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- Chrissy Metz's New Life Away from L.A.: In Love, in Control of Her Health and 'Happier Than Ever' (Exclusive)</p>
<p>Gillian TellingAugust 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM</p>
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<p>Chrissy Metz</p>
<p>Chrissy Metz is getting candid about her new life in Nashville, and being so grateful for a career resurgence</p>
<p>She's also newly in love, and excited to be in a supportive relationship that truly makes her feel good about herself</p>
<p>She's taking control of her health in order to "live the longest life possible," while still understanding that "skinniness doesn't equal happiness"</p>
<p>Wherever Chrissy Metz goes these days, she can feel eyes on her — but only because fans are super obsessed with coming up to her to tell her how much they love her.</p>
<p>"I was just crying with these two women on the plane today," says Metz, who left Los Angeles in 2020 for Nashville, where she'd been spending time recording music. "They had a family member who was ill, and they told me how much they'd loved watching This Is Us as a family and what it meant to them."</p>
<p>During another recent flight, a woman dropped her a note to say she was taking her son to an eating disorder clinic, and that Metz's presence on TV had helped him realize his self-worth was more than what he'd been doing to his body.</p>
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<p>"I was just sobbing," Metz, 44, says of the experience. "But I've always been the people's person. People truly love to come up and share everything with me. I think it's because they know I want to listen. I'll have a real conversation with you. I'll cry in the bathroom with you." She adds, "I know what it's like to need someone to talk to."</p>
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<p>Justin Hartley as Kevin, Chrissy Metz as Kate, Sterling K. Brown as Randall on 'This Is Us'</p>
<p>She's grateful every day to be able to help others, but in a new, exclusive cover story for PEOPLE, she says recognizing her own self-worth has been a work in progress, despite her becoming a household name and earning an Emmy nomination for starring on This Is Us from 2016 to 2022, and now being a part of The Hunting Wives, undoubtedly the hottest show of the summer.</p>
<p>"I was always the chubby girl, and I was also sort of the only one," she recalls of a childhood where she often felt "less than" compared to her cheerleaders and horseback rider friends.</p>
<p>"We'd go shopping at Wet Seal, and I wanted to wear the cute shorts and outfits, but all I could fit were the accessories," she says. "It was really hard."</p>
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<p>Chrissy Metz circa 2006 in Los Angeles</p>
<p>She'd turn to food for comfort in moments of need. She's now aware that it was disordered eating, but at the time, it felt like a friend. "It was my crutch, the love to fill in the holes," she says. She never drank very much or smoked or did drugs and still doesn't: "Food was always my thing."</p>
<p>A move to Hollywood to try acting was her ticket out of Florida, and, being naturally funny and outgoing, she thought she could carve out a career as the funny girl actress. "I wanted to be the female Jim Carrey," she says. But it was slow going.</p>
<p>"Every single role was for a tall, skinny blonde. . . . Plus-size girls were either the butt of the joke or couldn't be attractive. One director told me I was 'too cute' to play the side chick," she says.</p>
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<p>Chrissy Metz with Madison Wolfe in 'The Hunting Wives'</p>
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<p>Of course, she then nabbed the role that changed her life — Kate Pearson on This Is Us — and now lives a life so full she can hardly believe it. Now, she's getting roles that have "nothing to do with pant size."</p>
<p>She also records songs, has written two children's books, loved filming The Hunting Wives, and is now filming a new drama opposite Liev Schreiber for Apple+ TV.</p>
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<p>Chrissy Metz at City Winery in 2022</p>
<p>She's also newly in love.</p>
<p>"He's so supportive and so kind," she says of her new man, an electrical engineer that she's been dating for a year and prefers to keep out of the spotlight.</p>
<p>"I'm like, this relationship makes me feel good about myself? What's the catch?" she says with a laugh. She's also embarking on a new health journey that includes strength training, meal prepping and focusing on her longevity. "I want to live the longest life possible," she says of her new attitude towards health.</p>
<p>Chrissy Metz/Instagram</p>
<p>Chrissy Metz with her 'Hunting Wives' costars, Katie Lowes, Malin Akerman, Brittany Snow and Jamie Ray Newman</p>
<p>For more on Chrissy Metz, pick up the newest cover of PEOPLE on stands Friday.</p>
<p>She notes that this doesn't mean she's going to suddenly get super skinny. "I know skinniness doesn't equal happiness. I just want to be health-positive. I never said I wanted to be the face of body-positivity. It's not that I condone morbid obesity or heroin chic. I condone a healthy body."</p>
<p>She notes that all that truly matters is whether she feels good about herself as a person at the end of each day, and making sure to count her blessings: "I never thought I'd have all of this."</p>
<p>The Hunting Wives is streaming now on Netflix.</p>
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