority of community people who experience eating disorders. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental health issue, second to opioid abuse. 'A person in this country dies from an eating disorder every 52 minutes. The top two causes of death are cardiac issues and suicide so these are serious serious mental health issues they're not a choice they're not a lifestyle they are a range of diseases that really affect the entire body,' said Mary Machuga the executive director of White Pine Center for Healing. The Bicentennial Tower will light up Monday evening at 6:30 p.m. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
