Claire Foy has revealed that she had to vary her weight loss program after discovering out that she was housing some undesirable company.
Speaking on the “Table Manners” podcast on Wednesday, the “The Crown” star instructed hosts Jessie and Lennie Ware that she had given up consuming caffeine, earlier than happening to elucidate why.
“Quite a few years ago, I had parasites. Gross,” she mentioned.
“I kept losing weight and I didn’t know what was going on,” mentioned Foy, 41, who mentioned she thinks she picked up the parasites in Morocco, and had them for “at least five years” earlier than she discovered.
“They travel as a pair, I got told by the doctor. Gross, absolutely rank. It’s disgusting,” mentioned Foy, who’s greatest recognized for enjoying Queen Elizabeth II within the hit Netflix sequence “The Crown,” in addition to for roles within the BBC dramas “Wolf Hall” and “A Very British Scandal.”
She then made adjustments to her weight loss program to deal with the parasites, she mentioned, as she “didn’t want to take really hardcore antibiotics.”
“I took all this little gross stuff, and part of that was giving up caffeine,” she mentioned, admitting that it wasn’t straightforward to take action, as somebody who used to drink “at least 15 cups of tea a day.”
Foy went on to disclose that she additionally restricts her weight loss program because of an autoimmune situation.
“This is my big secret, I feel like I’m in ‘The Traitors’ or something, and I’m letting everyone know that I’m related to someone,” she joked.
“I don’t actually eat gluten or sugar … except when I go out for dinner.”
Foy mentioned that she is “very strict but I love falling off the wagon when I’m out for dinner,” including that she isn’t allergic.
“It doesn’t have an impact on me. It’s just because I have an autoimmune condition, so I should avoid anything which causes more inflammation,” she mentioned.