American Voices

Hollywood Eating Disorders

October 28, 1998 | ISSUE 34•13

Helen Hunt, Courteney Cox and Ally McBeal's Calista Flockhart are among a wave of actresses recently rumored to have eating disorders. What do you think about extreme thinness in Hollywood?

  • Helen Hunt has an eating disorder? You'd compulsively self-induce vomiting too if you had to listen to Paul Reiser whine all day."

    Dennis Pittman
    Claims Adjuster

  • It's almost as if Hollywood puts a premium on thinness and beauty.

    Teri LaCorte
    Waitress

  • It's wrong to assume a woman has an eating disorder just because she's a bit thin. She may just be in the final stages of cancer.

    David Ruhle
    Systems Analyst

  • It could be worse. They could be getting big and fat like that cow Kate Winslet.

    Larry Sambito
    Accountant

  • They're only doing it because the camera adds 75 to 80 pounds.

    Alison Howe
    Bank Teller

  • So you're saying our nation's sitcom actresses may be starving themselves to death? Now what is the problem exactly?

    Matt Sutton
    Plumber

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