{"id":148470,"date":"2025-02-06T06:22:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T06:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/kristin-davis-was-told-not-to-gain-weight-while-on-melrose-place\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T06:22:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T06:22:40","slug":"kristin-davis-was-told-not-to-gain-weight-while-on-melrose-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/kristin-davis-was-told-not-to-gain-weight-while-on-melrose-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristin Davis Was Told Not to &#8216;Gain Weight&#8217; While on Melrose Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div wp_automatic_readability=\"113.07166194729\">\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ????><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ????><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3791900\" style=\"width: 900px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:132.57142857143%;\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Kristin Davis<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">XNY\/Star Max\/GC Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/kristin-davis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Kristin Davis<\/strong><\/a> says that she was told not to gain weight while starring on <i>Melrose Place<\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Davis, 59, appeared on the Fox primetime soap from 1995 to 1996, and would later join the cast of HBO\u2019s <i>Sex and The City<\/i> \u2014\u00a0the most iconic credit on her acting resume.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But before stepping into Charlotte York\u2019s stilettos, Davis played <em>Melrose Place<\/em> villain Brooke Armstrong and <\/span><span class=\"s1\">struggled with the pressure to live up to unrealistic body standards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Davis <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/kristin-davis-was-told-not-to-gain-weight-while-on-melrose-place-exclusive-8786502\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\">told <i>People<\/i><\/span><\/a> in an interview published on Wednesday, February 5, that one time, her costar <strong>Thomas Calabro<\/strong> approached her while she was in her makeup trailer and revealed some disturbing news.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cHe\u2019s like, \u2018Kristin, I\u2019m so happy to see you here,&#8217;\u201d she recalled Calabro, 66, saying. \u201c\u2018I just wanna tell you, you know, I think you look great,\u2019 and I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh, thank you. What are you talking about? What do you mean?\u2019 He said, \u2018Oh, I know that the producers are really stressed, you know, but I just think it\u2019s amazing that we have a woman who has curves.&#8217;\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Davis was confused.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI just think they shouldn\u2019t, you know, put too much pressure on you,\u201d Calabro reportedly said, to which Davis responded, \u201cWhat?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Following their exchange, \u201cI go to the line producer and I\u2019m like, \u2018Thomas Calabro just told me that you guys are stressing about my weight. Did someone say something? Did Mr. [<strong>Aaron<\/strong>] <strong>Spelling<\/strong> say something?\u2019 And he was like, \u2018We think you look beautiful,\u2019 and I was like, \u2018Yeah, and?\u2019 He goes, \u2018Just don\u2019t gain any weight,\u2019\u201d Davis remembered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">She said that monitoring actors\u2019 weight on set was \u201cnormal for a long time. You could look at it either way. But I mean, there was a lot of stress. If you had hips, it was a situation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Besides Calabro, Davis\u2019 <i>Melrose Place<\/i> costars included <strong>Heather Locklear<\/strong> and <strong>Courtney Thorne-Smith<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThere was a general vibe on the set though, that was difficult, about the thinness situation,\u201d she revealed in her <i>People<\/i> interview, adding, \u201cEvery single person was gorgeous and super skinny. So I was like, \u2018This is what I have to do.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \" wp_automatic_readability=\"8.5\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\" wp_automatic_readability=\"7\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to the outlet, Davis started running with a trainer and took 90-minute spin classes back to back.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI was frustrated. I was trying to do the thing,\u201d she said. \u201cOf course, I\u2019m sure I wasn\u2019t eating, I have no idea. I don\u2019t remember the eating part.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Once Davis felt dizzy and \u201cfainted in a parking lot,\u201d and other times she couldn\u2019t remember her name. \u201cIt was a lot,\u201d she said. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-body\/news\/kristin-davis-was-told-not-to-gain-weight-while-on-melrose-place\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristin Davis XNY\/Star Max\/GC Images Kristin Davis says that she was told not to gain weight while starring on Melrose Place.\u00a0 Davis, 59, appeared on the Fox primetime soap from 1995 to 1996, and would later join the cast of HBO\u2019s Sex and The City \u2014\u00a0the most iconic credit on her acting resume.\u00a0 But before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-148470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}