Two years after it hit theaters, Snitzer said, she was “technically starving to death.”
“It was like the worst parts about being fat were magnified.”
“I hated my body the way I was supposed to,” she recalled.
Ivy Snitzer and Jack Black in 2001.Credit: 20th Century Fox
“I ate a lot of salads.
I had eating disorders that I was very proud of.”
Snitzer was a Los Angeles-based acting student when she landed the role, and had hopes of pursuing comedy.
‘Shallow Hal’.20th Century Fox
She called Black “a delightful person.”
Paltrow was “really nice” and regularly complimented her acting.
“I got really scared,” she said.
Actress Ivy Snitzer attends the premiere of ‘Shallow Hal’.Vince Bucci/Getty Images
Maybe I’ll do something else."
She continued, “Every stereotype about fat people is reinforced.
Plus-size women don’t break chairs all the time, and we aren’t compulsively eating.
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