Ivy Snitzer, who served as Gwyneth Paltrow’s body double in the 2001 comedy “Shallow Hal”, is speaking about how she later developed a serious eating disorder.
Interviewed by The Guardian, Snitzer — who has just 20 when she worked on the film, said she felt “really comfortable” while making the film, with her body filmed in scenes in which Paltrow — who wore a padded bodysuit and prosthetics — didn’t show her face.
However, just two years after her experience on the film, she began “technically starving to death,” which she attributes to the movie itself.
“It didn’t occur to me that the film would be seen by millions of people,” she explained. “It was like the worst parts about being fat were magnified.”
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Interviewed by The Guardian, Snitzer — who has just 20 when she worked on the film, said she felt “really comfortable” while making the film, with her body filmed in scenes in which Paltrow — who wore a padded bodysuit and prosthetics — didn’t show her face.
However, just two years after her experience on the film, she began “technically starving to death,” which she attributes to the movie itself.
“It didn’t occur to me that the film would be seen by millions of people,” she explained. “It was like the worst parts about being fat were magnified.”
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According to Snitzer, she would be harassed on the...
- 8/23/2023
- by Brent Furdyk
- ET Canada
Ivy Snitzer can’t remember how the casting call for 2001’s “Shallow Hal” described the role of Gwyneth Paltrow’s body double, but she does remember getting the job within an hour. While the initial experience of filming was great, Snitzer has now revealed to The Guardian that she almost died from an eating disorder in the years that followed.
Snitzer told the outlet that she felt “really comfortable” while filming the movie, but once it came out in 2001 “it was like the worst parts about being fat were magnified. And no one was telling me I was funny.” One person mailed her diet pills and casting agents were only sending her roles about women who were “so ugly and lonely” that they “molested young boys.”
The actress was nearly starving to death not even two years after “Shallow Hal” came out. She underwent gastric bypass surgery but the band...
Snitzer told the outlet that she felt “really comfortable” while filming the movie, but once it came out in 2001 “it was like the worst parts about being fat were magnified. And no one was telling me I was funny.” One person mailed her diet pills and casting agents were only sending her roles about women who were “so ugly and lonely” that they “molested young boys.”
The actress was nearly starving to death not even two years after “Shallow Hal” came out. She underwent gastric bypass surgery but the band...
- 8/23/2023
- by Stephanie Kaloi
- The Wrap
When Paltrow put on a fat suit for the Farrelly brothers’ blockbuster, an unknown acting student was hired as her body double. Two years later, Ivy Snitzer was starving to death
Ivy Snitzer has screen presence – even on Zoom – with her safety pin earrings, nose piercing and reddish-purpleish hair. Yet no one saw her face in the hit film. Now 42, and an insurance agency owner in Philadelphia, Snitzer was Gwyneth Paltrow’s body double for the role of Rosemary in 2001’s Shallow Hal. While Paltrow wore a fat suit for scenes featuring her face, Snitzer’s body was used for closeups of Rosemary’s arms, torso and thighs.
At the time, 20-year-old Snitzer was a Los Angeles-based acting student with aspirations to become an actor or comedian. “Mostly, I just wanted to be funny,” she says. One day, a friend from her improv class called her up because he had...
Ivy Snitzer has screen presence – even on Zoom – with her safety pin earrings, nose piercing and reddish-purpleish hair. Yet no one saw her face in the hit film. Now 42, and an insurance agency owner in Philadelphia, Snitzer was Gwyneth Paltrow’s body double for the role of Rosemary in 2001’s Shallow Hal. While Paltrow wore a fat suit for scenes featuring her face, Snitzer’s body was used for closeups of Rosemary’s arms, torso and thighs.
At the time, 20-year-old Snitzer was a Los Angeles-based acting student with aspirations to become an actor or comedian. “Mostly, I just wanted to be funny,” she says. One day, a friend from her improv class called her up because he had...
- 8/22/2023
- by Amelia Tait
- The Guardian - Film News
Ivy Snitzer, the woman who played Gwyneth Paltrow‘s plus-size body double in the TV staple 2001 movie Shallow Hal, has revealed how weight loss surgery left her “starving to death” following the film’s release. Speaking to Amelia Tait for a TinyLetter.com post, Snitzer opened up about her time working on the romantic comedy, which starred Jack Black as a superficial man who falls in love with a 300-pound woman after being hypnotized into only seeing a person’s inner beauty. While the film was criticized for being “fatphobic,” Snitzer described it as “progressive” for the time. “At that point, if you saw someone obese in a movie, they were a villain,” said Snitzer, who was a 20-year-old aspiring actress and comedian when she landed the part. “Whereas [Paltrow’s character] Rosemary was cool, she was popular, she had friends.” Vince Bucci/Getty Images Snitzer also spoke positively about her time on set,...
- 8/18/2023
- TV Insider
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