I Hate Seeing Myself On Stage: Star Wars Sex Symbol Carrie Fisher On Her Weight Gain

DailyMail(UK) ^ | October 01st 2009

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I Hate Seeing Myself On Stage: Star Wars Sex Symbol Carrie Fisher On Her Weight Gain [Pics in URL]

Daily Mail Reporter 01st October 2009

At the tender age of 19 Carrie Fisher became a worldwide sex symbol with her iconic role as Princess Leia in Star Wars.

But at the age of 52 her weight gain has left her unable to look at film of herself on stage.

Fisher spoke out after her successful one-woman show Wishful Drinking opened on Broadway.

[Captain Peter Blood]

I still don't mind watching the early Star Wars pictures, it's the last three that after one viewing I can't look at again, they were terribly written and directed.
Lucas is talented in a number of ways but as a director and writer he really is bad.

[PeteB570]

taillightchaser;

You are young Grasshopper.

With age will come wisdom.

[Tainan]

Yep..that one works for me...8)

[Slings and Arrows]

I wonder if she’s on steroids? She has that puffy look.

[Lizavetta]

In February 2009:

[Ramius]

Women in their 50’s tend not to be as sexy as they are in their 20’s. Same as with men, of course. Age and metabolism changes are cruel, but they’re part of life.

But that Princess Leah-as-slave-girl costume of hers will live on for centuries.

[Lizavetta]

I'm sorry, I don't buy the metabolism thing as an excuse for getting fat. You adjust, just as you adjust when you exercise less and become more sedentary as you get older.

I'm almost 46 and after being 25+ pounds overweight my entire life am now mid 130s and look great because I got off my ass and ate less. And I'm the laziest do-nothing on the planet - it was not an easy thing to do.

If she's fat it's because she's eating more than she's burning off. And it's in her power to change that.

[Billthedrill]

She's 52, she isn't dead. If she wants to do something about it she can.

I'd lose the glitter, though. Without it - #45, and thanks, Lizavetta - she looks like a real human being who you could actually talk to. And that'd be all right, because she's got some great stories and somebody should.

[Ramius]

If she's fat it's because she's eating more than she's burning off. And it's in her power to change that.

Oh, yes, you're right of course. I was just speaking from my own experience. All my life I never carried any excess weight. I ate all the worst stuff, and never gained a pound. I didn't really "excercise" much, other than the usual activity that everbody does every day. But it never seemed to affect me. Then I turned 40. Over the next couple or few years... things started to turn different. Sure, I had some bad habits... but they had cost me nothing up to then... suddenly those habits started making a difference. The worst part was that then getting smart and cutting back on the calories and carbs only slowed the onset of excess weight and didn't cut it back any anymore. Nowadays... I have to stay on a fairly extreme low-carb, low-calorie diet just to keep from gaining any more. Bodies at different ages have very different chemistry. That's just true.

[Christian4Bush]

If she's fat it's because she's eating more than she's burning off. And it's in her power to change that.

Hell, if Rush Limbaugh could drop all the weight he has, and he's older than Carrie is, she can do it...if she wants to.

As for hot or not - definitely "not guilty" in all three movies. Amazing to read the backstory of the infamous ROTJ costume...apparently many instances of "wardrobe malfunctions" including exposed cat...

[numberonepal]

Portman doesn’t do it for me. She’s OK hot, but too skinny and boyish looking.

[aruanan]

Bodies at different ages have very different chemistry. That's just true.

Well, the chemistry is the same, but energy regulation goes awry for reasons incompletely understood. Younger people, especially guys, will spontaneously gain or lose weight to get back to their normal, pre-experimental weight within a relatively short time if they undergo a prolonged period of overfeeding or deprivation. Older men, especially elderly men, for some reason are not able to do this. Most people who have gained 15 to 30 pounds over their young 30's weight by the time they get to their 40's and 50's have done so by about 100 or so kcal excess daily that is too small for the body to sense and regulate. Though it's more able to do so with an adequate amount of habitual physical activity (and not running mile and miles, just moderate activity at the level of brisk walking for about 20 minutes 3 or 4 times a week). This is said from the perspective of a Ph.D. in Human Nutrition/Nutritional Biology whose first thesis subject was going to be mobilization and replenishment of intramuscular fat in response to exercise though it ended up being in molecular neurobiology.

[Huck]

I find the casting to be probably the biggest problem. There were a few winners—James Earl Jones are the voice of Vader. Alec Guiness as Obi Wan. But why does he have to fill up the movies with so many gratingly annoying people/characters? I wish someone had killed Luke. Same with Leia. Hell, same with Ford’s character, can’t think of his name right now. Ewoks. Jar Jar. That princess in the newer ones with the wooden monotone voice. Great movies if you’re under 12 yrs old, I guess. But otherwise, unwatchable.