"What basically happens is your hormones get out of whack. Because of the stress in your life your body says, 'I need more hormones.' So, your hormones are trying to produce and produce and produce, and it's even more stressful and it is this wicked cycle"
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The intent is partly explanatory and partly permission-giving. She frames distress as a body problem as much as a willpower problem, which quietly resists the moralizing that often clings to burnout: if you're struggling, it's not because you're weak or ungrateful, it's because your system is stuck in feedback loop. The repetition "produce and produce and produce" mimics that loop, making the sentence itself feel like a treadmill. By the time she lands on "wicked cycle", the villain isn't you, it's the mechanism.
In cultural context, this sits in a late-20th/early-21st century celebrity pattern: translating emotional pain into biological terms to make it publicly legible. It can be empowering (your suffering is real, physical, treatable) and limiting (it risks shrinking complex life pressures into chemistry). Osmond walks that line with a pop-star pragmatism: tell the truth, keep it relatable, and make the invisible feel concrete enough to interrupt.
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| Topic | Stress |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Osmond, Marie. (2026, January 16). What basically happens is your hormones get out of whack. Because of the stress in your life your body says, 'I need more hormones.' So, your hormones are trying to produce and produce and produce, and it's even more stressful and it is this wicked cycle. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/what-basically-happens-is-your-hormones-get-out-93563/
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Osmond, Marie. "What basically happens is your hormones get out of whack. Because of the stress in your life your body says, 'I need more hormones.' So, your hormones are trying to produce and produce and produce, and it's even more stressful and it is this wicked cycle." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/what-basically-happens-is-your-hormones-get-out-93563/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"What basically happens is your hormones get out of whack. Because of the stress in your life your body says, 'I need more hormones.' So, your hormones are trying to produce and produce and produce, and it's even more stressful and it is this wicked cycle." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/what-basically-happens-is-your-hormones-get-out-93563/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.






