For about a decade, the internet has treated Chrissy Metz’s body as a public serial, with new episodes every time she stepped onto a red carpet. The most useful thing she has done in that time is keep telling the story herself, in her own words, including the parts that do not fit a tidy before-and-after. In August 2026, at 45, she added a new chapter: she is taking a GLP-1 medication, and she would like everyone to know she was a skeptic for six years first.
The contract story, told properly
The old version of this page, like half the internet, said her weight-loss journey “started in 2017” because a TV contract told it to. The real timeline is messier and more interesting. This Is Us premiered on NBC in September 2016, and that November Metz told TVLine that her deal tied her weight loss to Kate’s arc, calling it “a win-win for me.” She later clarified that she was not under pressure from anyone to lose weight, and that the arc belonged to the character.
She also said something in 2017 that I think is the key to the whole saga: “You have to use what you have, and I wouldn’t have this role if I had already lost weight.” Hollywood spent years asking whether she would change. She was pointing out that the job existed because she had not. The role brought her an Emmy nomination and two Golden Globe nominations, which is a decent return on being yourself.
What she has actually said about weight
The earlier version of this article claimed she had “lost over 100 pounds” thanks to a nutritionist and a personal trainer hired for the show. Here is what is actually on the record. Metz has said that after a hospital visit around her 30th birthday, years before This Is Us, she lost about 100 pounds in under five months by eating a 2,000-calorie diet and walking 20 minutes a day. In her 2018 memoir, This Is Me, she wrote about a childhood in which food and her body were under constant commentary at home.
In 2017 she told Marie Claire, “I don’t worry about numbers,” and she has stuck to that line for nine years. She still does not publish a figure for her current weight, and neither will we. Any site quoting you an exact number is quoting itself.
2026: the GLP-1 decision
On August 10, 2026, Metz told People and E! News that she has started a GLP-1 through the telehealth company Ro, for which she is now a brand ambassador. “I was very skeptical of starting a GLP-1 for a very long time,” she told E!. “I’m talking probably six years, since really COVID.” Her reasons, as she put them to People: “I’m in perimenopause, and there were obesity issues within my family and with my father.”
What she describes is not a dress size. It is quiet. “It’s so nice not to be obsessing about what I’m going to have every minute,” she said, and she credits the medication with less joint pain and inflammation and better blood work. She also added the sentence I would put on the label: “I know it’s not a magic wand, and I need to change other things.” She is working with a trainer and lifting weights, and her stated goal is to “feel strong and not have my morning ruined because I stepped on a scale.”
My read: the partnership with Ro is a commercial deal, and readers should weigh her words with that in mind. But the substance is consistent with what she has said since 2017. Health, mobility and peace with food are the point; the number is not.
The work, not the weigh-in
Since This Is Us ended in 2022, Metz has kept busy in ways that have nothing to do with a scale. In 2025 she played Starr, a grieving single mother hunting for her daughter’s killer, in the Texas thriller The Hunting Wives, which reached a large audience on Netflix. On June 16, 2026, two days ahead of schedule, she made her Broadway debut as Angélique in & Juliet at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, in a limited run through September 13. Eight shows a week, which she summed up to Playbill as “the dogs are barking and the legs are screaming.”
The quote from that run that stayed with me: “This was the first time in a long time that I’m like, ‘Oh, I’m proud of myself.'” That is the transformation story worth writing about, and it did not need a before photo.
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Her love life, corrected
One more repair. This page used to say she was “happily married to her husband, Josh Stancil.” She was not; Stancil, a camera operator, was a boyfriend from her early This Is Us years. Her most recent public relationship was with Nashville songwriter Bradley Collins, with whom she wrote the children’s book When I Talk to God, I Talk About You. On October 6, 2023, they announced in a joint Instagram post that “after three and a half years together, we’ve decided to end our romantic relationship amicably,” adding that they still had “books to write, songs to sing.” She has not announced a new partner since, and she has never been married. Hollywood logic would call that a plot hole. I call it a private life.
The take
I have watched this story be told about Chrissy Metz for ten years, and the most reliable narrator has always been Chrissy Metz. The public serial wanted a finale with a number in it; she keeps handing us a woman who wants to be strong, mobile and proud of herself on a Broadway stage. That is not the weight-loss story the old headlines promised. It is a better one.
Sources
- Chrissy Metz on Instagram: & Juliet, September 2026
- Chrissy Metz on Instagram (@chrissymetz)
- E! News: Chrissy Metz on starting a GLP-1 (Aug 10, 2026)
- Hello! quoting her People interview on GLP-1 and Ro (Aug 10, 2026)
- Playbill: Chrissy Metz on & Juliet (Aug 5, 2026)
- BroadwayWorld: Broadway debut announcement (May 28, 2026)
- TVLine: Metz on her This Is Us contract (Nov 17, 2016)
- Fox News: Metz and Bradley Collins split (Oct 7, 2023)
- Yahoo/People: timeline of Metz’s statements on her health
