Candice Bergen’s still promoting her memoir, A Fine Romance. I talked yesterday about Candice’s feelings on plastic surgery (she’s done with it). The more interesting discussion revolved around Candice’s stance on her weight gain (she believes she’s fat and doesn’t care). She talked more about diet and weight during her visit to Today. She won’t eat lunch with anyone who orders a kale salad. Candice also covers the notion of “having it all” as a woman, aging as an actor, and her father’s will:
Her weight comments: “It was a scant reference on page 150 or something. I was just saying, I don’t enjoy eating lunch with some women who only have kale. I just find it limiting … I’d rather not go on, if that’s what I have to eat to fuel myself. I’m very comfortable. I mean, would I love to lose 10, 15 pounds? Absolutely. But I just haven’t taken the steps to do it.”
On aging in Hollywood: “I’m on the older margin these days. I play mothers — mothers of old men, by the way! It’s so sort of distressing. But yeah, I feel free, frankly, pretty much across the board.”
On the single motherhood storyline on Murphy Brown: “That isn’t something that I in the least encourage; fathers are not dispensable. It’s like, ‘You can have it all.’ Well, you can’t quite. It costs your child or your job or your husband. When they were writing the scripts for Murphy, I fought tooth and nail that she not look like someone whose child was second priority to her career.”
Her dad left her out of his will: “I’d chased my father’s approval all my life and here was proof I’d never get it.”
[From Today & Daily Mail]
The part about her father’s will is an unexpected detail, but I guess it works for a memoir. Edgar Bergen, a well-known ventriloquist, left $10,000 to his dummy. He made a deliberate move to leave Candice nothing but give money to an inanimate object. That probably stung, but I hope Candice isn’t upset about the money itself. She made her own money.
On the kale thing, I agree with Candice but for a different reason. Kale is healthy and pretty cheap, so I eat it at home, and my dogs dig the stuff (for real). Yet when I visit a restaurant, there’s no way a salad will be the main course. Going out to eat is a treat, so it should be an occasion for indulgence. But if anyone else wants to eat kale at a restaurant, then I don’t have a problem sitting next to them. More bread for me!
Here’s the today show clip where Candice disses kale eaters.
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