Melissa McCarthy: I'd Love to Be "Emaciated"
Plus-sized confessions!
Melissa McCarthy became a bonafide star over the past 12 months thanks to her scene-stealing turn in Bridesmaids and her hit CBS sitcom Mike and Molly.
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The 41-year-old Emmy winner became the brunt of a scathing Oct. 2010 blog post by Marie Claire's blogger Maura Kelly, who criticized Mike and Molly's plus-sized stars (McCarthy's small-screen hubby is played by Billy Gardell).
"So anyway, yes, I think I'd be grossed out if I had to watch two characters with rolls and rolls of fat kissing each other," Kelly sniped in her post. ""Because I'd be grossed out if I had to watch them doing anything."
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McCarthy's thoughts on the fracas, for which Kelly later apologized? "My first thought was, 'Gosh, I hope she doesn't have a daughter,'" she tells the new Entertainment Weekly. "And then after a second I thought, 'What a sad, troubled person. You're making such a s---y judgment on people.'"
Still, McCarthy admits to EW that she occasionally wishes she had a different body than her own. "Do I sometimes hope I wake up in the morning and people are like, 'What's wrong with her? She looks so emaciated.' Of course I would love that," the comic star says.
"I'm such a clothes whore I would love the opportunity to be a hanger," admits McCarthy, who burst into tears when she won her Emmy for Mike and Molly in September. "But I think I'm more confident than I've ever felt in my life. I always thought it was worth the fight. Now I know it is."
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13Thank God for women like her! She is big and proud and soooo very confident! I have loved her in everything she has played from Sookie on Gilmore Girls to now....There is absolutely nothing wrong with having meat on your bones...Hollywoods is BS and has people brainwashed....Big is Beautiful!
I gota start watching that show she is on. I like this girl more and more every time i read about her.
She's beautiful insida and out.
The ONLY reason why Maura Kelly apologized is because EVERY ONE fell in love with Melissa and Billy . And when she one her Emmy it just made Maura's comments seem even more cruel.. Yes someone who post such bs is only trying to make up for the things they lack. Sad..Maura needs to go get help...so sad she feels so much hate against others.
Amy thank you, being a nurse I am always doing my health assessments....I understand and appreciate what you are sharing....yes good for her and you.....
Connie...I don't think she's serious. As an overweight person myself, I think she was just saying that it would be nice to wake up one morning and have the fat be gone. Unless you are a very confident person, of which I am not, you are constantly wondering what people are thinking when they look at you. Her, being in the public eye and in a business that is so weight conscious it can't have been easy of her. Sounds like she has gotten to a place where she's more comfortable in her skin. Good for her!
Love her on sat. night live....laughed my ass off
that'a dumb thing of her to say
yes she is pretty too! us fat girls stick together to hell with the rest.
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What would anyone want to be emaciated? Does she know what that really means to one's health?
love love love Her! she's awesome!
I LOVE HER FOR THIS!!!!!!! and bc she's hilarious and fabulous.