Rebel Wilson says her team gave her 'a lot of pushback' about her weight loss

Rebel Wilson lost 77 pounds during what she calls her "Year of Health" in 2020, but her team initially didn't want her to lose any weight.

"I got a lot of pushback from my own team, actually, here in Hollywood when I said, 'OK, I'm gonna do this Year of Health [and] I feel like I'm really gonna physically transform and change my life,'" the 41-year-old Australian actress, comedian and singer told BBC News. "And they were like, 'Why? Why would you want to do that?' Because I was earning millions of dollars being the funny fat girl."

Wilson has starred in comedic classics such as "Bridesmaids" and the "Pitch Perfect" trilogy. Her character's name in "Pitch Perfect," to her point, was "Fat Amy."

Later in the interview, Wilson explained that she was still confident in herself when she "was double the size, sometimes triple the weight of other actresses," but she still knew "deep down inside some of the emotional eating behaviors I was doing was not healthy."

Wilson has previously publicly discussed another top personal goal: wanting to get pregnant, revealing last December that she froze her eggs, and she gave an update with BBC: "I'm still trying on the fertility journey, even though it is emotional. You get hopeful, and then your hopes are dashed, and so I feel for any woman going through it. But I was a classic example of a career woman who went out into the world, didn't even think about kids, and then suddenly in your mid-30s is like, 'Oh, hang on, do I want that as an option?'"

Wilson added "it could be great" to have her own kids, but she's reserving herself from having any expectations, other than "I'm the healthiest I can be, I'm gonna try, and what will happen will happen."

Watch Wilson's full BBC News segment below.