Renee Zellweger Won’t Gain Weight for Bridget Jones 3
… and instead, she wants a fat suit. Here are the details from NY Daily News:
Renee Zellweger famously packed on the pounds to play “Bridget Jones,” but she’ll be faking the fat for the third installment of the popular film franchise, according to a report.
“Renee will be wearing a fat suit in the third film, as it took her a while to lose the weight last time,” a source revealed to British magazine Reveal. “She’s also thinking about the effect quickly putting on and then losing 30 pounds has on her body.”
While some fans and bloggers are worried Zellweger’s portrayal of “Bridget Jones” will be less authentic the third go-round if she dons a fat suit, the actress has voiced concern over gaining weight for the famous role in the past.
“My body is whacked by the time we finish one of those ['Bridget Jones' movies],” Zellweger told the Daily Mail in December 2007.
She went on to tell the Mail how the 2004 fast-food documentary “Supersize Me” scared her.
“I had a panic attack with all the specialists talking about how bad this is for you, long term, putting on that much weight in short periods of time and they’re all saying, ‘You must stop this now or you’re going to die.
I’m sorry but for me it it just sounds that she’s so obsessed with being skinny now a days that she is actually scared of getting fatter and not just because of “Supersize me”….
Yeah, I got that feeling too…
I don’t think so at all. People always talk about the negative effects of loosing weight too fast, but how about gaining it quickly? Do you know how much calories you have to eat per week to gain a pound, ESPECIALLY if your body resists it?
I’m naturally thin and one time I tried to gain weight by eating a lot of calories. The only way to do that is to eat stuff that has a lot of calories and fat, which is usually very unhealthy (You can’t eat 3000 calories worth of healthy food in a day, especially if your appetite is lower, like mine).
I did gain 10 pounds, but soon enough I couldn’t go up a flight of stairs without getting out of breath, I started to get dizzy. I just felt so awful. So I said eff it and started eating healthy, and adding 1-2 unhealthy foods to boost caloric intake. I lost 8 pounds, but at least I won’t have a heart attack at 30.
Good for her for caring about her health, no matter whether or not people are telling her she should weigh more, as if they know her and are her doctors.
ditto
She gained way to much for the second movie, that’s probably why she had a hard time losing it.
forget about gaining weight for a movie, she should gain some weight for the sake of her health. She looks sickly!
Really? You think THAT’S sickly?
I think she’s at her optimal body weight, and shouldn’t go higher or lower. She probably takes really good care of her health, not her looks. If she did, she would have gone even thinner to look slim, not normal. She looks normal right now.
agree, her face always look fugly when she is this small. maybe, and that seems like a big maybe, this is her natural size, but she look better with more weight.
I agree, I think she looks so much more beautiful when she has more weight on. I think her face always looks so haggard when she is this skinny. She was perfect when she play Bridget in the first movie, and it is weird that she was supposed to be playing a heavy-ish person. Hello, she looked way hot in that bunny suit!
i dont think she was supposed to neccesarily be a big person, but someone who was a bit flabby, wanted to lose a few pounds and was just completely awkward. I agree, she looked hot it the bunny suit but she had piled on that weight quickly for the movie and i dont neccesarily think she looked better at that size, even though i would normally prefer someone who was a sz 10 over a 0, i just don’t think thats her natural build. She’d look fabulous somewhere in between
Does anyone remember her in Empire Records or Jerry Maguire? She probably weighed a bit more then, but looked a lot healthier and just *brighter*.
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/071119/empire_l.jpg
Before the pressures of Hollywood and mass media took over!
she looks really good there!!
She was a fair bit younger there though..
how old is Renee? i know my mum (whos probably 10 years older than Renee) is slimmer now than she was and she doesnt do that much different!
Good for her! I’m glad that she’s taking a stand. I know that she’s paid millions of dollars and it’s her job BUT her health is more important. It’s not natural to gain such large amounts of weight and then weigh 100 lbs and exercise 4 hours a day. I agree that she has an obsession with her weight but I think it’s better for her to just stay where she is weight wise.
agreed. she’d want to lose the weight anyways so better for her not to yo-yo so drastically, it might get quite dangerous for her.
I agree also. It’s gotta be bad for her body, skin, and health to gain weight like that and loose it again. I’m sure she might still have a little stretched skin from last time she did the role. Good for her at wanted to respect her health.
actually i agree.. i couldnt do it over and over again just for a movie. that is so emotionally draining. it messes with the body to yoyo like that. id do the fat suit otherwise she could do longterm damage to her metabolism and skin elasticity. good choice renee
Exactly! I can’t believe actors and actresses will do that to themselves. It does mess up your body permanently. It sucks if you have always been disciplined and kept yourself healthy in reality especially.
binge eating, followed by a crazy exercise schedule of having to work out 4 hours a day sounds insane and scary to be honest. money can never buy health and happiness, i’m glad renee made the choice she did
I agree with Rene. I think she’s making the right choice. Her health is more important.
Playing with weight is, in general, a hazardous thing for one’s health. I know what I’m talking about. So if her doctors told her not to gain weight, there’s a good reason and yes, she took the right decision. I understand her concern about saying goodbye to the slim figure she strove to get back. I would have refused too if I had to gain some many pounds again.
Btw, her legs are so NICE
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I’ve been obese before, wearing a size 22, and losing all that weight to get to a healthy size 4-6 was HARD!! and if I were in Renee’s shoes I would have never had the guts to actually PUT ON over 10 pounds of weight for something, no matter how much I’m getting paid to do it. For most of us girls who aren’t blessed with speedy metabolisms, gaining weight is the easy part, losing it all off is where it gets HARD. So good for her for saying NO to unhealthy weight gain.
Having said all that, she does look a little thin and her face looked better when she was a little thicker, BUT even if she wanted to gain weight for herself, gaining more than 10 pounds is just too much! If she’s good and healthy at where she is right now, then she shouldn’t have to change just to fit into a movie role, money isn’t the most important thing in the world.
Same here! I used to be a size 18, now I’m a 6, and I’d never ever let myself gain that back. Not after all of the nights when I passed on cookies and cheesecake, all of that hard work and self control would go down the drain. And I have hypothyrpoid disorder so putting on weight for me is effortless, whereas taking it off and maintaining is very, very difficult.
I wouldn’t do it if I were Renee, either. It’s unhealthy and really not worth it to me. Not to mention that the more you gain and lose weight, the less elasticity your skin has so there’s a higher chance that she’d end up with loose skin once she loses it all again.
The emotional and physical side effects of gaining that much then the pressure of losing it all quickly have to be immense.
I still think she could stand for a few extra pounds in general though, she still has that lollipop thing going on. Healthy gaining though, not pigging out on doughnuts and eating terribly fatty foods to gain 30lbs in the shortest amount of time possible.
instead of the fat suit, i think they should just find a woman who is that size to play the role, which is what they should have done in the first place.
What the F#@k, she looks like death walking. I dont under stand American women, why do you want to look like 13, and 14 year old boys. Real women have curvys.
And says who? So women who were born with a narrow hip structure or ruler shapes, or any other shape besides an hourglass are not “real women”? Hate to break it to you, but thank God that not many people share your view, and most importantly, men don’t share your view. Also, curves have nothing to do with weight, as you’re impying. You can be a size 1-2 and still have curves and you can be a size 14 and not have curves.
And if you think that’s death walking, then boy, you really have some animosity towards slim people. I’m sad for you that you can’t appreciate women in a range of sizes because it may threaten your self esteem.
you are right…curves (having round hips, butt and boobs) don’t have much to do with weight…most of the time it’s just bone structure and some women (actually only a minority of them) are just genetically lucky to have their fat stored in the butt and boobs (when they gain weight they are seen as curvy) rather than the love handles or waist or saddle bags like most of us (when ruler/T-shaped girls gain weight, we are just ‘fat’
). Sometimes I wonder if it’s worse to promote the ‘curvy’ hourglass figure ala Kim K or if it’s worse to promote boyish type ultra-skinny figures…both body types are actually quite rare and the first (big boobs + tiny waist + wide hips) is even more impossible to achieve if you don’t have that kind of bone structure to begin with… according to a research roughly only 8% of western women qualify as hourglass types while the most common body type among women is the ruler shaped figure.
i 2 think she’s just obsessed with her skinny body at the moment.
dear renee, maybe you don’t know that being a little heavier like you were in BJ 1 and 2 is no more harmful for your health than being the underweight lollipop that you are in real life. the key-word is balance.
not to mention the harms to be done to the public image of women by displaying them as weight-obsessed and larmoyant on and off-screen.
I honestly thought she was cute in the first Bridget Jones! Some said she was chubby.. but I think she looked like a normal woman.
She shouldn’t play the part, if she is not willing to become “bridgett jones”. Honestly though they should stop.. how many times can she go through the same weight struggle and lose love, and find love?