14 DAY TRIAL // Fans know Gemma Arterton as the gorgeous readhead in the Bond film “Quantum of Solace.” Just recently, she also starred as the soft-spoken Io in “Clash of the Titans,” while next week she will appear in “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.” She’s young and gorgeous – and, according to some designers, too fat to wear their creations.
Gemma’s weight generated a lot of media in the past as well, mostly because she’s naturally a curvy girl who has found herself in situations in which a role or certain producers needed her to be slimmer. For “Prince of Persia,” for instance, she was forbidden to eat, she says for the Daily Mail, but that’s not her biggest shock as of late. That “honor” goes to a designer whom she refuses to name, who wondered out loud about how fat she was.
“It is ridiculous. I went to a designer the other day – who will remain nameless – and he said to me: ‘I’m amazed that you’re fitting into these sample sizes’,” Gemma says. She then tried to explain to the designer that the problem wasn’t with her but rather with the industry, for not making sample dresses in larger sizes. “I’m a size eight to ten! I should be amazed that the largest you’re making these is a size six,” she told him/her.
Though very confident about her looks, Gemma too is prone to having what women call “fat days.” “Occasionally, I come home and say to my fiancé [stunt driver Stefano Mioni]: ‘I feel really fat.’ He says: ‘Will you just listen to yourself? You know you’re being silly.’ And I do know that when I’m home, but in the business it’s different. The only way that I could ever be a size six is if I didn’t eat. I’m not naturally meant to be that size, and I just feel like there’s a responsibility to people who aren’t that size to make that known. All I can do, I think, is try to look good. I have things made for me so they fit,” she explains.
As per the same publication, citing Gemma, producers on the much-hyped “Prince of Persia,” in which she stars opposite Jake Gyllenhaal, forced her to starve herself because she’d been photographed with a little more meat on her bones, as the saying goes, and a double chin.