Christina Ricci hates feeling insecure

Christina Ricci sees maintaining her figure as a pressure she, not the industry, puts on herself. The actress — whose teenage weight fluctuations and battle with anorexia were well documented in the press — says she likes to stay slim for herself.

“I’ve been doing this for a really long time and I used to hate feeling insecure. It’s the worst feeling in the world. So, I do a lot of things in advance so that I know I won’t have to feel like crap about myself,” she said.

“I think probably, in my late twenties, I became a lot more like, I’ll do what I can to make sure I look the way I like to look. But in the end, there’s only so much you can do and I’m not going to punish myself because I don’t look like the average person in a bikini.”

Ricci — who stars in new TV show Pan Am — then discussed why she’s turned to the small screen.

“They don’t make as many movies as they used to, so it’s a lot harder now and there’s no mid-range either,” she said.

“They either make these huge, big-budget ones or these tiny ones that may never see the light of day, or with some really unscrupulous people who take you to some far out location and then all of a sudden you get there and you’re like, ‘Who am I trapped out here with?’ So, it’s kind of difficult. And you know some of the best writing is on television, and I have to say, I spend most of my time watching TV. For years I’ve been saying I wanted to do television.”

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