Since its premiere in 2001, 'Blind Love', the film in which Gwyneth Paltrow played an overweight woman, has received multiple criticisms. Now, the actress's body double, Ivy Snitzer, has confessed that she developed an eating disorder after filming the film.
Over the years, 'Blind Love' has been a highly criticized and problematic film. Starring Jack Black and Gwyneth Paltrow in 2001, the film features a superficial man who only dates thin, young women and is hypnotized by a motivational entrepreneur, who quickly falls for an overweight woman even though he doesn't realize it. However, his love is tested when his friend wears off the hypnosis and reverts to superficiality. You can remember it in the video.
Gwyneth Paltrow, who has undergone various beauty treatments over the years, had to wear a controversial 'fat suit' for the film to gain that weight. However, for the close-ups of her body, Ivy Snitzer was Paltrow's double. Years later, Ivy, who she admits to having enjoyed during the filming of the film, has also opened up about the difficulties and problems she faced afterward.
"It was just fun to be part of a movie, there are very few people who can really do that," Snitzer admitted during an interview with The Guardian. "At the time, if you saw someone fat in a movie, he was a villain. My character was cool, he was popular, he had friends."
But after the filming of the film, Ella Ivy recounts that she "hated" her body "as she was supposed to": "She ate a lot of salads. She had eating disorders that she was very proud of", She has shared.
The young actress, who now works in an insurance agency, has confessed that it did not occur to her that "millions of people would see the film". "It was like the worst parts of being fat were magnified. And nobody said it. I was funny," she continued.
Two years after its premiere, in 2003, Ivy underwent gastric band surgery to lose weight, but the result was not as expected and there were complications after the band slipped, something that Snitzer herself assured almost killed her. In the aftermath of the incident, she was only able to consume "sports drinks and watered-down nutritional shakes" for the next three months.
Snitzer has assured that the film's premiere had nothing to do with her decision to undergo the surgery, but she has confessed: "I'm sure she wanted to be small and not be seen." "I'm sure that's there, but I don't remember ever consciously thinking about it," she has stated, referring to 'Blind Love'.
Ivy has confessed that she felt "scared and sad" for making overweight kids feel bad, but she admits that she "loves that it's a cool thing I did once." "She didn't make me feel bad about myself until other people started telling me that I probably should have felt bad about myself," she explained.
Years after its premiere, 'Blind Love' has not only received multiple criticisms from the public but also from the cast. Paltrow herself also recounted for W Magazine her uncomfortable experience characterized on the filming set of the film: "I was walking through the lobby. It was very sad, very disturbing. Nobody looked me in the eye because I was obese. I felt humiliated because people were really nasty."
