In 1996, Donna D’Errico lent his body and his name to one of the rescuers who supported David Hasselhoff and became, for two seasons, one of the main characters of Baywatch, the series that catapulted to fame, among other actresses, Pamela Anderson, Carmen Electra and Yasmine Bleeth. Although her career continued to be active for the next several decades, On July 4, his name reappeared on the main portals, when he decided to pay a particular tribute to the independence of his country.
The actress, who currently he is 54 years olduploaded a video to her Instagram account in which she is seen posing in a skimpy bikini in the colors of the American flag. The controversy did not take long to break out, when the message was filled with malicious comments. But far from being intimidated by the criticism, she decided to double down.
This week, the actress shared another image on the same social network in which she is also seen posing in a two-piece swimsuit. And in the text with which she decided to accompany the photograph, she not only emphasized the negative comments she received at the beginning of the month, but she ended up making it clear that she does not plan to stop showing her body. .
“Many women complained about the 4th of July video I posted in a red white and blue bikini because they thought I was ‘dressier than that’ and ‘too old to wear a bikini.’ My favorite comment is that I’m ‘desperate to show myself’”, began expressing the actress. And she continued: “Let me tell you something that may surprise you: I can use and do literally anything I want. In that sense, here I am in a bikini squatting on a coffee table..
In the midst of the controversy, in an interview with Fox News, the actress explained: “There was a time when I allowed what others thought of me to really bother me and even dictate my actions. And those ‘others’ I’m talking about were almost exclusively other women. Strangers in public or haters online, many women seem to love taking other women down.”.
“It affected me for quite some time. No matter how good I felt about how I saw myself; when I would leave my house and be photographed, most women would rip me to shreds and would make fun of me in online comments,” she explained.
“They always loved making fun of my legs,” he exemplified. “I have thick legs, always have and always will. That’s how I’m made. They also made fun of my feet, my hands, stretch marks, cellulite, my teeth because they’re too big… That I’m too short, that I’m not as pretty as this or that actress, that my dress is ugly, that I don’t have style, that my face is too round, that my eyes are too far apart, that my eyebrows are too thin, that my hair is too low… There is not an inch of my body that has not been criticized”, he added.
And he recalled: “I remember when I was in Baywatch, a journalist was interviewing me on camera while wearing my swimsuit. She pointed to my leg and asked, ‘What is that?’ I watched as the camera pointed to where she was pointing at my leg. She was pointing to the stretch marks on one of my hips, which had developed during pregnancy with my son. She knew very well what it was, but she wanted to point them out on camera and ask me about it.”
“Then the camera refocused on me waiting for my response. I looked around awkwardly and then at the ground and said quietly, ‘Stretch marks.’ So the reporter said, ‘Did you say stretch marks?’ And I saw that the camera was pointed at my legs again. I thought I was going to vomit. I looked at the reporter and she was smiling. I finished the interview and ran out and started crying. Women are just bad,” she assured.
“I can pose for photos and manage to look hot, but in real life I am very self-conscious,” she said a while ago. Many of the messages that she receives in each of the posts that she makes on the networks refer to the fact that the passage of time does not seem to have affected her. She laughs at herself and explains that in addition to enviable genetics and a rigorous exercise routine, the operating room did the same. “I had an arm lift, a tummy tuck, a liposuction and a fat transfer to my buttocks, all in one day,” he confessed in one of his messages. In another, she recounted that she underwent treatment to have “a more defined jawline and smoother, softer skin along the jawline and neck.”.
In the same way that today he is no longer ashamed to show his body or talk about the surgeries he underwent, D’Errico also decided to make his ailments public. In 2021, D’Errico took to his Instagram account for a heartfelt reveal. “Today I’ve been alcohol-free for a year”began the extensive text that garnered almost 30 thousand likes.
“When I stopped drinking, a lot of really interesting things started happening. I began to make conscious decisions in every area of my life,” the story continues. “I learned how to really address my stressors instead of numbing them, and in doing so I realized that you can’t selectively numb: if you numb the bad, you also numb the good,” explained D’Errico.
In several interviews, D’Errico said that her faith helped her through her darkest moments. A fervent Catholic, the actress attends mass every week and prays the rosary daily with her children. “I made mistakes and decisions in my past that I wouldn’t make today. It is a chapter of my life in which I have closed the door. It’s like it’s someone else. That Donna is not who I am today, ”she expressed a while ago.