While Josh Peck felt comfortable in front of the camera and making hordes of Nickelodeon fans laugh as Josh Nichols on “Drake and Josh,” he did not feel like that offscreen. Reflecting on that time in his memoir, Peck said (via Parade): “I was getting to perform my favorite kind of comedy on a network I dreamed of being on, but on the other hand I was introducing myself to the world in a body I didn’t want to be [in].”
In reality, he was struggling with his weight and appearance more than ever. Peck’s food addiction played a part as he would eat to distract himself from his own emotional state and then be caught in a repetitive, unhealthy cycle. Later, Peck admitted on “About Last Night” that during those years he often didn’t feel comfortable in his own skin.
As a result, Peck said that he felt he missed out on an important part of his life. “At 17, which is when I started losing weight, I was like ‘oh, you missed it,’ like, ‘you kind of lost out on a good part of your teenage years,'” Peck explained. He added that starring on “Drake and Josh” afforded him plenty of opportunities to socialize, go to parties and experience typical teenage life, but that he would often exclude himself because of how he was feeling. “I just wouldn’t allow myself because I wasn’t comfortable,” he admitted.
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