Carla Vilhena comments on the repercussion of a post about physical change: ‘I was very impressed’

Last week, Carla Vilhena, 57, shared a physical transformation she underwent a year ago. The journalist was surprised and did not expect the repercussions for good and for bad of the 10 kg loss she achieved thanks to her dietary changes. “I was very impressed.”

Carla said she has received praise and messages from people who suffer in silence with health problems such as depression and eating disorders, for example. “Many people have reached out to me to talk about a subject they often have no one to talk to. Others have sought encouragement, but I have also received several negative comments,” she lamented.

According to her, some internet users criticized her appearance and the former Globo and CNN Brasil presenter pointed out that the post was not about beauty. “They said I looked ‘ugly’… In fact, I wanted to show all the progress in my health, that I managed to change the numbers that were negative. I wasn’t healthy. Some people think it’s a matter of aesthetics, but it’s not. I gave thanks and I’m at peace, feeling good,” she told the newspaper O Globo.

Carla acknowledged that her father’s sudden death (from a heart attack) and the isolation during the pandemic weakened her health. Because of these problems, she became sedentary and, at one point, realized that she could not go up or down stairs. “I started to get scared about the loss of mobility, of physical capacity. Anything I did left me breathless. I had a check-up and my levels were high. Cholesterol, cortisol, spike in stress hormones… All of this shook me.

After the shock and disappointment with the result, Carla Vilhena sought help from model, speaker and presenter Solange Frazão, who recommended a nutritionist. “She put together a diet for me that I followed from April to August last year. I lost ten kilos, without feeling hungry. It was absurd,” she concluded.