Daniella Monet Was ‘Down to Abercrombie Kid 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 identified 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 “all the way 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 medicine that unintentionally brought on her to shed a big 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’d eat meals,” and it could “come proper out of me. “And it was so uncomfortable. I used to be at all times in ache.”

In keeping with the Mayo Clinic, IBS is a continual situation that impacts the abdomen and intestines and causes “cramping, stomach ache, bloating, gasoline, and diarrhea or constipation.”

Because of the drugs and her IBS struggles, Monet dropped clothes sizes, elevating issues.

“You are dropping all these sizes. You are all the way down to, like, Abercrombie child sizes, and so they’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 previous.”

“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 mentioned on the podcast, including that it appeared everybody ignored the truth that she was on medicine. “Positive, there was a number of these pressures throughout me, however you’ll be able to’t ignore the half about all these new meds being in me,” she mentioned.

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 dad and mom’ separation and a two-hour commute to a studio for work.

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

On the time, her docs “weren’t saying, like, ‘Oh, she may be harassed. Perhaps she’s not sleeping sufficient. Perhaps she’s not ingesting sufficient water. Perhaps she’s not getting one of the best vitamin. Like, possibly she’s not having time to maneuver her physique correctly.'”

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

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

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

Whereas many actors admitted to watching the docuseries, Daniella Monet informed People, “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 venture.

“The advantage of my journey with Nickelodeon is I used to be somewhat older,” Monet mentioned. “I used to be an grownup and I would additionally grown up within the trade whereas like most of my forged, aside from Victoria [Justice] after all, like they have been type of inexperienced.”