I Hate Seeing Myself On Stage: Star Wars Sex Symbol Carrie Fisher On Her Weight Gain

DailyMail(UK) ^ | October 01st 2009

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I Hate Seeing Myself On Stage: Star Wars Sex Symbol Carrie Fisher On Her Weight Gain [Pics in URL]

Daily Mail Reporter 01st October 2009

At the tender age of 19 Carrie Fisher became a worldwide sex symbol with her iconic role as Princess Leia in Star Wars.

But at the age of 52 her weight gain has left her unable to look at film of herself on stage.

Fisher spoke out after her successful one-woman show Wishful Drinking opened on Broadway.

[edpc]

Well, she could always go back to the coke.

[FrdmLvr]

Carrie Fisher a sex symbol as Princess Leah? I don’t see it. I can’t believe she was ever considered a sex symbol.

[taillightchaser]

Carrie porked out-—my life is ruined!! sarc
Who is she and why should we care????

[HospiceNurse]

I can’t understand the anger. She is 52 and looks it. So what?

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

In the sci-fi world it’s called the Princess Leia paradox: Princess Leia hot, Carrie Fischer not. Odd, but somehow true.

[SonOfDarkSkies]

Visuals?

[scoobysnak71]

Well, the weight isn't so much, but, I mean, the >EYE STUFF<, really, I mean, Da-yam girl!

[Venturer]

25 or so years , the fake red hair and that blue sparkle crap around her eyes arent much help either.

[Richard Kimball]

I dunno. There's something about her I liked. I just wish I could put my finger on it.

[Huck]

I never thought Leia was hot. The skimpy getup grossed me out worse than Jabba the Hut. She’s a skank.

[databoss]

“wishful Drinking” - Title sums it up...step away from the bottle Carrie....

[rabscuttle385]

Carrie porked out-—my life is ruined!!

Don't worry. There's always Natalie Portman.

I would make a joke about hot grits, but this is FR, not /.

[albie]

Good lord! What the hell happened? The glitter really shows that she’s a total fruitcake!

[Steelfish]

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[yarddog]

I remember when I first saw “Star Wars”, I thought she was not beautiful but pretty enough to get by in the role.

I do think she had a good figure which was well displayed on “Return of the Jedi”.

[omega4179]

I always thought she was Hot.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

When a woman reaches a certain age (lets say, in the case of glitter applications, over the age of 12) cosmetic choices should be made wisely.

[autumnraine]

I’d rather have a healthy overweight Carrie Fisher than a coked out drug addict Carrie Fisher. Same for others like Stevie Nicks.

[autumnraine]

Who is she??? You are OBVIOUSLY not a hopeless nerd such as myself and did not play endlessly with Star Wars action figures and Death Stars. ;o)

[stevem]

I don’t think she helps herself by doing what she does to her eyes.

[Dacus943]

You are so right. 25 or so years ago just looking at her portrayal as Princess Leia Organa caused this one's thoughts to drift dangerously into the dark side of the force.

The complainers in this thread - I'm thinking that most of us would have risked the ire of Lord Vader just to meet with the Princess. That is, unless you were deeply, and spiritually connected to your same sex partner...!

[Hammerhead]

you know that you are insane don’t you?

[stop_fascism]

My thoughts, almost exactly.

[Hammerhead]

I did...she just didn’t know it.

[SkyDancer]

Then too, there was always Roseanne Barr ...

[Kirkwood]

Nerd test. Is Princess Leia hot? Yes = Nerd; No = Normal. If you thought R2D2 was hot, then you’re a geek.

[Steelfish]

LOL!

[FeliciaCat]

Thats Rosie O’Donnell honey...lol!

[scoobysnak71]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[SkyDancer]

LOL - for some reason I had written Barr instead. I did that to her one time before .... not even 25 and loosing it already.

[caper gal 1]

I believe that’s Rosie O’Donnell, but in reality one is just as scary as the other.

[SkyDancer]

Yeah ... I hate when that happens ... it’s Rosie alright.

[Tublecane]

“Carrie Fisher a sex symbol as Princess Leah? I don’t see it. I can’t believe she was ever considered a sex symbol.”

Maybe she wasn’t in the original Star Wars (though she did jiggle here and there), but she certainly was in Return of the Jedi. You are free to disagree—though that would lead me to ask if you’re blind—but it’s hard to argue with the popular response. Her gold-bikini sexiness is a pop-cultural touchstone.

[Trailerpark Badass]

I never thought Leia was hot. The skimpy getup grossed me out worse than Jabba the Hut. She’s a skank.

Yeah, I was like 14 when Star Wars came out, never thought she was hot. Thought the movie sucked, too.

So either I'm the weirdo, or it's all the sci-fi comic book dorks who are the weirdos, LOL.

[FrdmLvr]

I only saw the original Star Wars movie. She wore that long white robe and her hair wrapped around her ears like ear muffs.

[Richard Kimball]

Carrie was a basket case later in life and didn't keep her looks for very long, so a lot of people diss her. At her best, though, she was quite beautiful. In this article she's dealing with the same problem that a lot of celebrities do. You just don't look the same at fifty as you did at nineteen. For most of us, it's a little bit of a problem, but we don't have to look at moving images of ourselves when we were young or deal with the expectations of people who see us and expect us to look like we did thirty years ago.

I've always thought about Sandra Dee in that regard. She was fifty years old and people were expecting to meet Gidget.

[PeteePie]

She was so hot.

[Huck]

I liked Star Wars when it came out—I was 10. Now I find them all pretty much unwatchable.

[billorites]

"I can’t believe she was ever considered a sex symbol."

Well, I can assure you that she certainly was considered so. At least, by me anyway.

Perhaps only for 2-3 minutes at a time...

but I've always had an unusually fast metabolism.

[Captain Peter Blood]

I still don't mind watching the early Star Wars pictures, it's the last three that after one viewing I can't look at again, they were terribly written and directed.
Lucas is talented in a number of ways but as a director and writer he really is bad.

[PeteB570]

taillightchaser;

You are young Grasshopper.

With age will come wisdom.

[Tainan]

Yep..that one works for me...8)

[Slings and Arrows]

I wonder if she’s on steroids? She has that puffy look.

[Lizavetta]

In February 2009:

[Ramius]

Women in their 50’s tend not to be as sexy as they are in their 20’s. Same as with men, of course. Age and metabolism changes are cruel, but they’re part of life.

But that Princess Leah-as-slave-girl costume of hers will live on for centuries.

[Lizavetta]

I'm sorry, I don't buy the metabolism thing as an excuse for getting fat. You adjust, just as you adjust when you exercise less and become more sedentary as you get older.

I'm almost 46 and after being 25+ pounds overweight my entire life am now mid 130s and look great because I got off my ass and ate less. And I'm the laziest do-nothing on the planet - it was not an easy thing to do.

If she's fat it's because she's eating more than she's burning off. And it's in her power to change that.

[Billthedrill]

She's 52, she isn't dead. If she wants to do something about it she can.

I'd lose the glitter, though. Without it - #45, and thanks, Lizavetta - she looks like a real human being who you could actually talk to. And that'd be all right, because she's got some great stories and somebody should.

[Ramius]

If she's fat it's because she's eating more than she's burning off. And it's in her power to change that.

Oh, yes, you're right of course. I was just speaking from my own experience. All my life I never carried any excess weight. I ate all the worst stuff, and never gained a pound. I didn't really "excercise" much, other than the usual activity that everbody does every day. But it never seemed to affect me. Then I turned 40. Over the next couple or few years... things started to turn different. Sure, I had some bad habits... but they had cost me nothing up to then... suddenly those habits started making a difference. The worst part was that then getting smart and cutting back on the calories and carbs only slowed the onset of excess weight and didn't cut it back any anymore. Nowadays... I have to stay on a fairly extreme low-carb, low-calorie diet just to keep from gaining any more. Bodies at different ages have very different chemistry. That's just true.

[Christian4Bush]

If she's fat it's because she's eating more than she's burning off. And it's in her power to change that.

Hell, if Rush Limbaugh could drop all the weight he has, and he's older than Carrie is, she can do it...if she wants to.

As for hot or not - definitely "not guilty" in all three movies. Amazing to read the backstory of the infamous ROTJ costume...apparently many instances of "wardrobe malfunctions" including exposed cat...