Damn You, McBeal
Portia De Rossi says the influence of her castmates on Ally McBeal may have contributed to her anorexia:
"The actress hit her lowest point in 1999, when she starved herself down to a life-threatening 82 pounds. She reveals in the April issue of Vogue magazine, 'I've often wondered if I wasn't on that show if it (anorexia) may not have happened. I didn't really know at that point what it was like to be a celebrity, and the only people I knew at the time who had a similar experience were these women whom I worked with. They became my role models.'"
Portia De Rossi is fabulous in many ways, not just because she's dating Ellen DeGeneres (they should change their last name to De). When she first joined the cast of Ally McBeal I actually watched that show, and thought she was incredibly sexy and gorgeous. Then she got horribly skinny and the show got horribly annoying. Then she was on Arrested Development, a show that rules. I know she changed her name from "Amanda" something to "Portia De Rossi" and that's kind of pretentious, but I still love her and would put her on my celebrity sex exemption list. When she's got some meat on her bones.
The most interesting part of the article is that she is referring to the other women in the cast as "role models." I wonder what exactly that means. I think Courtney Thorne-Smith admitted to being told to lose weight and developing an eating disorder on that show, but Lisa Nicole Carson was always curvy, and Lucy Liu has always seemed skinny in a normal way to me. Obviously Calista Flockhart looks like an oversized olive on a toothpick, but I wonder if "role model" means she was exhibiting anorexic behavior, or if her mere figure was the model?
Anyway, link from IMDB news.
"The actress hit her lowest point in 1999, when she starved herself down to a life-threatening 82 pounds. She reveals in the April issue of Vogue magazine, 'I've often wondered if I wasn't on that show if it (anorexia) may not have happened. I didn't really know at that point what it was like to be a celebrity, and the only people I knew at the time who had a similar experience were these women whom I worked with. They became my role models.'"
Portia De Rossi is fabulous in many ways, not just because she's dating Ellen DeGeneres (they should change their last name to De). When she first joined the cast of Ally McBeal I actually watched that show, and thought she was incredibly sexy and gorgeous. Then she got horribly skinny and the show got horribly annoying. Then she was on Arrested Development, a show that rules. I know she changed her name from "Amanda" something to "Portia De Rossi" and that's kind of pretentious, but I still love her and would put her on my celebrity sex exemption list. When she's got some meat on her bones.
The most interesting part of the article is that she is referring to the other women in the cast as "role models." I wonder what exactly that means. I think Courtney Thorne-Smith admitted to being told to lose weight and developing an eating disorder on that show, but Lisa Nicole Carson was always curvy, and Lucy Liu has always seemed skinny in a normal way to me. Obviously Calista Flockhart looks like an oversized olive on a toothpick, but I wonder if "role model" means she was exhibiting anorexic behavior, or if her mere figure was the model?
Anyway, link from IMDB news.
posted by mo pie at 2:50 PM
3 Comments:
I love Portia DeRossi too! Especially because of Arrested Development. She's still wicked skinny.
I agree with you about Ally McBeal - that show went from cute to too self-aware to lame. All the women got skinnier and more neurotic, too, but what killed me was when Billy dyed his hair blonde. After that, I just couldn't give a crap.
I'm happy to see Calista Flockhart as put on a little weight -- she is also still what I would call skinny but at least it looks like she could withstand a strong wind without ending up in Oz.
Did you notice that every woman on that show got skinnier to match Calista as time wore on? Even Elaine (can't think of the actress's name). She was very shapely during most fo the show, but toward the end she had definitely lost a bunch of weight. Peer pressure never dies, I suppose.
I recall reading that Vogue interview with De Rossi in which she really seemed "over" the disorder.
But I am currently renting the 2nd season of Arrested Development (great show) and she appears thinner than in the first - verging on anorexic-thin. A reminder, I guess, of how tough this thing is to beat - as I have been battling it for over a decade.
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