Ivy Snitzer had always joked about her size, but when it was magnified on the big screen, her insecurities ballooned — and it proved near-fatal. Snitzer was cast as Gwyneth Paltrow’s body double in ...

"It was like the worst parts about being fat were magnified," Ivy Snitzer said The woman cast as Gwyneth Paltrow's body double in Shallow Hal says the experience resulted in her developing an eating ...

The film centers around a “shallow” guy named Hal (Jack Black) who gets hypnotized into only being able to see women’s inner beauty so that he no longer fixates on their physiques. He eventually falls ...

Content warning: This story includes descriptions of eating disorders. Ivy Snitzer, who played Gwyneth Paltrow's body double in the 2001 film "Shallow Hal," is speaking out about the struggles she has ...

The body double for Gwyneth Paltrow's plus-size character in the 2001 comedy "Shallow Hal" says she developed eating disorders and was practically "starving to death" in the years after the movie came ...

Gwyneth Paltrow’s body double from Shallow Hal has given a rare interview in which she discusses the impact of playing the Hollywood star’s body double in the 2001 comedy. The film follows Hal (Jack ...

There are many parts of pop culture that were accepted in the early 2000s that have been reframed in a way that acknowledges the harm they caused. The widened perspective of the past 23 years has ...

Gwyneth Paltrow was able to shed her celebrity status completely and found out what it was like to feel unappealing and unnoticed while trying out her Shallow Hal fat suit in public, in an excerpt ...

Gwyneth Paltrow’s “Shallow Hal” body double is reflecting on the near-deadly eating disorder she developed after the 2001 flick saw her become the target of fat-phobic people. It was the body of ...