Women On TV Female Stars Step Off the Scale
There was always room in comedy for a fat friend, but it’s only recently that overweight women started being cast as romantic heroines or sexual temptresses. Donna on PARKS AND RECREATION, who is played by the actress and comedian Retta, has an active love life and a naughty streak. (She reads “50 Shades of Grey” at the office.)
Society is beginning to be more honest about the price some women pay to stay thin, helped along by celebrities who almost daily confess to eating disorders like bulimia, most recently Nicole Scherzinger, former lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls.
GENERAL HOSPITAL actor Scott Reeves to head to W.Va. for Mountain State Apple Harvest Festival Oct. 20
His first TV appearance was in 1984 when he was on the game show PRESS YOUR LUCK. He was 18.
