ActressCandice Bergen refuses to fall in line with many of Hollywood's skinny starletsby admitting she is larger than most of them — and proud of it. The 68-year-old'sdeclaration was revealed in her new memoir where she writes about many topics, including her marriage and body image.
Candice recently attended SNL's 40th anniversary Photo: Getty Images
“Let me just come right out and sayit: I am fat,” she boldly writes in her book “A Fine Romance.” “In the past 15years ... I have puton 30 pounds. I live to eat. None of this ‘eat to live’ stuff for me. I am achampion eater. No carb is safe — no fat, either.”
The Murphy Brown star also focuses on her 15-year marriage to French director Louis Malle and remarriage to former NewYork Public Library Chairman Marshall Rose, but was particularly open when itcame to discussing her body.
Candice on set in 1970 Photo: Getty Images
“At a recent dinner party I sharedbread and olive oil, followed by chocolate ice cream with my husband. A womannear me looked at me, appalled, and I thought, ‘I don’t care,’” she writes. “Dieting is out of my purview. I crave cookies ... all the things that dilate mypupils.”
The actress took home an Emmy for her role in Murphy Brown Photo: Getty Images
Discussing how women over 50 mustchoose between preserving either their face or their behinds, Candice writes thatshe chose her looks over her body. And being surrounded by her skinny friendsonly confirms her blasé attitude toward gaining weight. “They maintain theirweight by routinely vomiting after major meals consisting of a slice of steakor a filet of fish,” she writes. “I am incapable of this.”
“A Fine Romance” comes out April 7and is the follow-up to her 1984 memoir "Knock Wood."
