Eiza González Says 'My Body Became This Armor' While Opening Up About Health Struggles & Diagnosis
Eiza González is opening up about her health, her body, and living with endometriosis, adenomyosis, and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
The 36-year-old actress got candid about her various health challenges in the Spring 2026 cover story for Women’s Health.
During the conversation, Eiza opened up about grief after losing her father, body dysmorphia, and various chronic health challenges, as well as how she is prioritizing her health today.
Keep reading to find out more…
On her upcoming projects, In the Grey and I Love Boosters (Boots Riley) and her process of creating a character in I Love Boosters:
“I like bold characters. I love women with agency who are chaotic and in a way multifaceted, and I think those projects couldn’t be more different….I had a huge question mark on how to play her, and Boots was just like, ‘Go for it.’ And so we kind of created this deadpan emo character. You pray that it lands, because it’s a real big swing, and she’s hilarious. I find her really funny.”
On her acting career:
“I was so terrified when I broke into the industry [with 2017’s Baby Driver] because I was very self-conscious about English not being my first language. I felt like I was just never going to have the naturality that it took. Like when you’re speaking your language, you react in your language, and having to sort of fake that because you’re not in your natural language, people sometimes take for granted. Preparation and discipline are what really make the difference.”
On her struggles with confidence, body image, and self-consciousness after growing up in the public eye and navigating grief in the wake of her father’s passing when she was 12:
“It’s so funny because when I was young, I always thought, Oh my God, I’m so mature for my age. And everyone would say, ‘You’re so mature for your age. You’re incredibly mature for your age.’ And you start kind of believing that story….Now with age and maturity, in hindsight, I’m like, I was really unwell. I never went down a rabbit hole of alcoholism or [other addictions]—mine was just this incredibly complex journey with my own body.”
On how trauma shaped the dysfunctional relationship with her body as she turned to compulsive eating while she navigated the grief of her father’s passing:
“I ate my feelings for so long, my body became this armor.”
On the brutal tabloid culture era of the late ’90s and early 2000s, which contributed to her own long battle with body dysmorphia:
“It was horrifying. It was with the intent to make fun of them, to minimize them, to make them feel like they’re not good enough—or to humanize them but in a way that is vile, not in a compassionate or empathetic way but in a vicious way.”
On feeling relieved to see a shift in how women embrace their bodies:
“It’s so beautiful now when I see women flaunting their bodies the way they are. I’ve had cellulite since I was really young. I’m prone to it, with genetics, and I remember being, like, terrified of showing it, and now I’m just like, Who the f*ck cares?”
On how her perspective on trauma has evolved:
“[It] does ground you in a way, but you also realize that trauma is trauma, and it will destabilize you, and you can only try your utter best in those moments. It’s okay. It’s messy.”
On living with endometriosis, adenomyosis, and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), conditions that took years to properly identify:
“It just got to this place where eventually your body cracks, and sadly, it was kind of the situation for me….[It’s] the usual story you hear over and over again with women. It’s the ‘Oh, this is normal. This is part of your cycle. This is part of your cramps. Oh, this pain is normal. Oh, this level of bleeding is normal. Oh, these mood swings are normal. This weight gain is normal.’ And it’s just decades of that.”
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