3:07 am - 12/02/2012
Vegan Anne Hathaway flaunts 25-lb weight loss
Actress Anne Hathaway, who lost 25 pounds on a crash diet for the film, "Les Misérables," looks sporty and sassy in the January 2013 issue of Glamour.
The slender 5-foot-8 Anne dons a white tank top and black underwear that accentuate her lean thighs. Hathaway, 30, admitted she essentially starved herself to look the part of the emaciated Fantine in the tragedy, "Les Misérables."
"I had to be obsessive about it; the idea was to look near death," Hathaway told Vogue. "Looking back on the whole experience, it was definitely a little nuts. It was definitely a break with reality, but I think that’s who Fantine is anyway."
Anne lost 10 pounds before shooting began, and then lost another 15 pounds during a two-week break in filming by eating only two thin squares of dried oatmeal paste a day. Hathaway's competitive personality enabled her to stick to her extreme low-calorie diet.
"I like to fight for a job," she says. "You feel like you've emerged from the scrap, and you're like, 'OK, this one's mine. Did it. Done.' "
Transforming herself physically is nothing new for the dedicated Anne, who worked out five days a week to play Catwoman in "The Dark Knight Rises." In addition to gym workouts, Hathaway underwent stunt training, did strength exercises as well as 90 minutes of dance every day.
Anne, who switched to a vegan diet while training for "The Dark Knight Rises," has really embraced the plant-based eating plan.
"I don't go the soy-meat route; I have a really plant-based diet," she said. "So I wind up cooking at home a lot. Kale is amazing. Spelt [a kind of wheat] pasta is amazing. I can't do the white-flour stuff. It makes me really ill."
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The slender 5-foot-8 Anne dons a white tank top and black underwear that accentuate her lean thighs. Hathaway, 30, admitted she essentially starved herself to look the part of the emaciated Fantine in the tragedy, "Les Misérables."
"I had to be obsessive about it; the idea was to look near death," Hathaway told Vogue. "Looking back on the whole experience, it was definitely a little nuts. It was definitely a break with reality, but I think that’s who Fantine is anyway."
Anne lost 10 pounds before shooting began, and then lost another 15 pounds during a two-week break in filming by eating only two thin squares of dried oatmeal paste a day. Hathaway's competitive personality enabled her to stick to her extreme low-calorie diet.
"I like to fight for a job," she says. "You feel like you've emerged from the scrap, and you're like, 'OK, this one's mine. Did it. Done.' "
Transforming herself physically is nothing new for the dedicated Anne, who worked out five days a week to play Catwoman in "The Dark Knight Rises." In addition to gym workouts, Hathaway underwent stunt training, did strength exercises as well as 90 minutes of dance every day.
Anne, who switched to a vegan diet while training for "The Dark Knight Rises," has really embraced the plant-based eating plan.
"I don't go the soy-meat route; I have a really plant-based diet," she said. "So I wind up cooking at home a lot. Kale is amazing. Spelt [a kind of wheat] pasta is amazing. I can't do the white-flour stuff. It makes me really ill."
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NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
how the fuck don't you understand why a disabled person - a human fucking being - would want autonomy and independence like any other regular person? you are fucking clueless. this is not a societal issue, this is a human need, how does someone not grasp this? keep fighting for the rights~ of animals because you clearly have no clue when it comes to your fellow man.
imagine being dependent. really imagine it. close your eyes and try to go to the bathroom and imagine having to have someone lead you around for the rest of your life. people in wheelchairs get talked down to and treated like they're retarded and blind people get patronized, and if you don't think that a human carer would patronize them and wind up having people talk to THEM instead of the blind person, you're kidding yourself. people would ask the carer questions, they'd defer to the guide, the guide would step in for them because humans are flawed and often paternalistic, and the blind person would be constantly in a state of childish dependence. it's infantilizing. it's a creepy BDSM ageplay scenario without the safeword.
dignity is so, so important. having a human lead you around- that's the ultimate in debasement. with a dog, the person makes their own decisions, with nobody to defer to. nobody else to consult. a grown-ass adult gets to keep being a grown-ass adult without needing say-so.
stop looking at it as how things SHOULD be, or talking about how people SHOULD see things. just see them for what they are. you'd feel horrible if you needed a babysitter for the rest of your life. you would, wouldn't you? when my sister had partial paralysis last year, the trauma of her husband having to clean her was worse than the pain. that's how humans are. that's how we always will be. we value our dignity, that's an essential part of the human spirit.
empowering the disabled is all about that- power. giving them their own power, not interfering elves to lead them around on leashes. guide animals do that: they not only let the person make their own choices, but it gives them a companion with all the soul-feeding benefits of owning a pet. it lets them own a pet in a way the might not be able to do normally, and god, i wouldn't begrudge that to anyone. hell, a dog would need special training to be compatible with a blind owner.
i do acknowledge though that companion animals who are trained as guides benefits both the companion animal as well as the disabled person. it's great for both involved.
this is really true and i didn't take it into consideration before you pointed it out. i think what you just said is the crux for why we have to have guide companion animals. you really have opened my eyes to many more reasons for the need of and reliance upon companion animals. i'm eternally grateful for this conversation tbh now i feel a lot more comfortable about guide animals since a guide robot isn't a reality for some people. i think this is why socialism needs to happen more so people don't have to worry about how much the robot would cost, and people need to stop not listening to the voice of the disabled with their concerns over dignity, respect, and autonomy and help create choices for ALL disabled people, including disabled people who are vegan. until then, there has to be some exceptions as you've pointed out :)
Also, it's hard in a country where the mere suggestion of regulation in an industry pisses about 50% of the population off to advocate for changes to how we treat animals, so I give you props for doing so. I wish the country could have a modern The Jungle moment, but we've become so systemically detached from the production of our food that it's difficult to imagine how that could happen.