Gwyneth Paltrow’s “Shallow Hal” body double was starving to death after the movie

Ivy Snitzer, who appeared as Gwyneth Paltrow’s body double Shallow hull (2001)And He tells her story.

At 20, Snitzer was an aspiring actress and jumped at the opportunity to stand in for Paltrow, who played Rosemary and did several scenes in a fat suit. At the time, Snitzer felt her work on the film was important and would even offer a progressive outlook Body standards in the early 2000s. Speaking, she said, “At that point, if you see a fat person in a movie, they’re evil.” Interview with Amelia Tate.

It will take decades to Shallow hull to be criticized properly (like Atlantic Ocean Put it in 2021:Shallow hull Bad because it treats Rosemary’s body like a comedy. But she’s deceptive because she treats her own body as a tragedy”) And during that time, Snitzer, now 42 and an insurance agency owner in Philadelphia, had time to reflect on the film—and also how it affected her personally.

Notably, only 15 months later Shallow hull In November 2001, Snitzer underwent lap surgery

She told Tate that she thought the surgery was a “brilliant” idea. Something will be fixed [my weight]She said. While she didn’t think she cared about it herself, she revealed that it was apparently her job, as a “good fat”, to strive to be thinner.

“If you’re fat, you shouldn’t be trying not to be fat,” Snitzer said. “I hated my body, the way I was supposed to. I ate a lot of salads. I had an eating disorder, which I was proud of.”

In fact, you may not have thought of these disorders as eating disorders, but rather as doctor’s orders.

Snitzer’s doctor told her she wouldn’t make it to 40 if she didn’t have a gastric band. Once she had the operation, she got serious about losing weight as quickly as possible. The same surgery reduced the size of her stomach and restricted what she could eat, but she made an extra effort to be thin by over-exercising and cutting out and restricting calories.

“It never occurred to me that I was supposed to be ashamed of these behaviors, like so many people,” she said. “As for me, I was supposed to be proud of them” – because they were her means of achieving a perfect figure.

For many people in larger bodies, this is how eating disorders are not diagnosed or treated.

Eating disorders

Not everyone with eating disorders is built into small bodies.

Atypical anorexia nervosa describes those who have lost a significant amount of weight but are not underweight, according to Verywell Health. In fact, less than 6% of people with eating disorders are medically diagnosed as “underweight,” according to statistics from the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD).

Atypical anorexia is often misdiagnosed because people with the condition are in the normal or higher weight range. According to the ANAD, people with larger bodies are half as likely as people of “normal weight” or “underweight” to be diagnosed with an eating disorder.

as dr. Leslie A. Sim, clinical director of the Mayo Clinic Eating Disorders Program, He said todayIt’s hard for medical professionals “to see that they have an eating disorder—because we think they have to go on a diet. The doctor told them to go on a diet.” For patients, she added, “They’re doing what they’re told to do, but it’s getting out of hand.”

Snitzer, who has not directly said she has atypical anorexia nervosa, had the same response. She told Tate that she “felt like I was going to have some control over the situation that everyone was asking me to control” once she saw how severe restriction led to weight loss.

Snitzer said that “everything was different” in her sicker, younger body, than when she was in a larger body. “It was really nice to be treated so well.”

If you or someone you know has an eating disorder, please visit the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) website at nationaleatingdisorders.org for more information.