In a revelation that ranks up there with "Liberace was gay," Calista Flockhart — who convincingly portrayed a popsicle stick-turned-hallucinating lawyer on her late-'90s dramedy hit Ally McBeal — has finally admitted she had an eating disorder at the time.
Flockhart, 41, who now lives with boyfriend Harrison Ford, 63 (at what age do you become a "manfriend"?), revealed in an interview with UK tab The Mirror that, "I was seriously stressed. I was working 15-hour days on the set and then I was dealing with the end of the show, which was basically my life. I started undereating, overexercising, pushing myself too hard and brutalizing my immune system. I guess I just didn't find the time to eat. I am much more healthy these days."
At the time she denied eating issues and blamed her 90-something lbs. "weight" — stretched like a kite across her 5'5" frame — on "tiny bones."
Her waifishness was adressed coyly on the show: in one scene she and similarly trim guest star Lara Flynn Boyle exchanged jibes about needing a "cookie" and a "sandwich" respectively as they passed in an elevator.
Interestingly, just a few days ago Harry Potter author J.K Rowling railed against "empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clone" celebrities on her website, adding, "Their only function appears to be supporting the trade in overpriced handbags and rat-sized dogs."
Article comments
1 - Dawn
Oh, hey are we on the zeitgeist or what - where's my article??
2 - Eric Olsen
yes, rather similar theme! It's here
3 - Eric Berlin
My friends and I thought it hilarious, growing up, for someone to die because they forgot to eat. Maybe not so funny...
4 - Eric Olsen
it shows what the brain can do to the body
5 - Matthew Milam
We pick on the fat folks in this country, and yet the very people everyone flocks to are falling apart without people noticing. Amazing.
6 - Eric Olsen
you're right Matthew: they're imploding rather than exploding
7 - sal m
wait...liberace was gay?!? i didn't see that one coming... if i find out barry bonds used steroids i might not make it through another day...
8 - Eric Olsen
it was one of those ex post facto things
9 - Matthew T. Sussman
Breaking news: Pete Rose bet on baseball
10 - Eric Olsen
everyone who has hit more than 61 home runs in a season was cheating