Award winning actress Candice Bergen opens up about her changing body image in her new memoir, declaring herself to be fat and proudly at that.
"Let me just come right out and say it: I am fat," the Murphy Brown and Boston Legal star writes in A Fine Romance, excerpted by The New York Post.
"In the past 15 years, I have put on 30 pounds. I live to eat. None of this ‘eat to live’ stuff for me. I am a champion eater," Bergen says, with aplomb.
"No carb is safe … no fat, either," Candice jokes, and we can certainly relate.
The Oscar- and Emmy-nominated actress compared her own eating habits to friends and contemporaries who go overboard to maintain trim figures:
"[Thin women] maintain their weight by routinely vomiting after major meals consisting of a slice of steak or a filet of fish," she says. "I am incapable of this."
"At a recent dinner party I shared bread and olive oil, followed by chocolate ice cream … A woman near me looked appalled, and I thought, ‘I don’t care’."
"Dieting is out of my purview. I crave cookies … the things that dilate my pupils."
The prolific star, now 68, has been equally outspoken about her desire to embrace aging, and says she celebrates her life and its natural progression.
"People complain about parts for women, people complain about getting old," Bergen said. "It’s a privilege to get old. The reality is that I don’t look like I used to look."
"I just don’t care enough, and in a way that’s saved me."
It’s a refreshingly candid take on life that makes you think, doesn’t it? What does it all mean? Would we all be happier, and healthier, with Candice’s outlook?
