Acting is not all glamorous headshots and red carpets.
She has starred in many projects in many genres, not just family-friendly romances.
“You just get filthy,” Helfer said.
So you just get used to being in there."
Helfer also told the story of a small on-set injury with a railing in the elevator set.
OnFacebookin 2010, she shared a photo of an X-ray of her spine.
“Maybe explain why I’ve been laid up for awhile I’m now part robot!
Four artificial discs.”
She also gave her doctor a shout-out.
In an interview withThe Washington Postfour years later, Helfer spoke more about her surgery.
“That was definitely life-changing.
It brought back a renewed sense of youth.”
Unfortunately, Helfer dealt with another scary and quite unexpected health issue years later.
Hair extensions poisoned Helfer with lead
A common hair product caused Tricia Helfer to get sick.
set told Helfer she had multiple bald spots.
Despite the scary news, there was a silver lining.
Helfer told the outlet, “It was a definite relief.
It’s almost like a light bulb moment of like, ‘Oh okay, this makes sense.
Now I can grasp onto something to fix it as opposed to just feeling a little lost.’
I could do the treatments and hopefully not have any kind of permanent damage.”
With the right treatment and time, Helfer reversed the effects of the heavy metal poisoning.
Helfer faced difficulties changing careers
The road from professional model to professional actor isn’t unusual.
Tricia Helfer toldCinemablendin 2009the hardest thing about the leap from model to actor.
“To be honest, to be taken seriously,” Helfer said.
“Models have a stigma that they can’t act.”
“So it can be really tricky,” Helfer added.
“You just have to be persistent,” Helfer said.
“So, I really did downplay it a lot,” Helfer said.
It happened when she was 12 years old after a berry-picking excursion.
Also on the trip with Helfer were her three sisters and her grandmother.
“It fell over and perfectly landed on my dad’s head 20 feet down.
We thought we lost him.”
However, he was not unconscious for long.
“He came back to and miraculously wasn’t hurt except for a sore neck,” Helfer said.
She told the outlet that her goal was to focus on the current moment more.
I don’t always do that," she said.
