As women, it's really important to be focused on things other than what is on the plate in front of you and get on with your life and develop your mind and career and not be so obsessed with how you look and what you weigh."ĭe Rossi said she was able to find help at the Montenido Treatment Centers and from therapist and author Carolyn Costin.Ĭlick HERE to for Web-extra resources to combat eating disorders. "I think that it's important to not be so concerned about how you look. Portia de Rossi’s memoir, Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain, is an indelible self-portrait of a woman so uncomfortable with her identity that she attempts to change every aspect under her control. "The message in this book for me is all about self-acceptance and being comfortable in your own skin," she said. Today, de Rossi says that when she looks in the mirror, she knows she's not perfect, but that's perfectly fine with her. Portia de Rossi on 'Being Comfortable in Your Own Skin' And, eventually, I really do credit him with turning things around for me."
It kind of punctured that obsessive mind of the anorexic thinking and it made me try to get a little healthier. "I'd never seen him cry before but he just broke down and said you're going to die. "He saw me working out at the gym and he saw how emaciated I'd become," she said. I knew that she had suffered with eating disorders, but nobody really sees the ugly, deep, dark places that she takes you in that book."īut de Rossi said her family knew how sick she was, and writes candidly in the book about a time when her brother confronted her about her illness. I don't know, I look at her and I just think, 'How did you ever – I mean, how did you not know how amazing you were?'
De Rossi married comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres in 2008.ĭeGeneres talked to Winfrey about the book as well: "She hated herself," DeGeneres said.
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