De Rossi Blames 'Ally McBeal' for Eating Disorder

De Rossi Blames 'Ally McBeal' for Eating Disorder

Actress Portia De Rossi developed anorexia while starring in "Ally McBeal,"
because she used co-star Calista Flockhart and the other thin women on the
show as her role models.

The actress hit her lowest point in 1999, when she starved herself down to a
life-threatening 82 pounds.

steele...

I don't recall her ever being *that* thin, but I'm probably wrong.

I realise eating disorders are serious and I hope I'm not taken the
wrong way, but she needs to grow up and take responsibility for her own
actions. I can't stand people who blame their parents, bosses, spouses,
society, the media, etc. for their problems. It's *always* someone
else's fault.

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."

The actress decided to come clean about her anorexia with the help of her
girlfriend, talk show host Ellen DeGeneres.

She adds, "We've talked a lot about this. I'm not proud of this struggle.

"(While anorexic) it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And

preesi...

Oh no.. shes gonna start blabbing all the time now...

now I would like to reappear."

Agent Smith...

Look at the footage she posed for in "Sirens," and then look at the
photos she posed for before Ally McBeal, and you'll see that she was
anorexic well before she made that tv show. It's jusy that her anorexia
got severely worse on the show, because the girls were all goading each
other to eat less.