True Blood Star: I'll Always "Be Hungry" as Long as I'm an Actress
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The skinny on being an actress: You're always hungry.
So says actress Kristin Bauer, who plays the sexy vampire Pam on HBO's hit series True Blood.
In a new Movieline interview, she reveals that the entire cast diets and yes, there is a pressure to be thin in Hollywood.
"The other day I realized as long as I'm in this business, I'm going to be hungry," says Bauer, 36. "The camera really does add 10 pounds. I'm trying to stay under the weight I want to look like on TV. It's a good incentive to stay slim and is probably adding years to my life... I'm vegetarian, so I live on carbs, but it's always an effort. After any wardrobe fitting, I hit the gym three times more than the week before."
She recalls one wardrobe fitting earlier this season when she learned she'd have to slip into a latex dress.
"I knew I would have my midriff showing," she says. "I thought, 'I need to get serious' and started going to ab classes more regularly."
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Fighting food temptations isn't easy, especially when she sees the craft services table, which is loaded with carbs. See the top 10 junk food substitutes.
"All the women walk by craft services and keep going," she says. "I don't even know why we walk by, we're just torturing ourselves. Alex [Skarsgard] and Joe [Manganiello], they're trying to add size, but we're all working out like crazy and have diets. Skarsgard seems to be the only one that works out a lot and eats a lot and does fine."
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True Blood's Anna Paquin also recently opened up about sticking to a strict diet.
"I don't want to be one of those actresses who says, 'I eat cheeseburgers all the time,' I don't!" she told the July issue of Self. "I eat a lot of fruit and vegetables."
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1936 my arse! No way.
All those who say that Snoop should have been allowed a cameo spot on the show - which is possibly the greatest on TV today - should just keep quiet! And the hot air blowing about the internet on the subject - of which this: http://bit.ly/bQ1gf5 is a good example - is simply that: hot air. The show is great and does not need celebrity cameos to improve it.
aw poor thing, she has the financial means to pay for the trainer, nutritionist and personal chef, while others don't have enough money to buy one MEAL. let me play her the world's smallest violin.
@missy you're not very smart are you? most people look heavier or bigger on TV because you'll notice that TV/camera is a short square box. This is why people like Tom Cruise who are quite small in person look bigger in person. People like Renee Zellwegger with round faces have to be UNDERWEIGHT to look average on film. And by your oh so logical reasoning that this is an excuse only overweight people use, then this actress is overweight because she said this? Seriously, DUH!!!!
You don't have to starve yourself or kill yourself at the gym to be svelte and fit. And the camera does NOT add 10 pounds, I've seen several anchor people as well as a few actors/actresses and they look SLIMMER on TV. That's just an excuse overweight people use.
SHE IS OVER 45. SHE LIES ABOUT HER AGE, MOST OLDER ACTRESS DO.
At first glance, I thought she was one of the Housewives of New Jersey-the one that left the show
First of all, I love Pam!!!!!!!!! All of the sudden in this season I think she's totally awesome. 2nd of all, I love her honesty about women and hollywood and food. People scrutinize every tiny fault with anyone - especially now with HD - so I'm sure there are pressures to be thin. But at least she's healthy!! I love her.
She does look a lot older than 36, but if you notice all the older actresses that starve themselves (all the desperate housewives, ex EVA for example) and you will see that starving to be a size zero just makes you look old and haggard. I do appreciate her honesty though, I can't stand it when these actresses try to lie and say they eat whatever they want. My sister was in the business a few years and trust me, they all barely eat or barf after eating.
She's a vegetarian but she lives on carbs? Real vegetarians live on vegetarian proteins, fruits, vegetables and carbohydrates. There's no need to be hungry if you educate yourself.
Anybody who has something negative to say about this womans honesty must have some serious mental issues & or jealousy issues.
LOVE her as Pam on True Blood! Being as actress in Hollywood must be hard though...you gain weight, you don't work, it's that simple.
I am 55 and look YEARS younger than that hag!! I guess when you eat rabbit food instead of REAL food, your body TELLS you by aging faster!! People such as this are SCARY in their obsessive quest for skeletal proportions!!
Being skinny can harm your body and take years off just as much as being overweight. People need to see the balance and that you don't need to be a size 0 just as much as a size 14!
I don't think she's adding years to her life by starving herself! Just because she's a vegetarian doesn't mean she's healthy...
This is a sad realization but one that's not a surprise. At least this actress is being honest and saying that she starves to be an actress, not the lie about having a fast metabolism.
i love that she's the character of "man hands" from seinfeld ahahaha i love her!
36!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!holy crap i thought she was about 45! no way she's my age. maybe it's all of the heavy makeup and trashy look they give her that makes her look like a washed up old broad
Interesting to hear, but none of them should feel that way at all!