11 Actors Who Were Told They Were Too'fat'

Actors hear the f “word” too! And by the “f” word, we mean Fat! It hurts them most of the time; the people saying this are producers and directors. We compiled a list of the most famous instances when celebs were called too fat for a role.

#1 Anne hathaway

In order to prepare for 2012's Les Miserables, Anne Hathaway underwent what she refers to as "a starvation diet." For the role, she needed to drop about 25 pounds, losing 10 in three weeks before the film and the other 15 during filming

#2 Gigi hadid

Guess girl and Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Gigi Hadid was told to lose weight early on in her modeling career.

#3 Jason segel

While it's usually women who are told they need to lose weight in order to appear on film, on occasion, it happens to men. Back in 2012, Jason Segel told David Letterman that he needed to lose 35 pounds to star alongside Emily Blunt in The Five-Year Engagement, which Segel wrote.

#4 cara delevingne

The petite Brit revealed that she was told that she needed to lose weight if she wanted to get modeling contracts.

#5 Tina fey

If Tina Fey hadn't been told to lose about 30 pounds, none of us would know who she is. Not only did Fey have to drop the weight, she had to undergo a complete makeover, going from a mousy girl to becoming a "sexy [] hot-looking woman."

#6 Nia

Similar to Margaret Cho, Nia Vardalos had to lose weight in order to portray herself in a work of her own creation, the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

#7 Cho

Cho was told that she had to lose 30 pounds to be on the show, and basically play herself. Terrified of being fired from of her own show, Cho took this note to heart, to disastrous results. She wound up hospitalized due to her rapid weight loss and the diet pill addiction she developed.

#8 Margot robbie

Margot Robbie, star of The Wolf of Wall Street and Suicide Squad, was told by unnamed movie execs that if she wants to make it to the A-List, then she has to drop about 20 pounds

#9 Amy schumer

Comedian Amy Schumer got the shock of a lifetime when movie execs behind her debut film Trainwreck told her that she had to lose weight.

#10 Jennifer lawrence

Jennifer Lawrence is one of the most beautiful actresses in Hollywood, so it's mind-blowingly bonkers that anyone would tell her that she had to drop a few pounds. Yet, according to a 2013 interview with Harper's Bazaar UK, Lawrence revealed that she was told that she had to lose a certain amount of weight or face being fired from a film.

#11 Carrie fisher

Things are rough even for actresses in a galaxy far, far away, or at least that's what Carrie Fisher says. According to a 2014 interview with Daily Mail, Fisher said that the only way she was allowed to reprise her role as Princess Leia in Star Wars The Force Awakens was if she dropped an absurd amount of weight.

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