Gemma Arterton filmed exercising by bosses to prove weight loss
Women in the public eye face a huge amount of pressure to prescribe to standardised beauty ideals, and being slim is often one of them.
Gemma Arterton has shed some light on the horrific pressure she has felt in the film industry.
The actress has claimed that she was forced to lose weight by film bosses after they sent her a live-in personal trainer who would film her exercising as evidence for the producers.
'There was one film that I was on and we were out in Morocco and a couple of weeks went past and they literally were like “We need a personal trainer – stat,' she told The Guilty Feminist podcast in June.
‘And they flew someone out overnight that gave up their whole life to be with me and be my personal trainer.'
'They’d measure me and they’d call up the personal trainer at like nine and night going: “Is she in the gym? And if she isn’t, why isn’t she in the gym?' she continued.
‘And then they’d get me in the gym and film me in the gym and they’d have to know that I was there.'
She also told The Guilty Feminist panel how a producer attempted to shame her out of eating healthy snacks while filming.
'There was one day when I went to get some snacks, they have like snacks on set, and I went to get some apricots, some dried apricots, and the man went, this big, fat, obese producer went: “I hope you’re not going to eat that.'
Thankfully, Gemma paid him no heed, saying: 'I’m going to eat about all twenty, then I’m going to go home and eat all the stuff in the mini bar and then I’m going to vomit it all up.'
