When Jennifer Aniston was asked to lose 14 kg to stay in Hollywood
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 20-09-2019
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Hollywood star Jennifer Aniston was asked to lose 30 pounds if she wanted to sustain in the showbiz. In a new book, titled Generation Friends: An Inside Look at the Show That Defined a Television Era, Saul Austerlitz said it was always tough to be a woman in the industry and match up to its impossibly high beauty standards.
"She had to lose thirty pounds if she wanted to stay in Hollywood. Los Angeles was a tough place to be an actress, it was a tough place to be a woman, and Jennifer Aniston's agent was reluctantly leveling with her," Austerlitz writes.
Aniston received a callback where she was told to wear a leotard, and she jokingly said to her agent: "This'll blow it for me."Her representative, in turn, "responded seriously".
"Aniston was hardly fat everyone could see she was beautiful but as the show she would one day become indelibly associated with later made a point of noting, the camera added 10 pounds," Austerlitz added.