You may remember Parker McKenna Posey as the cute and loveable little Kady Kyle on My Wife and Kids with Damon Wayans and Tisha Campbell. Well, today she’s one busy 28-year-old!
Besides being an Instagram influencer, she’s a full-time mom, self-proclaimed fitness lover, and stars on the BET hit show Games People Play, and has a recurring role on A House Divided on the AllBlk channel on Amazon.
During an interview with BET, Posey shared how her professional career started to change for the worse as she got older. And it wasn’t like she started to look bad, actually the opposite–she became very curvy like her mom.
When she started going through puberty, she noticed that she started to look a lot different than the other young girls who were going out for the same roles. Because she wasn’t the teeny, tiny cute little Kady anymore, the roles started to dry up.
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“When I hit puberty and things started changing around 12, 13, I realized I’m not about to be a twig anymore. I’m not going to just have a kid body anymore,” she said.
“And even going out for my auditions back then used to be hard because I didn’t look my age. My body was just a little bit different than everybody I was competing with. So that’s really when it hit me. I realized, ‘Ok, I’m probably going to be a little bit curvier.’ And back then I was like, ‘I don’t like it.’ It bothered me, mainly because it affected my work and auditioning and stuff like that. I stood out more so than I needed to.”
“I didn’t even know if I wanted to act anymore, what I really wanted to do. I moved away and was just in a crazy situation, so it’s time to start getting things together. I want to feel better, I want to look my best. Cause like I said, I was super skinny and I was feeling frumpy for once in my life and just not feeling myself.”
So she sought out the expertise of a personal trainer and linked up with Quinton Horton.
Quinton works with actors, models, and everyday people with regular 9-5 jobs who are trying to find a way to get a handle on their health.
According to his website, Quinton’s main goal is to educate, inspire, and transfer some healthy belief systems that can change his client’s lives forever.
With Horton’s help, Posey was able to gain weight in the right places she wanted to, while toning up, plus looking and feeling her best.
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Horton is also the co-creator of the fitness program Secrets2Sexy which helped in the transformation of Posey.
But it’s not all about fitness with Posey, she also tries to eat right. But she admits that she needs help in the eating healthy department like most of us do too.
“I am so bad when it comes to dieting. I love food way too much,” she said.
“So I really love that about Q. He knows that I’m going to eat my pastrami chili cheese fries and all that stuff, but he makes sure to get me in the gym and tone those areas. Work on what I have and not focus on what I don’t have.”
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As of now, Posey continues to workout nearly daily and is even a brand ambassador for a few fitness and swimsuit brands. Here are some of her fitness pictures below (Photo gallery continues on next page):
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Celebrity Weight-Loss Secrets We Totally Approve Of
On top of making headlines for their scandalous behavior, accolades and relationship woes, celebrities often become known for their intense diet and fitness regimens—ahem, Beyoncé’s pre-Dreamgirls Master Cleanse. And while some stars go from one extreme to another to shed weight, others have really figured out how to live a balanced, healthy lifestyle.
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Here, we’ve rounded up some of the best tips from stars like Jennifer Hudson, Angela Bassett and First Lady Michelle Obama, among others – all whom know how to drop pounds without completely depriving themselves of some of life’s pleasures – food and festivities!
1. Eat clean. If you’ve ever wondered how Angela Bassett maintains her insane figure — at 57-years-young at that — the big screen veteran credits a healthy diet (duh). “I try to watch my diet so I can fit into whatever I am wearing. Cut the sugar, the alcohol, and the bread, and eat a lot of protein and veggies,” she once told Us Weekly.
2. Get excited. Kelly Rowland shed 70 pounds post baby by keeping her energy up. “Jeanette Jenkins is the secret, SoulCycle is the secret,” Rowland told “Extra” in March 2015. She added, “When I go in there and it’s the wee hours of the morning she is a great secret, so motivational.” She continued, “Jeanette comes in with so much energy and this huge smile on her face and you can’t help but to get excited about working out.”
3. Know why you want to lose weight. According to Jennifer Hudson, “the key about losing weight: You have to do it for you,” she once told People. “It’s not about even starting the journey, it’s about you. You have to want to do it. And you can’t let what everyone has to say overshadow what you want for you.”
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4. Hit the weights. “You don’t have to be a weightlifter,” FLOTUS Michelle Obama wrote while guest-editing Village. “I know a lot of women get worried about muscle definition. But actually, I’ve been told by fitness experts that the average person will not bulk up on the weights that we can lift. You want to have some weight training in your routine, especially as women, to make sure we’ve got strong bone density. And it helps with that toning, those little areas that we don’t like that flap a little bit, that aren’t as tight. That’s where lifting comes in, once you’ve gotten your cardio in there.”
5. Don’t starve yourself. “I don’t believe in starving myself. I’ve never done it, and I never will,” Naomi Campbell told Shape in March 2014. “I’m even more active when I’m juicing, doing both yoga and Pilates every day.” She said her eating plan is clean, and she starts the day with hot water with lemon and an intense yoga session.
Sure, in most cases, celebs reach their weight loss goals with the assistance of personal trainers, private chefs, and maybe even a plastic surgeon or two. But that doesn’t mean you can’t practice more attainable habits to sculpt or preserve a flawless physique.
