“Yellowjackets” star Melanie Lynskey opened up about the struggles her good friend Brittany Murphy had when she was alive. Speaking with InStyle, she revealed Murphy grappled with body image issues and felt like she had to look picture-perfect all the time. “The way she viewed herself was always really heartbreaking to me—the things she felt she had to change to be a successful actor,” Lynskey said. “She was perfect just as she was, but people were trying to cast her as, like, ‘the fat one,’ because when she was a very young teenager, her cheeks were a little bit round.”
Many of Murphy’s friends share the same sentiment. Shortly after her death, sources told People Murphy had “insane self-image issues,” saying, “Her weight, her hair, her clothes, her skin, her teeth, everything. She was always so self-conscious.” In a separate interview, her “Something Wicked” co-star Robert Blanche said he noticed that Murphy was underweight. “Her weight represented some sort of struggle for her,” he shared. “You don’t want to say, ‘Geez Brittany, you’re too thin,’ but she seemed much too thin.”
Despite her issues, Murphy had always wanted to live a long life. In a 2003 interview with Drew Barrymore in Interview magazine, Murphy was excited about the idea of growing old. “I’d like to be very, very, very, very old… It’s scary, but in the same sense it’s also very exciting,” she mused. “So I would like to be happy and healthy, and live as long as possible.”
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