Sky York Journal
Shonda Rhimes is looking back at a challenging time in her life.
About a decade ago, the founder of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal felt her lifestyle was so unhealthy that she might not survive. So, as Shonda recently told Robin Roberts, she made some positive changes, for her sake and the sake of her children, Harper, 22, Emerson, 12, and Beckett, 11.
“I really thought like I might be dead in 10 years,” the 55-year-old said at the Shonda Rhimes in Conversation with Robin Roberts: Year of Yes at 92NY event Oct. 14, per People. “That’s how bad I felt. I couldn’t put my 20-pound kid on my shoulders and run around, which I should have been able to do.”
As the producer explained, she once struggled walking up the stairs.
“At a certain point I started to feel like truly feel terrible,” Shonda noted. “I developed sleep apnea and I like woke up all the time, choking in, in my sleep. I started to feel awful and I was like, I have to do something about this.”
