Mendes explained that every few episodes she had a two-hour fitting that was “overwhelming” because she was trying on clothes her character, Veronica Lodge would wear that she normally would not. “It was like so the opposite of what I like to wear and it was really uncomfortable,” she said. “It made me really insecure, so it got to a point where I couldn’t get through a fitting. Thirty minutes in, I was crying…I was like, ‘Why don’t things fit me a certain way?’” Previously, in a 2018 interview with Shape, she revealed that she had struggled with eating disorders while in high school and in college. In February 2018, she declared that she was #donewithdieting via an Instagram post. She also said that it was the Riverdale fitting sessions that made her want to seek professional help and finally meet a therapist. She went on to explain how playing the role of an anorexic teen in the 2014 dramedy The Road Within caused her to restart her unhealthy eating patterns at the age of 25. Having lost a considerable amount of weight for the role, she wasn’t happy with her 90-pound figure either. “It was fucked up, man,” she said. “You could see my rib cage. I was just trying to lose more weight for the film but I couldn’t see: You’re there. Stop. It was scary.” Kravitz also revealed that the recovery process was not easy and that she was hard on herself. She wasn’t happy gaining back all the weight she had lost even though she had lost her periods and her thyroid had been thrown off risking her immune system. “I was like, ‘I don’t want to gain weight,’ as opposed to being like, ‘Good, I’m a normal human being,’” she said. In an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live Phoenix also mentioned that the experience might have caused him to develop disordered eating patterns. He went on to explain that hunger “rears its head in strange ways” and he couldn’t socialize with anyone because that would likely involve eating and drinking or watching commercials that involved eating or drinking. In another interview with Access Hollywood, Stoner revealed the preparation she went through for her audition for the role of Katniss Everdeen in Hunger Games. “I was so committed to the audition process that I underwent very intense physical training, and I was on a very restrictive diet,” she said. “My hair is starting to fall out, my skin is sallow, and I’m medically underweight.” In 2011, she was hospitalized and admitted herself to rehab for further treatment of her eating disorders at the age of 17. Years of putting his body through diets to achieve extreme weight loss or gain have had a heavy impact on the actor’s relationship with food. In an interview with Albawaba, he revealed the extreme transformation to play the role of a heroin addict in Requiem for a Dream made him “addicted to losing weight”. Leto said he kept looking in the mirror but didn’t “see himself” as being thin enough and that “a little voice” in his head kept telling him that it was possible to lose more weight. “It was very difficult to stay the weight that you were supposed to stay,” she said. “For me, I’m genetically blessed in certain ways, but in terms of having the weight be a certain size 0, it was very hard. I didn’t eat sometimes for a couple of days.” Sims also said that she would end up walking for 14 miles a day to maintain a size 0.
