Gwyneth Paltrow's body double, Ivy Snitzer, talks about developing an eating disorder after the success of Shallow Hal.
After her first surgery, Ivy Snitzer exercised excessively, purged, and restricted her calories. Doctors weren’t able to do a second surgery on Snitzer because of how malnourished she was. They first gave her a peripherally inserted central catheter line to provide her with liquid nutrition. For four months, she hooked herself up to an IV fluid bag every night after work. Because of further complications, Snitzer had to undergo a gastric bypass operation to remove part of her stomach.
When The Guardian asked Snitzer why she got the gastric band surgery, she responded. “I don’t know. Because I was supposed to! If you’re fat, you’re supposed to try to not be.” The former body double also mentioned that it was a coincidence she got surgery 15 months after Shallow Hal. Her true reasoning was that a doctor told her she wouldn’t make it to the age of 40 without surgery. Now at the age of 42, Ivy Snitzer is a health insurance agency owner in Philadelphia with a husband and a 13-year-old daughter.
Snitzer still finds it “cool” being part of Shallow Hal as she says it’s a fun story for her to tell over drinks. She also says she gets compliments from people on Instagram from women telling her she was the first plus-sized representation they ever saw on screen.Carly Levy is movie news writer born and raised in South Florida. As a hardcore cinephile, her Mount Rushmore of film directors includes Wes Anderson, John Carney, James Cameron, and Robert Wise.
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