Magda Szubanski shares health update following public battle with emotional eating

Magda Szubanski has revealed she is no-longer pre-diabetic.

The actress, 62, took to Instagram on Sunday to share a health update, alongside a picture of her very decadent breakfast.

‘My latest breakfast invention… scrambled eggs with truffle oil on top of some lightly fried cauliflower with a sprinkle of vegan Parmesan salt and pepper YUMMM,’ she wrote. 

The comic then revealed the result of her latest blood.

‘Have got my Hba1c (blood test) out of pre-diabetes and back in the normal range,’ she added. ‘I’m far from perfect but I just keep tryin.’ 

The actress, 62, took to Instagram on Sunday to share a health update, alongside a picture of her very decadent breakfast 

The star went on to promote Magda’s Big National Health Check, with her taking aim at the amount of sugar in foods. 

‘[Watch it] to find out how sugar is F****ING with us and why it is so hard to be healthy in Australia. 50% of Aussies live with chronic illness,’ she said. 

In November, Magda looked visibly distressed as she opened up about her battle with emotional eating on the ABC’s Big National Health Check.

She fought back tears while interviewing weight management expert Dr Lucy Burns, who spoke of how some people resort to binge-eating to cope with their emotional demons.

‘I think, really, that sense of sort of being able to forgive myself,’ she said tearfully.

‘Because I know people are like, “Why has she done that to herself?” And I felt I had no choice. It was the only sane decision I could make, given the alternatives that I faced.’ 

‘And then you become this, like, f**king shame magnet,’ she added.

‘And it’s like you’re not supposed to fight back. You are not allowed to defend yourself. You’re supposed to just hang your head again in shame and say, “I’ve brought this on myself.”‘

Magda listed her various health woes in an interview with TV Week magazine last October, and said she wondered if there were others with similar problems.

‘There are times in my life I’ve been absolutely blighted by illness,’ she said.

‘Have got my Hba1c (blood test) out of pre-diabetes and back in the normal range,’ she added. ‘I’m far from perfect but I just keep tryin.’ Pictured:  December, 2022 

In November, Magda looked visibly distressed as she opened up about her battle with emotional eating on the ABC’s Big National Health Check. Pictured 

‘Osteoarthritis, migraines, anxiety – I also suffer from sleep apnoea – and that leads me to ask, “Am I the only one who feels like this? Are other people feeling the same way? Do they have the same challenges?”‘ she added. 

Magda, a long-time activist who campaigned to change same-sex marriage laws in 2017, was previously the face of weight-loss company Jenny Craig.

She parted ways with Jenny Craig for the second time in 2014, later regaining the 40kg she had lost in the years that followed. 

Magda’s Big National Health Check premiered on the ABC last year. Pictured