Gwyneth Paltrow's Shallow Hal Body Double Claims She Almost Starved to Death Aft

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00:00 Are you sure that's what you want to do?

00:02 (upbeat music)

00:04 ♪ La la ♪

00:05 ♪ Coco ♪

00:07 - A shocking omission from Gwyneth Paltrow's body double

00:10 for shallow Hal, Ivy Snitzer,

00:12 who now claims she developed an eating disorder

00:15 after the movie wrapped.

00:16 - Okay, not only do you have to work really hard

00:18 all the time, but you also have to be,

00:20 constantly be beautiful, constantly be funny.

00:22 It's an impossibility.

00:23 - Ivy opens up to the Guardian

00:24 about her serious health battles,

00:26 including body image issues and risky weight loss surgeries,

00:30 all of which followed the comedy's premiere

00:32 over 20 years ago.

00:34 - From this moment on,

00:35 whenever you meet someone in the future,

00:37 you're only gonna see what's inside them.

00:40 - In the movie, Jack Black plays a man

00:42 who, after undergoing hypnosis,

00:44 sees Gwyneth's character as what the Oscar winner

00:46 looks like in real life.

00:48 - No matter what I eat, my weight just seems to stay the same.

00:51 - Meanwhile, her appearance is actually

00:53 then 20-year-old Ivy.

00:55 And at times, it's also Gwyneth wearing a body suit

00:58 and makeup prosthetics.

01:00 - With me, it's not something that I can take off.

01:02 It's just part of who I am.

01:04 - Were you at all, in any way,

01:05 offended by anything you read in the script?

01:07 - No, not at all.

01:08 I thought it was really, really funny

01:09 and just such a really sweet story.

01:11 I really liked it.

01:13 - That's Ivy speaking with E.T.

01:14 after "Shallow Hal" hit theaters.

01:16 - And the whole set was so fun.

01:18 Just the whole thing, like the whole atmosphere

01:19 was just amazing all the time.

01:21 Gwyneth is so incredible.

01:23 She's such an amazing icon.

01:25 - And Ivy, she still has positive memories

01:27 from behind the scenes, where the cast and crew,

01:29 quote, "treated me like I really matter."

01:32 - What it's saying is she's fat,

01:33 but she's such an incredible person

01:36 that inside her heart looks like Gwyneth Paltrow.

01:40 I think that's the most wonderful thing in the world.

01:42 It's just the idea of just absolute inner beauty.

01:46 - But off the set, that's when Ivy felt societal pressure

01:49 to lose weight, leading her to undergo

01:52 gastric bypass surgery, a procedure

01:54 that was ultimately botched.

01:56 And Ivy claims at one point in the aftermath,

01:58 she was technically starving to death.

02:01 - I'm really happy to be me.

02:02 - Ivy's doing much better these days,

02:04 leaving Hollywood behind and now married with a daughter.

02:07 (thunder rumbling)

02:10 - It was about how we judge people by the way they look,

02:19 and we don't really go beyond just their physical appearance

02:23 and it had some cool resonance in that way.

02:26 People still compliment me on that movie

02:28 and I think that's why it struck a chord.

02:30 - Of course, in 2023, some might say

02:32 the movie's good intentions have a bad look.

02:35 ♪ All you want better be in ♪

02:39 As for Gwyneth?

02:41 - What is my least favorite performance?

02:44 - I would say would be "Shallow Hallow."

02:47 - Exactly.

02:49 That was before your time.

02:52 See what happened.

02:53 - Disaster.

02:54 - My personality and my size, it's all the same person.

02:57 (dramatic music)

03:00 (upbeat music)

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