The Dishing Diva

Eat, Pray, Love star Julia Roberts has revealed that she gained 10 pounds while shooting the flick.

Roberts, 42, plays Elizabeth Gilbert, a woman who travels the world on a journey of self-discovery following a painful divorce.

One of the destinations her character visits in the film is Italy, where she eats a lot of food.

When asked if she gained weight after filming on location in Italy, Roberts told Entertainment Weekly magazine: “You know, we talked about that because I didn’t want people to say, ‘Well, she’s supposed to go to Italy and eat all this food, but she looks the same in the whole thing’.

“So I talked to [director] Ryan [Murphy] about it.”

The Pretty Woman star added: “And he said, ‘By the time Liz got to Italy, she was so underweight that the weight she put on really got her back to normal and then a little bit more’.

“It wasn’t like she [became] a tub, so because I started at normal weight for me, by the time we left Rome and I was seven to 10 pounds heavier, that was probably the truth of what she was dealing with.”

She also revealed that while she was filming in Naples, Italy, she ate copious amounts of pizza.

She said: “When we were in Naples, we started shooting at 8am in the morning, and I think by 8.45 I’d eaten eight or 10 pieces of pizza.”

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Kyra Sedgwick has opened up about her 25-year struggle with body image.

“Food has never been easy for me,” the actress explained.

Losing 20 pounds to play a Holocaust victim in’85′s War and Love instigated the beginning of her troubled relationship with her weight, she said.

“I came back from that, and it triggered something,” Sedgwick told More magazine.

“I ate everything in sight. My weight went up and then too far down.”

The Closer star says that getting rid of her scales helped her make peace with her body.

I’m so grateful that I don’t get on a scale because it’s never going to be the right number,” the 44-year-old said.

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My Name Is Earl actress Jaime Pressly has revealed that she once went on a crash diet and ate eight bananas in one day, in a bid to lose her pregnancy weight in time for her 30th birthday.

In an interview with Health magazine, Pressly, now 32, who has a two-year-old son Dezi James, said it took her just three months to lose the 42lbs she gained during her pregnancy.

She told the US magazine: “But I lost the first 32lbs by my 30th birthday, which we celebrated in Vegas. We had pool parties and I was not about to be chunky.”

She added: “I did the cabbage soup diet twice in a row. It lasts six days and you eat cabbage soup three to four times a day.

“But one day, you can also eat up to eight bananas.”

The North Carolina-born actress, who gave birth to baby Dezi on 11 May 2007, and turned 30 two months later on 30 July, revealed she blitzed the remaining pounds with gruelling work-outs with her personal trainer.

She said: “I get bored easily, so my trainer, Mike Jones, introduced me to the [suspension training system] TRX… You use your body weight for resistance.

“We also do abs, plus 150 to 200 squats… I enjoy feeling the burn and pushing myself.”

Asked whose body she most admires, Pressly said: “When I think of legs, I always think of Shirley MacLaine… She’s always been one of my idols because she’s funny, sassy, ballsy, smart, spiritual.”

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The Biggest Loser trainer Jillian Michaels has confessed she fears how having a baby would change her famous physique.

“I can’t handle doing that to my body,” Michaels said in an interview with Women’s Health, Hollywood Life reports.

The 36-year-old trainer is renowned for her tough approach to fitness and diet when it comes to whipping contestants on The Biggest Loser into better shape.

But that doesn’t mean the host of NBC’s new show Losing It With Jillian does not want to have children, adding “I’m going to adopt”.

“Also, when you rescue something, it’s like rescuing a part of yourself,” she said.

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