Trigger warning: This article contains discussions about pregnancy loss and eating disorders.
News in 2002, moving up the ranks until Rancic left the connection 17 years later.
Fans of the entertainment correspondent have been wonderingwhat really happened to the former E!
News anchor, especially after one particularly regrettable comment she made about Zendaya.
But sadly, Rancic actually had a very difficult time growing up.
The TV personality continued, “I always wore baggy clothes.
And I trained myself so I always looked like I was leaning on something.”
However, the experience never truly left the star.
Rancic responded: “It will.
I just wasn’t.
I was crooked.”
But, while speaking withABC Newsin 2015, she admitted that it was all a bit of a disaster.
Unfortunately, the final test, I received ‘athletic model,'" the star explained.
With her dreams crushed, Rancic pursued journalism instead, eventually getting hired to work for E!
“[He said,] ‘Yeah, I know.
I’m so sorry.
I don’t know what happened.’
I didn’t think that much of it.”
As he reasoned, “I don’t want to say anything negative.
She’s a very nice girl.
We had a very fun time.
It was decades ago.”
He proposed the following year, and the celebrity couple tied the knot in September 2007.
I certainly did not feel old.
I still had plenty of time to have kids.
I definitely had misconceptions about my fertility.
In many ways, I felt blindsided."
And I knew something was wrong," she said at the time (viaTMZ).
In an October 2020 essay forE!
[…] So trust me when I say I am very thankful to my doctor."
During a March 2012 interview withGlamour, Rancic discussed the recovery process, which was anything but easy.
[My husband] Bill brushed them for me.
We took baby steps."
In her October 2020 E!
But it’s like, God gives you what is right for you."
Tragically, things didn’t go to plan as Bill toldPeoplein May 2014.
“We’ve been trying to have another baby.
Unfortunately our surrogate Delphine, who we love very much, had a miscarriage.
It’s something that we didn’t see coming.
We were devastated,” he revealed.
The Rancics’ surrogate was approximately nine weeks pregnant when she experienced the miscarriage.
Bill continued, “We were pretty close to getting into the safe zone.
[…] Giuliana was rather distraught at first, but she’s tough.
In times like this we rely on our faith.
Once the tears went away we started to look towards the future.”
News during the 2015 Golden Globes, the internet was flooded with harsh criticism over her noticeably thin frame.
And they were accusing me of every eating disorder.
During her People interview, the E!
News correspondent explained that despite eating more, she was unable to put on any additional weight.
Rancic also addressed how the criticism made her feel, admitting, “It’s really hurtful.
I’m lucky that I even have the bang out of cancer that reacts to the medicine.”
She was called out for an inappropriate joke about Zendaya
E!
The comment was deemed racially insensitive at best, and Rancic came under fire.
“You know, I made a reference to the hippie culture.
I talked about patchouli oil, which is a hippie perfume.
[…] I made peace signs, I said ‘bohemian’ twice those were taken out for time.
So when the joke aired, some people were offended by it,” she said.
Giuliana Rancic received death threats
Rancic and her family soon became the target of horrifying death threats.
It was awful."
Rancic went on to acknowledge, “It was a very unfortunate incident.
I’m so regretful that people interpreted the joke [as they did].
I hurt people and I feel terrible about that.
