- In the Netflix movie Stats, Jonah Hill spoke to her mother about being encouraged to lose weight as a child.
- He said being an overweight child inherently felt “bad” because of messages from society, his doctors, and his mother.
- Hill said that from his childhood experiences, he thought the female figure in his life would not accept his appearance.
Jonah Hill sat down with his mother, Sharon Lynn Cholkin, about how an overweight child affected his relationship with an adult woman, about trying to help her lose weight. I spoke honestly.
Their conversation took place in Stats, a Netflix documentary Hill directed about his therapist, psychiatrist Phil Stutz, who is best known for co-writing the self-help book The Tools. I’m here. This is a summary of visual and experiential exercises for healing and personal growth.
In “Stats,” Hill has a conversation with Stats about how he avoided exercise as an adult because of the negative messages he received as a child. He said he was looking for a way to lose weight. Told.
He said in the film that it also had a negative impact on his relationship with Hill and Cholkin, as well as the women he met as an adult.
“It immediately put you in a position to be the antagonist, like, ‘This is someone who won’t accept me,'” Hill told Czolkin.
“The idea is that a woman’s figure doesn’t accept your appearance,” Hill added.
When Cholkin joined Hill in conversation with Stutz, she said she believed Hill should have lost weight at that point. Chalkin said it stems from her childhood when she used to say, “It’s big like ’em.” He said he was worried about making sure
“I just did what I thought was right,” Cholkin told Hill. I thank him for sharing his experience.
Hill told Czolkin he didn’t blame her for trying to lose weight. He said realizing that young Czolkin likely felt the same way she did as a child helped him come to terms with what had happened.
