Boyle defends slim appearance, asserts love of junk food

Issue Number: 
327
Author: 
By TRJ
Published: 
2002-07-05


LOS ANGELES - Wafer-thin "The Practice" star Lara Flynn Boyle can't figure out why she's so skinny when she's got a hearty appetite for junk food - including Pop Tarts and candy, the New York Post's Page Six reports. "I love Slim Jims, Hot Tamales, banana cake... pie a la mode? Oh God, there's nothing like it," Boyle tells the August issue of Jane magazine.

Boyle has consistently raised eyebrows with her slim appearance - and has, in the past, been lumped in with ex-"Ally McBeal" actress Calista Flockhart in the category of too-thin actresses. But, according to Boyle, food is no issue.

"Roast beef, peas in mashed potatoes, escargot, caviar, peanut butter and jelly, Pop Tarts - I love it all," Boyle says. "I've never had issues with eating. "I don't work out. I just work," she says. "I get up at four in the morning, and I'm on my feet most of the day.
"Certain jobs just naturally keep you the weight you are."

But there's another aspect of her personal appearance that she's always had problems with, Boyle tells the magazine. "I've always wanted bigger breasts," she says. "I used to put toilet paper in my bathing suit when I was a little girl and we'd go swimming. "The costume designer [for the movie 'Men in Black II'] built me way up," she told Jane. "And a lot of the crew would ask my makeup artist if I had a boob job, 'cause all of a sudden I had a lot of padding.

"It was really fun to walk around the lot with these huge [breasts] just to see how every conversation went right there." Meanwhile, Boyle has gone on record saying that since her breakup with Jack Nicholson, she doesn't have a broken heart. Asked by Gotham magazine if she missed sitting courtside with Nicholson at L.A. Lakers games, she laughed: "Now, how the hell do you think I'm going to answer that? ... I have a TV just like everybody else, and I can see the game just fine, whether I'm with someone or not."

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