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Welcome to People Health, a special supplement produced by the writers and editors of People. Our goal is to provide inspiring stories of individuals overcoming and coping with medical challenges—and to help you live your healthiest life. This issue features Ross Mathews, cohost of The Drew Barrymore Show, who has struggled with weight all his life. Following his mother’s death in 2020, the 45-year-old decided to change his life—and in the past four years he’s lost 80 lbs. Now he hopes to inspire others to lead healthier lives. Also in this issue: ESPN anchor—and the first woman to host the NBA draft—Malika Andrews, 29, reveals her past as a troubled teen; TV actress Yvette Nicole Brown opens up about placing her father in a board-and-care home after caring for…
With the NBA season launching into high gear, it’s safe to assume that ESPN’s Malika Andrews will be operating at full speed. Certainly if this year’s postseason schedule was any indication—when the host of ESPN’s pregame show NBA Countdown and NBA Today was at one point “in a stretch of 32 days straight on-camera. I think my eye is still twitching,” Andrews jokes as she joins a Zoom interview from her L.A. home. When she does have an hour to spare, Andrews escapes to a riding stable a short drive from the ESPN studios, “where I can exhale when things feel overwhelming.” There she saddles up Val, a 19-year-old chestnut warmblood with a white blaze and an attitude. “He’s tricky,” says Andrews, 29. “You need to be strong to…
Not long after his mother died of breast cancer in May of 2020, Ross Mathews found himself in a familiar place: turning to food for comfort. “Cooking was a love language my mother and I shared,” he says. From childhood the Drew Barrymore Show cohost has struggled with overeating and unhealthy food choices—but after he lost his mother, something changed. “I went back to the kitchen because it connected us,” he says. “And it was in the kitchen where I found my way.” Instead of burying his grief in calories, Mathews, 45, made a decision: “I realized I wanted to be on this planet as long as possible, and the thing I could control is how I wanted to live.” He began by educating himself about nutrition, putting healthy spins on…
It was about 12 years ago when Yvette Nicole Brown first noticed that the regular Sunday phone calls with her dad, Omar Qaiyim, had started to seem odd. He was “not quite there” anymore, recalls Brown, who immediately decided to move her dad from his home in Cleveland to live with her in Los Angeles. “It was the easiest decision I made,” adds the 53-year-old actress, who’s best known for her role as Shirley on the TV sitcom Community. “Because in my mind, he taught me so much. How can I not step up and be there for him in his moment of need? My dad comes first.” Not long after that, Qaiyim, now 81, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, the most common form of dementia. In the years since…
Céline Dion felt the walls closing in. As she headed to a preshow fan meet and greet, “suddenly I started to feel the corridor getting narrower and narrower,” she recalls of the scary experience that happened years ago during her second Caesars Palace concert residency, which drew more than 2 million fans during its eight-year run from 2011 to 2019. “I’m holding on to the wall, and I’m like, ‘What is happening?’” The superstar sat for a moment, assuming she had a drop in blood sugar and downed an orange juice. Then, as she has done all her life, she insisted the show must go on. “I said, ‘The people have been waiting!’” But what felt to Dion like 10 minutes actually had been two hours. “They said, ‘Céline,…
On Thanksgiving Day in 2007, Phish frontman Trey Anastasio found himself behind bars. Arrested for heroin possession and driving while intoxicated 11 months prior, the rock star had violated his probation because he’d accidentally missed a court-mandated recovery meeting while he was doing volunteer work with the homeless. “I had to go to jail,” Anastasio recalls. “It was three days and two nights, which is long enough.” When he was released, he says, “my wife was leaning on the car like Lorraine Bracco in Goodfellas,” with their young daughters by her side. “I was kind of like, ‘Did you have to take the kids out of school to see Dad coming out of jail?’ And she said, ‘If you don’t want your kids to see you coming out of…
