Bachelorette star Kaitlyn Bristowe reveals she weighed just 93 pounds during addiction to Valium
BACHELORETTE star Kaitlyn Bristowe has launched a new venture with the revelation that she dropped to just 93 pounds during an addiction to Valium.
The 34-year-old discussed her past life and being diagnosed with depression in a candid inaugural episode of her new YouTube show 9 to Wine.
The Canadian beauty, who found fame on ABC’s The Bachelorette, usually reaches her fans through her popular podcast Off the Vine.
But this new launch saw her take a walk down memory lane with a surprise in store for viewers.
Discussing how she followed a boyfriend to Germany before realising it wasn’t working out she recalled: “I had nothing and that life was over for me, that I’d given up all my hopes and dreams, and that the love of my life was now gone.”
And dealing with the fact that at 27-year-old she was back living with her parents wasn’t easy.
After discussing her state of mind with a doctor she was prescribed the anti-anxiety medication.
Kaitlyn then admitted that she started to show “alarming behavior”.
“I had become addicted to Valium and I was about 93 lb and that is when somebody had to shake me and say you can’t live like this, this is not you,” she said.
Kaitlyn added: “I’ll never forget my mom coming into the room middle of the night with YouTube videos of hypnotizing people saying, ‘You’re happy, you’re going to be okay,’ and she just played it in my ear as I slept.”
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Kaitlyn’s first reality TV appearance was as a contestant on Chris Soules’s season of The Bachelor.
She then grabbed a spot on season 11 of spin-off show The Bachelorette, where she accepted a proposal from Shawn Booth.
Kaitlyn and Shawn dated for three years before calling it a day in November 2018.
She’s currently in a relationship with season 14 Bachelorrette star Jason Tartick.
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