Near our home outside Melbourne we had some family friends, the Goffs, who had three daughters. Linda was a lawyer, Amanda a physiotherapist, and Allison a model. And although I was clever and achieved A grades, I needed to be the girl to whom my mother pointed.
So I decided to become a model. At 12, I sent Polaroid photographs of myself to various modelling agencies and one requested a meeting. So I did what any year-old would do — I threw a tantrum so violent that she took the day off sick and chauffeured me to the meeting. Four weeks later, the agency invited me to take part in a catwalk show and immediately I panicked. I had gained 5lb since my interview through eating too many crisps and sweets.
With only five days to go before the show I had no option but to embark on my first diet — a combination of caffeinated drinks, Ryvita and steamed vegetables that averaged no more than calories a day. Thanks to my rigid self-discipline, I shifted the extra pounds. I was proud of myself, and my mother was proud of me, too. Now, 14 years on, as I stood on the brink of fame, panic swept through me again. The producer of Ally McBeal had surely made a mistake. And how was I going to become a fashionable celebrity?
I needed to reinvent my image. I called my friend Kali and she agreed to come shopping with me. I set myself a goal. I would wear those capri pants on day one of my new job and I would make them fit with the same diet that I had used for that fashion show. A week later, I arrived on the Ally McBeal set with my capri pants fitting comfortably.
My first appointment was with Vera, the costume designer. She asked me to try on a pinstriped suit with a nipped-in waist.
As I admired my reflection in the mirror, I was almost giddy with excitement. The suit was a size 4. I wanted to tell her that it felt strange and scary and that I felt out of place.
In the four years of working on that show I never did say any of that to her. A few weeks later, I opened my dressing room wardrobe. On the rail were 15 sets of bras and panties — the kind that are intended to be seen.
Please try on at your convenience. Thanks, V. An underwear scene. And the next episode was only eight days away. I hated everything about the underwear scene.
And I especially hated what I wore — black lingerie with a trashy stripper vibe. After that scene I bought two treadmills — one for my apartment and one for my dressing room so that I could work out at lunchtime. Many of the Ally McBeal cast members had them. I also hired a nutritionist, Suzanne. I told her everything: that from the age of 12, starving and bingeing and purging had been the only way to reach my goal weight, and that, from 15, laxatives were part of my everyday life.
Suzanne set my calorie intake for optimum weight loss at 1, calories a day. Without telling her, I reset it to 1, Within weeks, my weight fell from lb 9st 4lb to lb 8st 8lb , then lb 8st 3lb. After its initial run , however, the show was renewed—due in no small part to its strong, cult-like following—this time airing exclusively on Netflix. Premiering in , the series' fourth season saw the reunion of the entire original cast.
De Rossi has had a very public personal life. De Rossi was married to male filmmaker Mel Metcalfe from to '99, later stating that she had entered into the union in order to get a green card. In , photos of the actress with her then-partner, female singer Francesca Gregorini, were leaked to the public, creating speculation surrounding her sexual orientation. Initially, De Rossi neither confirmed nor denied the allegations, but she later used the photos as an informal way of coming out to the public and to her family, who was previously unaware of her sexual identity.
De Rossi dated Gregorini for four years before becoming romantically linked to comedian Ellen DeGeneres; the two first met when de Rossi was a cast member of Ally McBeal , before de Rossi had gone public about her homosexuality.
They met again after de Rossi and Gregorini broke up, and their relationship began shortly thereafter. It was then, in , that de Rossi publicly announced her sexual orientation.
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He was married to Marie Antoinette and was executed for treason by guillotine in Henry the Navigator, a 15th century Portuguese prince, helped usher in both the Age of Discovery and the Atlantic slave trade. Shepard knew Kelley and his wife, actress Michelle Pfeiffer. He has been married to actress Michelle Pfeiffer since , and the couple has two children. Kelley was a practicing lawyer until he got involved in the show "L. Law" in the 's and made the jump to screenwriting and producing.
She said "the show changed all of our lives. In , she won a Tony for her Broadway performance in "Nine.
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