Hairspray Live! Star Maddie Baillio Lost 150 Lbs! Wow!
11.11.2022 - 02:33
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Momma, she’s… a smaller girl now. Maddie Baillio revealed this week that she’s lost over half her body weight!
Maddie went from complete unknown to in-demand actress after being cast in NBC‘s 2016 production of Hairspray Live! She had always “been comfortable” with her body — which was perfect for the lead role of Tracy Turnblad. But while co-starring in 2020’s Cinderella with Camila Cabello, she realized she was having some trouble physically. That’s when her fitness journey began.
She told People on Wednesday:
She knew if she was going to keep slaying in musicals she was going to have to “build stamina.” So she took advantage of the months she suddenly have off due to COVID shutting down movies and Broadway to get in shape. While staying back home in Texas, she says, she just started moving:
Over time she found it was having a real effect on her body beyond having more energy:
So she took other steps — like cutting red meat from her diet, eventually going vegan. She also tried other workouts like hot yoga. Over the course of two years, she lost a whopping 150 lbs!
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The side effect of having all that extra energy? She was able to keep up with more than choreo:
Not only that, she’s also getting more opportunities!
So great! But the journey wasn’t without its struggles. Surprisingly, she says one of the things that bothered her most as she was losing weight was people cheering her on:
Something worth thinking about…
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Currently she’s living in LA with her boyfriend Solomon Reynolds. She tells the mag:
She’s knew Solomon way before she was famous — it’s a really