The Residence’s Eliza Coupe Claps Back at Criticism of Her Appearance _ E! News

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00:00The Resonance star Eliza Koop is clapping back at criticism of her appearance. The Scrubs alum

00:05fires back at online haters of her recent red carpet look at the premiere of her Netflix series

00:10by sharing new selfies of her current appearance. She captions this Instagram reel,

00:16pictures from my camera roll from the past three weeks, and adds hashtags including,

00:20this is what I really look like, haters can hate, and I choose love. In the comments section,

00:25the 43-year-old's followers offer their support with one saying, A, you're beautiful, B, more

00:31importantly, you rock, and C, most importantly, as long as you're healthy and happy, no one's

00:36opinion but yours matters. Another follower simply adds, you are gorgeous. On March 19th,

00:42Eliza attended the Los Angeles premiere of The Resonance, rocking a plunging gold dress,

00:47a black fur coat, and black thigh-high boots. She also wore her blonde hair in a shaggy shoulder

00:52length too. Following the event, some online expressed concern for the star's health and made

00:57comments about her body. One ex-user wrote, damn, this is just sad. Scrub star Eliza Koop, 43,

01:04looked unrecognizable in Hollywood on Wednesday night. This looks like more than just normal

01:08aging. I really hope she has family and friends who can check in on her because this is deeply

01:13concerning. In the past, Eliza has spoken about her personal struggle with self-image. She said

01:18on a February episode of The Funny Thing Is podcast, I have, I mean, some might call it

01:25eating disorder. I call it just that's been my life of like food stuff. So my drug of choice

01:30was always food. Right. I did crazy s**t with it. And then being on amphetamines, you're not eating

01:35anyway. So it's like I would overexercise. And then there was like just a sprinkling of bulimia

01:41in there for a little while. And although she has had her issues with her diet, she has also

01:46made progress with her health and fitness goals. She told Bon Appetit in 2017, when I was 23,

01:52I cut all sugar out of my diet, quit drinking and found yoga and breathing and stretching.

01:57She added, I'm an actress with food issues and body image issues. That's real. But I'm trying

02:02to heal that part of myself and also handle my physical issues naturally by putting the

02:06best things into my body.