Brittany Murphy's Recent Weight-loss Worried Colleagues
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Months before her sudden death Dec. 20, Brittany Murphy's appearance worried coworkers.
While shooting the horror flick Something Wicked this summer, "she looked ill, as much as 10 pounds underweight, and she's a small person to begin with," executive producer Scott Chambers told the Los Angeles Times. "She easily could have made an excuse not to come to work, but she didn't. She said, 'I've got to get better, but I want to do this part.'"
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Reports also surfaced that she'd go in and out of consciousness between takes. But producer Scott Chambers has said those reports are "absolutely untrue."
Murphy encountered more work drama recently: Rumors swirled that she was fired from the thriller The Caller after she and husband Simon Monjack were accused of causing problems on set. Her rep has said Murphy and the filmmakers parted ways amicably due to "creative differences."
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In January, she was set to begin the romantic comedy Shrinking Charlotte. Writer-director Rene Eram told E! that while Murphy was professional, "I noticed that she had dropped a lot of weight in the last six months."
Jeff Bowler, a producer on her new drama Across the Hall, saw her Dec. 1 and tells UsMagazine.com that while he "only got to talk to her for a few minutes, she seemed OK. She was a little pale, but she seemed fine. She was bubbly and excited and went around and said hi to everybody and shook hands and gave autographs -- typical Brittany."
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Bowler adds, "You would never have guessed anything was wrong with her. If she was sick, you wouldn’t know it."
Gary Gimelfarb, the film's executive producer, also tells Us that "some days were better than others" while filming, but overall she "really seemed to perform to the best of her ability."
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Designer Tiffany Saidnia, who styled Murphy for her last public appearance Dec. 3 at the L.A. opening of Tt Collection's Pop-Up shop, tells Us: "She was great, in high spirits, talking to everyone. I think that's a great part of the disbelief: She was in such a great mood."
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57Anorexia or Cocaine?
Hollywood is a F-ing joke. Wake up people there are more important things in life than all of this crap.
yall didnt do **** about it before. rest in peace doll face. love you;
its crazy how the directors and everyone now wants to say she was too skinny.....
Do you all have to rant and rave and nag about this poor girl??? She's too skinny, post a better pic, WTF??? She's dead!!!!!! Leave her the hell alone already. You people are nothing but a bunch of hypocrites and so isn't this whole darn site....... IT'S ALL BS. WAKE UP PEOPLE
maybe her 'great mood' was an act. Maybe she was very distressed but didn't want to say anything. Guess the autopsy will reveal the truth.
its sad enough that she passed away but the pic they r showing isnt fair, her fans deserve a better pic of her to help remember her and the way she looked b4 the weight loss...rip!
She was such a beautiful and talented girl. Very sad.
I never SAW such a drastic weight change. To make things worse, she was a 32 year old women who without the fake boobs, looked like a Holocaust victim. Put some prescription drugs in her and BINGO - her heart can't take it. NO ONE IS TO BLAME FOR BRITTANY'S DEATH BUT BRITTANY. I'm overweight, I could die of a heart attack at any minute - I plan on dieting and exercising after the holidays. If I drop dead - IT'S NOT MY HUSBAND'S FAULT, Not my mother's fault. It's MY FAULT. I am the one who eats too much ice cream. Brittany is the one who starved her herself, it appears. She had to KNOW that she was abusing her body. So sad. But only Brittany is responsible for this tragedy. RIP Brittany. Hope I stick to my diet to be around for my family. I owe it to them.
I agree with Jill's comment, as I said the same thing. It's so obvious that she was Anorexic! Your heart can't take all that abuse. The combination of the drugs they found in her bedroom, not eating, and pushing yourself physically, is a heart attack just waiting to happen. This is so sad. Why she wasn't happy at the weight she was at, baffles me. Why didn't anyone see this coming? Did they just turn their heads when they should have seen the drastic weight loss? What is wrong with these Hollywood people? The pressure to be skinny is sad. She must have been a better actress than some give her credit for, because she put on the performance of her life, hiding her horrible eating disorder! Sad, very sad! How could she have possibly be happy?
" I'm not Rajeeb's girl ".....so what's you freakin point then, you could care less, you think she is a terrible actress and what exactly have you accomplhsed besides looking like a major piece of sh*t? You are nothing but a spec of dirt compared to her
I could care less. Brittany was a awful actress. Her performances were terrible. But i have to feel for her parents and other loved ones. Especially the parents. Losing a child is difficult. And being so close to the holidays. Enough is enough. So many stories around her death is getting old.
This is just sad!
If you believe she was diabetic I have some swamp land in Florida to sell you.
She was So thin a couple weeks ago at some Hollywood event she looked beyond frail its too late for Brittany unfortuntly...but its not too late to save girls/women that suffer w/eating related disorders i know something about that as i suffered w/an eating disorder from age 10-17 i and i lived to tell about it its so serious you can die like this to young women i want u 2 know its not worth it to look like an Expess/Modal or a Hollywood celeb,thats not real,look at this Brittany may have died by an addiction to something but im pretty sure she was struggling with something deeper than that.
Merry Christmas Brittany, may you rest in peace.
Flu-like symptoms? Swine flu? AIDS?
Her mom was at the house. Did she live with Brittany? If she did, I can't believe her mother didn't intervene when she started dropping weight.
I LOVED YOU SO MUCH, BRITTANY. SO MUCH. YOU WERE A VERY PRECIOUS GEM AMONGST VERY ARROGANT HOLLYWOODIANS. You deserved so much more life, so much more better movies. May Jehovah remember you. God's speed.
Anorexia can kill. Anorexics are great at hiding their behaviors, whether it be not eating or binging and purging. It will get your heart if you do not get help. I know because I was anorexic, but at a time when little was known about it. It was probably that her heart gave out. You can also get a stroke or a mini stroke if you binge and purge. In her case, if she was taking medications, that could have compromised her already taxed heart. If you are anorexic or bulemic, there are support groups in your community to help you along. I have been free of this madness for 25 yrs, so I know what I am talking about.