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Rebel Wilson Talks Briefly Trying Ozempic, Changing Her Name at 17

The Australian actress was born with the name Melanie.

The 44-year-old Australian actress is opening up about her entire life in her new memoir, Rebel Rising, including her troubled childhood. She said that as a child he hit her across the face three times and that he once tried to grab her and threatened her, saying, "I’m going to choke you and kill you if you say one more thing, Melanie … I’m going to throttle you." "I wasn’t dealing with my emotions properly, I was just stuffing my face and holding on to them," the Pitch Perfect star told The Sunday Times.

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