2025-09-29 – Health – www.theguardian.com
Not wanting to ‘sugar-coat the less-than-ideal things’ in her life, the former MasterChef judge says the years she rose to fame were ‘a lot about survival and not much else’
At home in Melbourne’s Carlton North, Melissa Leong is feeling apprehensive. She’s preparing to spend the day talking about her new memoir, Guts, which reveals personal struggles she has never before spoken about publicly.
“This part – laying yourself bare, so to speak, multiple times a day – is challenging,” she says. “It’s mentally challenging. It’s emotionally challenging.”
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