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Jonah Hillis moving past his high school insecurities.
“In high school the dudes who did Jiu Jitsu used to beat the s— out of us at parties so it turned me off to it as an idea growing up. But quietly I always thought it was a beautiful art form,”he wrote on Instagram. “At 35, I try and get over the stuff that made me feel weak and insecure as a teenager. It’s just wasted time and lessons you’ll never learn. Trying to let go of that.”
Hill, whohas been consistently working outand making healthier eating choicesafter gaining weightfor his 2016 filmWar Dogs, said that he started practicing two months ago and now tries to go to Clockwork BJJ in New York City “four or five times a week.” But it hasn’t always been easy.
But after eight weeks, Hill said he earned the white belt, the first of eight levels.
“Got my first stripe today. I know it sounds corny but it’s pretty dope to jump in and do stuff you’d never think you’d be able to do,” he said.
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Hill, who recently made his directorial debut withMid-90s, based on his childhood, said in October thathe dealt with body image issuesduring those high school years and into adulthood.
“I became famous in my late teens and then spent most of my young adult life listening to people say that I was fat and gross and unattractive. And it’s only in the last four years writing and directing my movie,Mid90s,that I’ve started to understand how much that hurt and got into my head,” he posted on Instagram.
Hill later explained toEllen DeGeneresduring an appearance on her show that he spent years working toget away from that body image insecurity, much like he’s doing now with Jiu Jitsu.
“I think everybody has a version of themselves … at some point in your life the person you’re trying to kind of hide from the world,” he said. “Even if you get success or you grow up or you become good looking or whatever, the things that you think will fix the thing, you kind of carry some part of that with you … I’m under construction like we all are.”
source: people.com
