Amanda Seyfried Had to Lose ‘Huge, Beautiful’ Breasts to Fit In in Hollywood
Amanda Seyfried used to have a big chest — but she had to lose it so she could fit in with what Hollywood wanted.
“I looked way better when I was 15,” the actress says in an Ellen interview that airs today (Thursday). “I had huge breasts, and then I came to Hollywood and I was like ‘I got to lose weight. I got to look thin and fit,’ and I lost them a little bit.”
The 27-year-old, who voices a character in the new movie Epic, says she doesn’t miss her breasts, adding that “they were quite uncomfortable.”
Still, Amanda says, “They looked beautiful. I was feminine. I had some nice curves and I think that we should really appreciate that as opposed to trying to get rid of everything.”
Amanda has never been shy about dishing on Hollywood’s impossible standards — and how hard it can be to adhere to them. In 2011, she told Esquire she was suffering through a raw food diet.
“It’s intense,” she said. “And sort of awful. Yesterday for lunch? Spinach. Just spinach. Spinach and some seeds.”
She also told Us Weekly that she has to work out a lot to be able to enjoy food: “I work my ass off! It’s not easy,” she explained, adding that she exercises “Almost every day.”
“Seriously, when I’m not working, I’m working out. It’s not easy. I’m working out because I have to. I’m not the kind of girl who stays skinny. Plus, I like to eat sweets! I like to eat a lot.”
(I’m glad she hasn’t stayed on the spinach and seeds diet forever!)
Jennifer Lawrence has also been vocal about Hollywood’s thinness obsession.
“In Hollywood, I’m obese,” the Oscar winner told Elle in December. “I’m considered a fat actress.”
Still, she says she’ll never starve herself for a role.
“I don’t want little girls to be like, ‘Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I’m going to skip dinner’,” she says. “I was trying to get my body to look fit and strong — not thin and underfed.”
We need more actresses like Amanda and Jennifer to be honest about how hard it can be to stay thin. When actresses claim that they don’t work out or eat lots of junk food, it perpetuates an impossible standard.
