{"id":292042,"date":"2020-05-06T18:25:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T00:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1149114"},"modified":"2020-05-06T18:25:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T00:25:25","slug":"kaitlyn-bristowe-reveals-she-once-weighed-just-93-pounds-while-addicted-to-valium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/kaitlyn-bristowe-reveals-she-once-weighed-just-93-pounds-while-addicted-to-valium\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaitlyn Bristowe Reveals She Once Weighed Just 93 Pounds While Addicted to Valium"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"43.414634146341\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"28.292682926829\">\n<p>Just when you though&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kaitlyn_bristowe\">Kaitlyn Bristowe<\/a><\/strong> revealed everything one could know about her, she does it again.<\/p>\n<p>When she joined&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/chris_soules\">Chris Soules<\/a><\/strong>&#8216; season of&nbsp;<em>The Bachelor<\/em> she let people in on her&nbsp;dry sense of humor, before revealing a more emotional side as the lead in the next season of&nbsp;<em>The Bachelorette<\/em>. Afterwards, she stayed a constant figure in the lives of Bachelor Nation fans through her podcast&nbsp;<em>Off the Vine<\/em>, where she talked about anything and everything under the sun. And now, in her latest endeavor, a YouTube show called&nbsp;<em>9 to Wine<\/em>, the 34-year-old got candid about the ups and downs made her the person she is today.<\/p>\n<p>In her inaugural episode, the podcast host delved into her entire life story, starting with her childhood. She recalled being a &#8220;drama queen&#8221; from a very young age, which was one of the first signs that she was destined to do &#8220;big things.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From her teens onward, the star tried to make it as a dancer in Vancouver, all the while working small jobs as a waitress.&nbsp;Kaitlyn said she had &#8220;no idea&#8221; what kept her going, but eventually she had her big break when she landed a gig as a dancer for the Canadian Football League.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"11\">\n<p>Kaitlyn joked that she thought she &#8220;peaked&#8221; with her job in the CFL and it was all &#8220;downhill&#8221; from there.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Little did she know that in the next few months she&#8217;d give up on her dance career to&nbsp;live with a hockey player in Newfoundland, away from everyone she knew and loved. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t even realize I was a hopeless romantic that would do anything for love. That&#8217;s what got me onto&nbsp;<em>The Bachelor<\/em>, maybe that was my path and didn&#8217;t even know it yet,&#8221; she mused.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"63\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"16\">\n<p>While her new life in the somewhat foreign country was &#8220;very hard,&#8221; she agreed to move even further when her boyfriend was signed to a team in Germany. She said, &#8220;Everything in me told me to follow my heart&#8230; but a small part of me was dying everyday that I wasn&#8217;t doing what I loved to do. And I think that was really hard for me and I think that would be really hard for anyone to lose&nbsp;that part of passion in your life, just to follow somebody else&#8217;s dream.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She eventually realized that life in Germany with her hockey-player boyfriend wasn&#8217;t meant to be, because she felt that she had &#8220;completely lost&#8221; who she was by being there.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She moved back into her parent&#8217;s house when she was just 27-years-old and then sought treatment for depression. Kaitlyn revealed that when she went into the doctor&#8217;s office she felt like she &#8220;had nothing and that life was over for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"42.182509505703\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019527\/rs_634x1024-190627153631-634-kaitlyn-bristowe-mv-62719.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Kaitlyn Bristowe, Jason Tartick\" alt=\"Kaitlyn Bristowe, Jason Tartick\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"25.500959692898\">\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve given up all my hopes and dreams and that the love of my life has now gone,&#8221; she said of her state of mind at the time. Upon revealing these thoughts to the doctor, he placed her on Valium, although she said wasn&#8217;t unaware &#8220;what it would do to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At first, she said the medication was &#8220;great,&#8221; but she soon started showing alarming behavior. &#8220;I had become addicted to Valium and I was about 93 lb and that is when somebody had to shake me and say you can&#8217;t live like this, this is not you,&#8221; Kaitlyn remembered. &#8220;I&#8217;ll never forget my mom coming into the room middle of the night with YouTube videos of hypnotizing people saying, &#8216;You&#8217;re happy, you&#8217;re going to be okay,&#8217; and she just played it in my ear as I slept.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Years have since gone by and Kaitlyn can now say she&nbsp;came out of that dark moment in her life&nbsp;having learned an important lesson: &#8220;You cannot make somebody else responsible for your own happiness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not long after, she would be introduced to the world on Chris Soules&#8217; season of&nbsp;<em>The Bachelor<\/em>&nbsp;and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1088286\/a-year-after-her-big-split-kaitlyn-bristowe-is-doing-just-fine-thank-you-very-much\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the rest is history.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">If you or someone you know needs help, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1149114\/kaitlyn-bristowe-reveals-she-once-weighed-just-93-pounds-while-addicted-to-valium?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! 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