Natasha Henstridge has played a genetically-altered alien/human hybrid in the movie trilogy Species and has been known for her killer body. But, according to her that killer physique was close to “extreme.”
“I’ve done some things that probably weren’t the smartest things in the world,” reveals Henstridge, now 34, about taking “pills” and over the counter supplements to give her an “extra boost” to be thinner. “I’ve even been to Chinese herbalists who’ve given me herbs and acupuncture,” she says, thinking that they were “innocent and healthy.”
Now, after she became a mother of two children, she realizes that both drugs and diets were damaging to her health.
“All of a sudden when you decide to go clean, things are changing in your body because you done a bit of damage,” she says. Sporting a curvier figure last month, Henstridge is happier – and healthier – than ever. “My body has definitely gone through a change since coming off all the crazy yo-yo stuff,” she admits of putting on weight.
Henstridge is currently promoting her ABC TV movie Impact, as well as staying active with mountain biking and an intense cardio and weight training boot camp at Pulse Fitness in Sherman Oaks, Calif. Looking back at her journey, Henstridge smiles, “it was eye-opening.”
