“I honestly have never been in a situation where I have to watch my weight. I just have small bones, and I just am lucky.”
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 118 | January 30, 2024 6:55 PM |
She absolutely was anorexic, I can't believe she's willing to die on that hill to this day.
I did love their little Emmys tribute, even though they should have rehearsed it more. That theme music pulls me straight back into the late '90s.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 1 | January 27, 2024 4:36 PM |
Sometimes she looked on the verge of death.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | January 27, 2024 4:37 PM |
She is indeed very petite and small boned but she was also underweight on top of it and it wasn’t because she was naturally thin.
Also I wouldn’t call it good luck to be married to an ancient grouch like Harrison. He lost his looks over 30 years ago and has age related incompetence.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | January 27, 2024 4:41 PM |
She looks great and much healthier in OP's Emmys clip.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | January 27, 2024 4:43 PM |
I didn't watch this show more than a couple episodes. Did anyone else find it annoying? I feel like the characters bugged me.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | January 27, 2024 4:47 PM |
Flockheart continued to lose weight as the show went on. Viewers noticed her weight loss and it was discussed. Ellen's wife came right out and spoke about the pressure she endured to be extra thin, Courtney Thorne Smith has said the same.
The sexy black chick had a public meltdown and had to leave the show to recover her health.
That show had many performers with health issues.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | January 27, 2024 4:55 PM |
I'm a little surprised more Ally McBeal actors weren't included. Where's Jane?
by Anonymous | reply 8 | January 27, 2024 5:03 PM |
r8 That was my first reaction as well.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | January 27, 2024 5:07 PM |
It was recorded in the 1990s, the actors wore form fitting and short dresses. The pressure was there to "look perfect".
by Anonymous | reply 10 | January 27, 2024 5:16 PM |
Gil fucked up the dance at the Emmys, twice.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | January 27, 2024 5:16 PM |
“I was NOT anorexic. I finished every leaf of my salad!”
by Anonymous | reply 12 | January 27, 2024 5:35 PM |
Ford is having a proud dad moment. Was no doubt a first, and a last for him.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | January 27, 2024 5:40 PM |
R7, David E. Kelly likes his starlets dangerously thin, including his wife.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | January 27, 2024 5:45 PM |
There aren't enough "Sure, Jans" in the entire galaxy, Calista.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | January 27, 2024 5:46 PM |
In addition to Krakowski, Courtney Thorne-Smith and Lucy Liu could have done that little shimmy as well, they're always up for a laugh. Makes me think Calista demanded to be the only woman in that tribute.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 16 | January 27, 2024 5:47 PM |
"Cindy! This is a skeleton, this is bones!"
by Anonymous | reply 17 | January 27, 2024 6:35 PM |
She was staying at the Monteleone in New Orleans one year in the 90’s during Mardi Gras when we were. I saw her a couple of times, including during an elevator ride. She IS tiny, but didn’t appear emaciated, just small.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | January 27, 2024 6:39 PM |
Don’t 90% of actresses heavily restrict their diets? That's part of why this is such whiny bullshit. Her hysteria that be labeled “anorexic” would have ruined her career. Please. It’s practically a job requirement.
Thin women whining about “body shaming” to the NYtimes is just tiresome.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | January 27, 2024 6:49 PM |
Being thin and attractive is a job requirement. But these girls had a fetish for being the very skinniest, that's different from meeting the industry requirement to be fit and attractive.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | January 27, 2024 6:55 PM |
Being super skinny seemed to be a thing in the 90s and early 2000s. I doubt it was a competitive thing, more of a trend. Actresses have gone back to a more normal weight (and then some!) in the past decade or so.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | January 27, 2024 6:57 PM |
Was just about to say, anorexia was totally a '90s thing. It's seen as off-putting today.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | January 27, 2024 6:59 PM |
Beverly from the old Ronna and Beverly podcast said she looked like a joint and that’s why Harrison Ford married her.
I despised Ally McBeal. I remember watching the dancing baby episode and never watching again. It was bizarre , without any payoff.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | January 27, 2024 7:01 PM |
Not my thing either and I watched a few times.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | January 27, 2024 7:07 PM |
R23, wasn’t the dancing baby part of a serialized storyline? The payoff probably came later than that one and only episode you deigned to watch.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | January 27, 2024 7:10 PM |
The dancing baby theme resonated with career women. Good God.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | January 27, 2024 7:18 PM |
She thinks she's lucky. Totally ana mindset to think looking like that is a good thing.
She was unremarkable looking and looked a bit like E.T.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 27 | January 27, 2024 7:26 PM |
DL about to bust this cold case wide open, Calista will come to regret yapping again about not having had anorexia, just watch.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | January 27, 2024 7:31 PM |
Can we just stop body-shaming? It's what's inside that counts.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 29 | January 27, 2024 7:34 PM |
One extreme to the next. But the big girl has an excellent team who dress her well with expertly applied makeup and hair.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | January 27, 2024 7:37 PM |
Portia is eating disordered to this day.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | January 27, 2024 7:52 PM |
Bridget Fonda was the original choice for Ally McBeal
by Anonymous | reply 33 | January 27, 2024 7:56 PM |
[quote] I just have small bones.
This is true. And we know that because we could actually see her bones sticking out. Whether or not she officially met the definition of anorexic, she clearly was unhealthily skinny. It's weird to me that 25 years later she can't admit even that.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | January 27, 2024 7:57 PM |
[quote]“I don’t think that [the anorexia accusations] would ever happen today,” she muses. “They call it body-shaming now. I haven’t thought about it in a long time…”
Bitch, you think about it twice a day when you stick your finger down your throat.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | January 27, 2024 8:07 PM |
It turns out Bridget Fonda is not naturally skinny either.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | January 27, 2024 8:10 PM |
The baby was fucking stupid.
Between the whorish outfits; Calista attempting to return to her birth weight of 7lbs 2oz; the moronic unisex bathroom; and the female characters desperate need to land on a man-ANY MAN; this show set women in the workplace back 20 years.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | January 27, 2024 8:11 PM |
She once took a celery stick to a pot luck dinner.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | January 27, 2024 8:12 PM |
The whore outfits were a 90s thing. I watch Single White Female anytime it airs on television. Fonda wears the shortest and tightest skirts imaginable. Spandex. The pressure is real.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | January 27, 2024 8:32 PM |
That period was notorious for extremely thin actresses, including Jennifer Aniston and Courtney Cox, who one would think were more secure and less pressured to conform, considering Friends ruled the airwaves
Did Calista really say “lucky” to describe being not heavy in the same article complaining of body shaming? Yeah, she’s got no issues.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | January 27, 2024 8:43 PM |
Yeah, all the Friends actresses lost weight as the show went on. Cox disappeared when she turned sideways.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | January 27, 2024 8:48 PM |
Lucky to look like a disgusting skeleton?
by Anonymous | reply 43 | January 27, 2024 8:49 PM |
The accusations were intrusive and rude but not inaccurate.
I have eyes that work, the actors continued to lose weight as the show aired.
Visibly thinner.
I don't know if it is a David Kelley production thing but Lara Flynn Boyle who was already a thin and petite body type also lost weight when she starred in The Practice.
The weight loss didn't improve their appearance and it was distracting.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | January 27, 2024 9:07 PM |
I don’t see that her story has changed one iota between then and now. All I hear her saying is, “I have no problems, and have never had any problems, except those people who are so mean at me for being lucky.”
by Anonymous | reply 46 | January 27, 2024 9:07 PM |
I would have pictured Harrison with a more earthy woman, or a voluptuous sensual woman.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | January 27, 2024 9:09 PM |
I don't know who this actor is but she is complaining about the critique she received about her physical appearance
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 48 | January 27, 2024 9:15 PM |
I seem to recall Calista was the one who really set the extra skinny trend into high gear. Jennifer and Courtney maybe started it, but neither was as tiny as Calista. Courtney started to look sickly though.
I did watch the show though for the life of me I can’t recall why I bothered. I do remember the first episode of the new season where she had clearly lost weight to the point she looked sickly. I think she had gone more blonde with her hair too which made her look washed out as well. At any rate, I was turned off by her appearance so I stopped watching. I’m not one to be self-righteously judgey about excessive thinness, but I found it distracting.
I can believe it was stress from the pressure of her sudden fame rather than anorexia but she never said anything other than just denying she had an ED.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | January 27, 2024 9:46 PM |
I remember it made the news when she passed out on the set once and they had to close up shop for the day.
[italic]Nothing to see here, folks… move it along!
by Anonymous | reply 50 | January 27, 2024 9:53 PM |
Harrison’s first wife was thin too
by Anonymous | reply 51 | January 27, 2024 10:31 PM |
Her teeth and skin complexion looked grayish near the end. Her character was known to break out dancing with energy. Near the end of the show, the character and the delivery of the actor were lifeless. Pros use the term "low vibe", these days to describe it.
Flockheart lost some hair too and there were efforts to disguise the hairloss that only made the hair loss more obvious.
If it wasn't an eating disorder, it was another health issue. But whatever it was, it was visible.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | January 27, 2024 10:47 PM |
Great memory, R50. I'd forgotten about that. And they tried to blame it on her being upset about RDJ's arrest a few weeks before. Give me a break.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 53 | January 27, 2024 11:18 PM |
R37, I remember people were saying Ally Macbeal represented the death of feminism. It was THAT bad.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | January 27, 2024 11:26 PM |
R44 that picture reminds me of why I am glad to be gay.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | January 27, 2024 11:27 PM |
This is a show that had RDJ as the male love interest for a season until he wound up in the slammer for heroin.
And people are saying Calista had a problem.
Bitches, the entire fucking cast was racked with mental, eating and drug addiction disorders. If they stood sideways and stuck out their tongues you'd think you were at a zipper factory.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | January 27, 2024 11:29 PM |
[quote]Flockhart's fainting spell occurred during the taping of this season's 12th episode, the last that Downey has signed on to appear in…
Maybe it was a serious case of cock withdrawal.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 57 | January 27, 2024 11:40 PM |
Didn't she come back years later and confirm that she had eating disorder?
by Anonymous | reply 58 | January 27, 2024 11:43 PM |
Who else remembers the icy interview with Connie Chung?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 60 | January 27, 2024 11:49 PM |
Actresses who worked with David E Kelley tended to wind up batshit and utterly disordered. Just look at Lara Flynn Boyle.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | January 27, 2024 11:51 PM |
R60, "do I seem sick to you?". LMFAO what a dumb bitch.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | January 28, 2024 12:01 AM |
No. You seem deliberately underfed. It was catching on the set, two other actors have spoken about their personal struggles at the time.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | January 28, 2024 12:04 AM |
Upsetting accusations like this can put a person off their food
by Anonymous | reply 64 | January 28, 2024 12:22 AM |
[quote]r62 “Do I seem sick to you?". LMFAO what a dumb bitch.
Serious Anne Archer vibes
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 65 | January 28, 2024 12:22 AM |
Nobody is envious of your ugly ass bony body, you dumb bitch! Your nose looks ugly and doesn't fit your face. You needed a nose job bad!
You're not lucky! You look like a fucking freak! Even if you ate more food it wouldn't do anything for your ugly ass face! You looked like you were 50 years old when you were 25!
by Anonymous | reply 66 | January 28, 2024 12:52 AM |
ROFL R66, way to work out that frustration!
by Anonymous | reply 67 | January 28, 2024 12:57 AM |
I remember seeing Calista in The Birdcage and she looked different, must be when she was more of a normal weight
by Anonymous | reply 68 | January 28, 2024 12:58 AM |
Watching Friends now it's fascinating to watch the evolution of Cox and Aniston from fit, healthy looking women in the early seasons to ridiculously thin by the middle of the series' run, this of course, also coincided with Matthew Perry's significant weight loss. Aniston's daily salad in the studio commisarry became its own news item. Kudrow has said more than once that she went on-board with the restricted diet fad of her co-stars briefly but said she got sick of always being sick (constand cold and sinus issues). I assume the waif fad in fashion in the mid-'90s influenced the movement toward hyper-skinny in Hollywood in the late 1990s. While the skinny phenomenon has dissipated for the most part, I must say that Brie Larson is distractingly thin on "Lessons in Chemistry".
by Anonymous | reply 69 | January 28, 2024 1:10 AM |
R60, great clip. Very revealing. She manages to come across as bitchy, disingenuous and quite dumb all at once.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | January 28, 2024 1:13 AM |
R60 “…are you jealous?” *giggles*
What a cunt. All was revealed in that moment.
Deflection!
by Anonymous | reply 71 | January 28, 2024 1:24 AM |
She's lucky that Connie Chung interview was before social media. If she acted that way today she'd be toast.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | January 28, 2024 1:26 AM |
R60 she smiles with her gray bulimia teeth
by Anonymous | reply 73 | January 28, 2024 1:29 AM |
R69 Brie Larson has been open about her struggles with disordered eating. I too noticed how emaciated she was in “Lessons in Chemistry” and felt badly for her - she’s clearly still going through it.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 74 | January 28, 2024 1:31 AM |
We were all on Atkins in the late 90s. Between Jennifer and Courteney, Ally McBeal and Posh Spice it was all about size zero.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | January 28, 2024 1:34 AM |
Wow, that was an annoying video
by Anonymous | reply 76 | January 28, 2024 1:35 AM |
If she ate a more she might not look so old. Like Harrison Ford gives a fuck.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 77 | January 28, 2024 1:35 AM |
I think they were aiming for the elusive triple zero clothing size
by Anonymous | reply 78 | January 28, 2024 1:36 AM |
Lisa Kudrow remarked that she “felt like a mountain” standing next to Jennifer and Courteney day after day on set.
Not coincidentally, Lisa did end up having Body Dysmorphia, which she’s been open about.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | January 28, 2024 1:38 AM |
R77 For a 60-year-old (former?) anorexic, I actually think she looks fantastic. Here she is a few days ago - very elegant.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 80 | January 28, 2024 1:40 AM |
Calista looks great and still looks like herself, no small feat in Hollywood. I will definitely watch Capote vs the Swans - looks fun.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | January 28, 2024 1:42 AM |
Jlo is a few years younger and fatter than her and looks decades younger. Fat= youthy face
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 86 | January 28, 2024 2:16 AM |
R23 I miss Ronna and Beverly! Ask Ronna And Bryan is a great podcast, but nothing will beat R&B.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | January 28, 2024 2:42 AM |
"naturally thin", I remember reading Audrey " Naturally Thin" Hepburn was observed consuming nothing more than green apples and mineral water during one filming.
Bridget Fonda was just a little bit thicker in Jackie Brown than she was in SWF and the weight gain, small as it was, shows.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | January 28, 2024 2:48 AM |
Audrey Hepburn was also starved in her youth during the Nazi occupation of Holland and at one point was reduced to using tulips for flour. She was fucked with body issues at a young age.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | January 28, 2024 3:15 AM |
Lara Flynn Boyle tried to make fun of it on SNL when she did a skit entitled, “Help, I’m a Starving Actress” but it wasn’t funny, the audience barely laughed and her delivery sucked because she was a fucking starving actress.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | January 28, 2024 3:17 AM |
I read that Bridget Fonda was supposed to be a bit more buxom in “Jackie Brown” anyway. I think she looked great as a surfer girl.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | January 28, 2024 3:18 AM |
You can just imagine her “musing” to the NYTimes writer about how it would be body shaming if anyone referenced her rampant anorexia today 🙄
Just own it and say you were under a lot of pressure back then and got too thin, now you’re happier and healthier, blah blah blah, bullshit, next question.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | January 28, 2024 3:47 AM |
The stubborn denial of starvation or an ED is like Meg Ryan refusing to admit she fucked up her face.
Bitch, it happened, we know it and you just sound stupid repeatedly denying it.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | January 28, 2024 10:47 PM |
Therew was an SNL sketch where Rachel Dratch played Calista but her body was a paper cutout.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | January 28, 2024 10:53 PM |
R94 people with eating disorders are masters of denial and will blithely lie to themselves and everyone around them. The fact that she still refuses to acknowledge it tells me that her brain is still run by her eating disorder. Bitch is still fucked up.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | January 28, 2024 11:00 PM |
Harrison Ford likes fucking a skeleton, apparently.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | January 28, 2024 11:05 PM |
My mother has an eating disorders and all I can say is that people with eating disorders lie...ALL THE TIME!
by Anonymous | reply 98 | January 29, 2024 1:09 AM |
She isn't recognizable to me as Calista Flockheart in the recent pictures posted uptrend. She had an unusual look with distinctive features, and now she looks like she could be anyone..
by Anonymous | reply 100 | January 29, 2024 3:55 AM |
I rewatched The Practice about a year ago and LFB's anorexia was shocking. It really distracted from the show.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | January 29, 2024 6:09 AM |
The pressure for actors to be thin is every bit as intense today . Jason Bateman .. many others
by Anonymous | reply 103 | January 29, 2024 8:30 AM |
If Harvey Weinstein went up on charges for abusing actresses, David E Kelley should as well. It was obvious at the time that every young actress who appeared on Ally McBeal had an eating disorder: if not when she started, then soon after. An evil man.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | January 29, 2024 1:51 PM |
[quote]I rewatched The Practice about a year ago and LFB's anorexia was shocking. It really distracted from the show.
I’m going to have to check it out to see how I react to her appearance all these years later. Back in the day everybody said she was too skinny (hence the whole SNL opening centered on that) but at the same time I’d say it got pretty normalized? I don’t recall being all that alarmed by it. But I was in my 20’s and you tend to just accept body trends at that age.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | January 29, 2024 2:47 PM |
I remember Lara Flynn Boyle doing a cameo on Ally McBeal where she tells Ally "maybe you could eat a cookie" and Ally retorting "maybe we could share it." Lara's character wasn't part of any storyline and literally just showed up so two skinny women could snark at each other for being skinny. It was fucking bizarre.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | January 29, 2024 3:57 PM |
Just watched the Ally McBeal pilot for the first time in twenty years. Incredibly sharp script right from the get-go, one of the strongest pilots I've ever seen. It does all revolve around a male crush though, so it's very much a '90s show in that regard. I did laugh when it was all just Calista in the opening credits, even when other actors' names pop up, which is a bit awkward. This changes as the series progresses, however.
Calista looks thin, but far from anorexic in her one bathroom scene where she's wearing a bra. I'll watch more episodes, I distinctly recall this becoming an issue only later on.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | January 29, 2024 5:36 PM |
R107, I don't remember the show being that good but maybe I should revisit it.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | January 29, 2024 5:42 PM |
R107 it became much more of an ensemble as the season went on, the one ong credits change about 10-12 episodes in. And you're right, she looked great in season 1. Very slim but healthy and chic. From the start of season 2 she lost lots of weight and her hair went to shit
by Anonymous | reply 109 | January 29, 2024 6:23 PM |
She had decent little A-cups in season 1 but by season two made Deb Messing look like a glamor girl
by Anonymous | reply 110 | January 29, 2024 6:26 PM |
There were numerous articles about all the main women on that show being dangerously thin. Courtney Thorne-Smith and Portia de Rossi were sticks and bones.
Portia got down to 82 pounds at one point.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 111 | January 29, 2024 6:29 PM |
I love that a few years after The Practice, Lara Flynn Boyle’s character on Las Vegas died by literally blowing away in the wind.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | January 30, 2024 4:45 AM |
I wonder how Camryn Manheim felt being the only great big fat person in David E Kelley’s sick little world.
by Anonymous | reply 113 | January 30, 2024 4:53 AM |
R113 She’s badass. I bet she’d be blast to hang out with. She comes across as so down to earth.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | January 30, 2024 5:11 AM |
Didn’t Calista admit to having an eating disorder a few years ago? I’m sure I read that.
R47 Harrison marries skinny mousy blondes but his taste in mistresses apparently runs to busty brunettes (like the gal who played his gf in Six Days Seven Nights)
by Anonymous | reply 115 | January 30, 2024 7:24 AM |
R115 I thought I’d read that as well.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | January 30, 2024 8:32 AM |
[quote] has age related incompetence.
I am not incompetent!
Once, when I laughed too hard, I had a little accident.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | January 30, 2024 12:18 PM |
R112 This deserves revisiting.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 118 | January 30, 2024 6:55 PM |
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