Osher Gunsberg Is The Ripped Vegan Mental Health Advocate We All Didn’t Know We Needed
"I always said I’d never take my shirt off on camera unless it was for the cover of Men's Health Australia," Osher wrote. "I’m a man of my word."
Perennial reality TV host Osher Gunsberg has appeared on the front cover of the magazine Men’s Health Australia — but not without promoting a noble cause.
“I always said I’d never take my shirt off on camera unless it was for the cover of Men’s Health Australia,” Gunsberg wrote on Facebook this morning. “I’m a man of my word.”
The Bachelor/Bachelorette/Bachelor in Paradise/Bondi Rescue host has been a vocal mental health advocate since revealing his ongoing struggles with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in 2016.
Gunsberg says that he started to exercise as a way to “help me manage life off of meds”.
“I hadn’t been on antipsychotics for about 18 months before I started this,” he wrote. “Coming off meds altogether in December meant that I needed to put management strategies in the place where they once were.”
“It’s now seven months off meds, and I’m still under doctor’s supervision — because there’s a big difference between not taking meds and not NEEDING to take meds.”
He continues:
“The mental health benefits are incredible, the physical health benefits are off the chart (my Dr can’t believe my blood pressure for a 44yo) and let’s be honest, the aesthetic benefits aren’t bad either.”
In the interview with Men’s Health, Gunsberg reveals that he’s so far lost half his body fat. He told of his struggles with weight as a young kid.
“At the all-boys rugby school I attended in Brisbane, I was the only fat kid in my class,” he says in the interview. “I’m probably lighter now than i was then. I remember being in 110s when I was a teenager. I was bullied pretty hard. I ate terribly, drank way too much soft drink, ate pizza and burgers. I stayed that way for a long time.”
You can catch the full interview in this month’s Men’s Health mag.
Here’s Gunserg’s full Facebook post: