‘Love Is Blind’ Star Hannah Jiles Reveals How She Lost 75 Lbs. With Liposuction and More

Love Is Blind star Hannah Jiles is living for her post-show glow-up! The reality star debuted a 75-pound weight loss shortly after season 7 premiered, and it wasn’t done with the help of Ozempic.

“It’s a lot [about] feeling better about myself and a little bit of revenge,” Hannah, 27, told Us Weekly in an article published on Tuesday, October 22. “I think when you watch the show, I was already on a journey. I’ve always struggled with my weight, my entire life. Whether I was skinny or whether I was heavier, I just had problems. I like to eat. I like to binge eat. I don’t like working out. During COVID, I gained a lot of weight, like a lot of people did. I was just feeling sorry for myself and never did anything about it, essentially.”

The West Virginia native opened up about how she realized that she used food “to cope” and how she could change that line of thinking.

“After the show, I realized a lot of things. I got on anxiety medication, which I think really helped me. I don’t have as much anxiety, so I’m not anxiously eating,” Hannah said.

The Love Is Blind star also revealed that she had undergone liposuction when she had reached her highest weight of 220 pounds. She also said that she began running for exercise and being more mindful of what she ate.

“I got down to 175 before the show. And I had gotten liposuction too, maybe a year [or] a year and a half before the show, on my lower abdomen, my back and my neck, thinking, ‘These are things that I don’t like, let’s change them,’” Hannah explained to the outlet. “And then after the show, I was just like, ‘OK, I do love myself, but I do think I could be fitter and healthier. I can be better and feel better.’”

She continued, “Weighing yourself, I feel like, is such a thing. I think my mom said that for high school graduation, her mom got her a scale. … I weigh myself every two weeks. I don’t weigh myself any more than that. That’s just to keep track [and] to make sure I’m not going off the wagon. To weigh yourself every day — there’s definitely times when I’ve done it and I have to remember like, ‘Hannah, it’s not about the number and the scale.’ But you do have to keep yourself in check, too.’”

Hannah previously denied that she had used weight loss drugs like Ozempic to help her achieve the weight loss. Instead, she relied on things like “portion control.”

“I didn’t really cut back on what I ate. I’ve done crash diets in the past. They don’t work for me. If I just eat what I normally eat [but] just eat a smaller portion, I’m OK. I try to eat protein. I don’t like cooking meat at home, it grosses me out, so I eat a lot of fish at home,” Hannah said. “It’s easier. I try to eat proteins and some greens. Thankfully, I’m not a picky eater. But then if I want french fries for dinner, then I’ll have french fries for dinner. I just balance it out.”