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Lauren Young opens up about financial, weight, career issues

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MANILA – “No excuses.”This was the ultimate message of Lauren Young in her latest vlog entry where she opened up about the struggles she recently faced and her journey to becoming happier. At the beginning of the video, Young admitted that there was a time she thought she was at the peak of her career.“Akala ko sobrang perfect na ng buhay ko, &#x27;yun pala hindi,” she said.<figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6MYdH91DZgg?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>She had a career, she had a show but it was brought to her attention that she’s been someone that people don’t like to work with.“I thought I was being funny but actually, I was being such a brat on set. I was being a diva. I thought I had the right to ask for certain things and treat people a certain way just because I was the actor on set. I was always making reklamo, I was always bitching. I was always demanding and judgmental towards my peers that I realized I was the negative person on the set,” she said.Young said that’s when she decided to change her ways.“I showed up on set on time. I was nicer towards my peers. I focused more on my skills than judging others and I decided to not be a bitch. I noticed that my environment changed and even though I was shooting 30 hours a day, it was so much better and it felt so much better just because I decided to not change the system but because I decided to change myself,” she said.Aside from work issues, Young also had monetary problems.“I thought I had all the money in the world,” Young said, mentioning how she bought a condo and a car for herself only to be left in debt because they’re all mortgaged.“I realized I was purchasing these things not because I needed them or wanted them but it was mostly out of jealousy,” she said.With the help of her sister Megan, Young addressed this problem by letting go of the things she thought she needed.“I am just really letting go of things that I don’t need and things that are not bringing me joy but are actually bringing me pain. They are dragging me down. I used to think that they symbolize a status. But it was actually just symbolizing greed and that’s something I didn’t want,” she said. And then she dealt with her health issues.Explaining why she gained so much weight, Young said she kept on binge drinking and eating because she wasn’t happy in life.“I couldn’t beat myself up physically. I couldn’t beat myself up with words so I decided to beat myself up by going out and being surrounded by people that didn’t matter and it was causing so much pain on me that I felt like I deserve that pain. In the process I gained a lot of weight,” she said.As if her problems weren’t enough, Young also had family issues. All the while, Young thought she had a great relationship with her sister but as it turned out, they barely know each other.Despite all these trials, Young said she’s learned to accept that there should be no excuses in resolving them.“Even if you know that you can always land on someone to help you, you can only help yourself. Whether you’re going through body issues, monetary issues, self-love issues or anything in life, just deal with it and no excuses,” she said.In the end, Young feels so much happier even though she doesn’t have much materially.

“Akala ko sobrang perfect na ng buhay ko, 'yun pala hindi,” she said.