Australian actress Rebel Wilson said she was contractually obligated to stay overweight while filming the musical comedy The Perfect Voice, and that this clause remained in effect after the last feature film ended, Business Insider reports.

The 44-year-old actress told about this in an interview given to The London Times journalists the other day, saying that during the filming of 3 films Pitch Perfectin which she played a character named “Amy Grass”, her contract contained a clause that prohibited her from drastically altering her appearance for a year after filming.

At that time, she was wearing a size 50-52, and the clause stipulated that her weight could not fluctuate by more than 4.5 kilograms during the filming of 3 feature films released between 2012 and 2017.

Wilson also revealed that she made a conscious decision to make herself less attractive early in her career because she believed it would help her succeed in comedy roles.

“I knew I wouldn’t be taken as seriously as Cate Blanchett or Nicole Kidman, but I realized that the bigger you are, the more the audience laughs,” she said, stressing that “it was a decision.” look ugly” and that “it was part of my plan”.

Wilson revealed that she decided to start a healthy lifestyle in 2019 after a fertility doctor told her that she would have a better chance of getting pregnant through IVF if she lost weight.

But she says that not everyone supported her decision.

“People thought I was going to lose my career playing a fat and funny character, and they wanted me to keep doing it,” she told The Times.

In a year, the actress lost more than 30 kilograms

Despite the skepticism of some, Wilson managed to lose 34 pounds in the year since making the decision, telling Today at the time that she did it without extreme diets, but with exercise and a high-carb, high-protein, low-sugar diet.

Rebel Wilson in 2021 (PHOTO: Rob Latour / Shutterstock Editorial / Profimedia)

Despite a successful career that included roles in films such as Girlfriends of the bride and Isn’t that romantic?she recently stated in a separate interview with People magazine that she “got more attention for her weight loss than any movie I’ve ever done.”

In January, she shared that she gained 13.6 kilograms again due to stress at work.

She has won several film and music awards throughout her career, including two MTV Movie Awards in 2013 for the first film Pitch Perfect.

However, in 2020 she was “awarded” with a Golden Raspberry for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in a fantasy musical cats.

However, Wilson wasn’t the only one who didn’t convince in this feature film, which took home 6 Golden Raspberries, which are awarded annually to the weakest films in the film industry.

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