Portia de Rossi Talks Dropping Down to 82 Pounds | PopEater.com.

I posted this article because I remember the time when Ally Mcbeal was on the air and all the magazines and media focus on these ladies and the publicity they got for their looks. It really influenced a lot of women out there at the time. It’s so interesting that these are the things we put up on pedestals only to find out that it was a lie in many so many ways — particularly and importantly – towards health. Can you even imagine limiting yourself to 300 calories a day!!!???

This week in People Magazine, I read about Olympic Champion Amanda Beard who also struggled with an eating disorder to reach peak performance/perfection. Goes to show you –nothing you see or read about should be taken at face value. Women who seem perfect from a media perspective are NOT. No one is -no matter how much money, fame, power you have —  Just look at those Housewives — I wouldn’t trade what I have for their lives. Most of them seem really lonely and disconnected.

So next time you look at a magazine cover, watch a news program, see a story on the Internet – make sure you consider it with the knowledge that the grass is not greener for those people — it’s called Photoshop, starvation, denial — I am sure you can come up with a few choice words as well….

Portia de Rossi is a skinny lady, anyone who watched the last two seasons of ‘Arrested Development’ or has seen her on the red carpet with wife Ellen DeGeneres knows that. But back in the 1990s when she launched her career in the United States with a role on ‘Ally McBeal,’ the actress was struggling daily with anorexia, an affliction that once brought her weight down to 82 pounds.

The 5’8” actress, who currently weighs in at 168 pounds, tells ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ on Monday that her eating disorder emerged after she moved from Australia to Hollywood right before landing the ‘McBeal’ role. She says that at one point she was eating a mere 300 calories a day.