Many of Rebel's 10.4 million followers – some of whom are pretty well known – couldn’t wait to praise the actress on her incredible transformation. Mindy Kaling said that the Hustle actress was, "Beautiful!!" while radio host Brittany Hockley wrote, "Ummm ok," followed by a fire emoji. "You’re amazing," someone else commented, followed by a star emoji, while another fan wrote, "You are an inspiration!" "Amazing transformation. Good for you," wrote another IG user, while several hundreds if not thousands of the 3,000 plus comments consisted of a combination of fire, heart, and heart-eyes emojis.
Wilson was very open about her reasons to go on this health journey, revealing that she wanted to get fitter in order to improve her fertility. "I’ve been going through a fertility journey for the past two years and I’m hoping at some point I may have a family of my own," the Isn't It Romantic actress told The Daily Telegraph's Stellar magazine back in October. "But it’s still a bit unclear whether that’ll be the case. I feel like it’s not over yet. It’s kind of an emotional roller coaster. But I’ve been trying my best, so whatever will be, will be."
While we – as well as the rest of her fans and a whole host of famous faces – are super-impressed with her weight loss and overall fitness journey, Rebel confessed that her own team weren’t as supportive of her health journey as they should have been. The Bridesmaids actress said that while their comments weren’t malicious, per se, her team did worry that she would struggle to find work in the future, as she has somewhat been typecast as the "funny fat girl." Wilson told the BBC last year: "I got a lot of pushback from my own team actually here in Hollywood when I said, 'OK I'm gonna do this year of health. I feel like I'm really gonna physically transform and change my life.' And they were like, 'Why? Why would you want to do that?' Because I was earning millions of dollars being the funny fat girl and being that person."
Wilson added: "I was still very confident being bigger and you know loved myself. I would rock a red carpet and was probably double the size and sometimes triple the weight of other actresses, but like I still felt confident in that. But I knew deep down inside some of the emotional eating behaviors I was doing was not healthy. Like I did not need a tub of ice cream every night... That was me, kind of numbing emotions using food, which wasn't the healthiest thing."