Genevieve Cortese

About Genevieve Cortese

Making her television debut as Kris Furillo, Genevieve is an experienced stage actress. She has performed in regional productions of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Crimes of the Heart" and "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat." Genevieve holds a bachelor of fine arts degree in drama and a bachelor of arts in English from the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

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The Supernatural alum revealed in April 2023 that she decided to have her breast implants removed after experiencing "some changes" in her body that didn't feel right. "I noticed that when I would get on the treadmill or I'd go outside and I would jog, I couldn't do it for more than two or three miles before my body would just be like, 'No, we're done.' That was super weird to me," she explained during an episode of the "Bathroom Chronicles" podcast. "But I was also like, 'Well, maybe I'm tired today. I have three kids, my husband, [Jared Padalecki], works like crazy hours.' I'm not even thinking it correlates."

The running fatigue wasn't her only symptom, however. "I started getting some weird pains in my joints and I would wake up with joint pain where I would like flex my fingers and they would hurt," the actress continued. "I could power through these symptoms, but it was enough where when I went to my checkup with my doctor." Her doctor told her that her lymph nodes were "really inflamed," so she decided to have the implants removed.

Since taking them out, Genevieve said she's been able to run again. "I have zero joint pain, and my brain fog [was] at a minimum. So, is it related? I feel very different," she said. "I feel like I'm in my body. My body is not inflamed. I feel normal. I feel like I can move the way I used to be able to move. So, for me, it was the right decision."