“I tried amphetamine to lose weight before going to the Island of the Famous”: Guendalina Tavassi’s shocking confession

“I tried a diabetic drug. You had to get these shots and from then on you were no longer hungry. I did it 2 and a half years ago, I had to go to the Island of the Famous.” Guendalina Tavassi admits to having taken various types of drugs in order to lose weight in view of participating in the Canale 5 survival reality show. […]

“I tried a diabetic drug. You had to get these shots and from then on you were no longer hungry. I did it 2 and a half years ago, I had to go toIsland of the Famous”. Guendalina Tavassi admits to having taken various types of drugs to lose weight in view of participating in the Canale 5 survival reality show. “NoI couldn’t show myself like that” he says in a report from Hyenas dedicated to the so-called ‘aesthetic doping‘, “My problem was arriving and being seen by people”. And on the way in which she managed to get the substances prescribed, she reveals: “There is an underworld of people who illegally sell these things.”

Tavassi is just one of the people interviewed by the Italia 1 program to talk about all those substances that exist with a specific medical purpose but which are used for purposes other than those for which they were created and authorized. All in the name of aesthetics. A relationship, the one with one’s own image, which in many cases turns out to be complicated: “I have no relationship with the mirror, I hate it” explains Guendalina, “I mirror myself with the filter directly from the phone camera. I’m not saying I’m ugly but as long as I don’t disguise myself I can’t look at myself.” The influencer has undergone several touch-ups over the years to redo her nose, lips, breasts and eyelids. At the age of 38 she declares that she is not yet finished with surgery and dreaming of a facelift.

But that is not all. Again to lose weight, the former gieffina took other substances: “I tried ephedrine, amphetamine to lose weight. How was it? One second I was laughing, the next I was very angry, then I was crying, then I was laughing again. Heart pounding, I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t eat, I went crazy” she confesses. A real addiction, a vicious circle from which it is difficult to escape once you have entered. The ultimate, and unattainable, goal is to adhere to an ideal of perfect beauty that doesn’t actually exist and which does nothing but distance people from their true selves day after day.