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[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content]Jane Fonda is opening up about a scary time in her life — something no one saw behind the façade of Hollywood glamor.
The actress, activist, model, and fitness guru has had a wildly successful career, to say the least. From her multiple Academy Award wins to cornering the home workout market for YEARS, the 85-year-old continues to be a trailblazer to this day — even when it comes to her blatant honesty.
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While appearing on the Call Her Daddy podcast Wednesday, the 80 for Brady star got candid about her early days in Hollywood — and the debilitating disorder she believed was going take her life:
Wow, what a terrifying outlook. What she was doing to herself turned her life into the opposite of what viewers of films like Walk On The Wild Side or Cat Ballou probably pictured. She continued:
She told host Alex Cooper that while the eating disorder seemed “so innocent” and “so innocuous” at first, it eventually began to “take over” every aspect of her life:
The Barbarella lead added:
So disheartening, and sadly the reality for so many to this day. The disorder stayed with Fonda through her 30s, fueled by the pressure from Hollywood and her family. However, as she entered her 40s, she began to feel “worse and worse,” and she remembered thinking:
From that point on, she gained perspective over how “important” her children, love life, and career were — and made the challenging decision to quit “cold turkey.” She explained:
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The Monster-in-Law actress added that while she didn’t turn to anyone for help, she did find meditation
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Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer When Jimmy Warden was a kid growing up in Chicago, he wound up watching “a lot” of horror movies when he was, he says, “far too young.” “I became used to seeing people get their guts eaten or torn out of their bodies, stuff like that,” he says over Zoom with a wry chuckle. “So that’s where a lot of my taste is right now.” Warden’s sensibility is on robust display in his screenplay for “Cocaine Bear,” the R-rated action-comedy, directed by Elizabeth Banks, that is loosely based on the true story of a black bear who died after ingesting a mountain of cocaine in 1985 from a botched drug smuggling operation. Warden stumbled on the account in the mid-2010s while scrolling through Twitter, “not doing work that I should have been doing,” and instantly realized that “there was something there.”
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Jane Fonda is getting real about her life, parenting, and what she sees as her shortcomings as a mother to her three adult children.Recently, Fonda spoke with CNN's Chris Wallace and explained how she wishes she'd done things differently when it comes to being a mom to her children — Vanessa Vadim, Mary Luana Williams and Troy Garity.Fonda, 85, explained how, after battling cancer, she's not afraid of dying, but rather «getting to the end of life with a lot of regrets, when there's no time to do anything about it.»«I was not the kind of mother that I wish that I had been to my children,» Fonda said, explaining that was one of the few regrets she has now. «I have great, great children. Talented.
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Zack Sharf Ellen Barkin got brutally honest in a recent interview with HuffPo about battling misogyny, sexism and harassment in Hollywood. The actor revealed that during the making of her 1989 neo-noir thriller “Sea of Love,” director Harold Becker allegedly ripped off her merkin during the filming of a nude scene. A merkin is a loin cloth garment that serves as a pubic wig for actors to wear during nude scenes. “What was I going to do when [director] Harold Becker on ‘Sea of Love’ walks over and literally rips my merkin off, taking some pubic hair with him and saying: ‘What do you need this for? Nobody’s looking at you,’” Barkin said, adding that Hollywood made her feel so powerless that the answer back then was “you do nothing.”
“Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?” “I have great, great children — talented, smart — and I just didn’t know how to do it.”Fonda, who has three children: daughter Vanessa Vadim, 54, with ex-husband Roger Vadim, son Troy O’Donovan Garity, 49, and adopted daughter Mary Luana Williams, 55, both of whom she shared with her late ex-husband Tom Hayden.Fonda says she finally saw what good parenting is supposed to look like thanks to her organization, the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention.“I know what it’s supposed to be now, I didn’t know then,” she said. “So I’m trying to show up now.” Elsewhere in the interview, Fonda, who revealed her cancer diagnosis in September, said she’s not afraid of death — a sentiment she has expressed in the past.“What I’m really scared of is getting to the end of life with a lot of regrets when there’s no time to do anything about it.
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80 for Brady,” Wallace brought up her decades of political activism and arguably the most controversial moment of Fonda’s public life – that infamous photo that resulted in the lasting nickname Hanoi Jane and the de facto blacklisting in Hollywood until she made her comeback with “Fun With Dick and Jane” five years later.When asked by Wallace how she feels about that photo in retrospect, Fonda called it a “terrible mistake.”“I never wanted to go to any military installations. It was the last day of my two-week time there.
New photos show Jane Fonda attending the Vienna Opera Ball with Austrian tycoon Richard Lugner, after she revealed he was paying her to be on his arm for the evening. Fonda wore an ivory, long sleeved dress to accompany Lugner, who wore a top hat and white scarf with his tuxedo.
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reportedly paid as much as half a million dollars for celebrities such as Kim Kardashian to accompany him to the annual fundraiser.Lugner reportedly rolled out the red carpet for the 85-year-old “Grace & Frankie” star who was welcomed to Austria’s capital city with a bouquet, a photo op and a stretch limousine — all of which she declined to accept. Instead, the “Book Club” star tore up her script for the week, and made her own itinerary instead, touring museums and galleries in Vienna, sans Lugner, according to the Irish Times.She then ranted that fossil fuel companies are “criminal,” after learning that oil and gas company OMV was a sponsor for the ball. “Until yesterday I thought I was going to the opera with this man, now I’ve learned that it’s a popular ball,” Fonda told The Irish Times at a news conference ahead of the event.
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