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Renée Zellweger For Bridget Jones’s Diary

The usually slender Renée Zellweger packed on 30 pounds not once, but twice, for her starring role in Bridget Jones’s Diary and its sequel.

For the first film, Zellweger simply gorged herself, trying to gain the weight in any way possible, but for the sequel she took a much more controlled approach, working with a nutritionist to ensure that she was gaining the weight in the healthiest way possible. She still didn’t enjoy putting on the weight, as she was extremely afraid of health problems that people were telling her about.

Check out what she had to say below.

“I had a panic with all the specialists talking about how bad this is for you long-term, putting on that much weight in short periods of time”

Between those two films Zellweger had to slim down for Chicago, dropping the weight and in turn receiving an Oscar nomination for her efforts. It’s always hard to go up and down with weight but the actress pulled it off and for it, her effort was rewarded.