MasterChef star Julie Goodwin looks different in new TV appearance

The well-known TV personality and author looked almost unrecognisable when she popped up on screens this week.

MasterChef star Julie Goodwin has stunned fans in a new TV appearance and social media video.

The TV personality and author, 54, first found fame after winning the cooking show back in 2009, beating runner-up Poh Ling-Yeow, and later returned to the franchise for the All Stars edition.

Goodwin took to Instagram this week to spruik a cooking segment on Sunrise and also share a sponsored advertisement for a cleaning product – but followers were quick to point out that she looks different.

One admitted they “almost didn’t recognise” her with others commenting she “look[ed] so different”.

Fans pointed out that Goodwin looked dramatically different in her new post. Picture: Instagram

She also popped up on Sunrise this week. Picture: Instagram

In 2016, Goodwin opened up about accidentally losing 20kgs, pointing out it was no cause for celebration.

“It’s not that I’ve gone on some stupid, sad diet and dropped a whole heap of weight in a hurry. It’s not anything like that,” she told Women’s Weekly at the time.

“I am running a business and running around like a mad thing, and sometimes I forget to eat, none of which is healthy.”

After her MasterChef win, Goodwin went on to establish a successful career as a cookbook author, columnist, and regular TV contributor, but later admitted she had struggled with her mental health amid her rising fame.

She has been in the public eye for nearly two decades.

She spoke about it on the Head Game podcast in March, describing it as going “right down to the bottom of the well”.

“I had made a decision that everybody, everybody, my colleagues, my children, my husband, my family, everybody would be better off if I just racked off and let them all be,” Goodwin said of her battle with depression and anxiety.

“I just had nothing left. It’s a sickness, right, severe depression is a serious illness,” she explained.

“The only way I could shut off my brain late at night, was to drink wine, so I was doing too much of that. So I was self-medicating, and that’s a terrible, terrible way to sleep, because you wake up with your heart hammering.”

Fortunately, as Goodwin recently told Nine Honey, she’s now doing much better – but admitted it was an ongoing effort.

“I’m good, I really am. But it’s a concentrated effort to remain good, you know.”

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