2) Shes had trouble finding designers to dress her. Melissa has been super-clear and open about the fact that shes struggled to find designers to dress her for big awards shows. "When I go shopping, most of the time I'm disappointed," she told Redbook in 2014. "Two Oscars ago, I couldn't find anybody to do a dress for me. I asked five or six designersvery high-level ones who make lots of dresses for peopleand they all said no." Getty Images
3) Soshe started designing her own clothing lines. Melissa has designed clothes for Lane Bryant and launched her own Melissa McCarthy Seven7 line. Women come in all sizes. Seventy percent of women in the United States are a size 14 or above, and thats technically plus-size, so youre taking your biggest category of people and telling them, Youre not really worthy. I find that very strange, she told Refinery29 . I just think, if youre going to make womens clothing, make womens clothing. Designers that put everyone in categories are over-complicating something that should be easy. Getty Images
4) She isnt a huge fan of dieting. "I could eat healthier, I could drink less," she told Rolling Stone in 2014. "I should be learning another language and working out more, but I'm just always saying, 'Ah, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow.'" Getty Images
5) She makes it very clear that no one should be hung up on appearances. Melissa is a huge proponent of body positivity, and in 2016, she shared an empowering message on Instagram : We have to stop categorizing and judging women based on their bodies. We are teaching young girls to strive for unattainable perfection instead of feeling healthy and happy in their own skin," she wrote, adding this quote by Gloria Steinem at the end: "Imagine we are linked not ranked." Getty Images
6) She lost 50 pounds by being 'boring.' Melissa lost 50 pounds in 2015just by changing the way she thinks about her weight, according to Life & Style "I truly stopped worrying about it," she told the magazine. "I think there's something to kinda loosening up and not being so nervous and rigid about it that, bizarrely, has worked." Melissa also attributed her weight loss to, well, not doing much of anything at all: No trick, nothing to tell, just super-boring life," she told ExtraTV . "You bring it real down, you dont do anything fun, and you go to bed at 7:30that's the trick." Getty Images
7) During that time, Melissa also revamped her exercise routine. As soon as she got word she was going to star in Spy, alongside Jude Law, she started kicking up her exercise routine. ""The second I knew I was doing the movie, I started training with an amazing martial arts instructor," Melissa told Life & Style . Getty Images
8) Melissa's kept the weight offand maybe even lost more. During her most recent appearance at the Toronto Film Festival, Melissa looked so good that many speculated she may have lost even more weight. Getty Images
