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"\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\n\n\nWe've been fans of Anne Hathaway since her Princess Diaries days, so we were totally shocked to see her malnourished new look in the upcoming film Les Miserable.In a recent interview, Hathaway admitted that she dropped 25 pounds off her already teeny frame for the role. She did it by eating only two squares of dried oatmeal paste per a day (um, gross). While she looked appropriately underfed to play the prostitute Fantine, Hathaway says that the weight loss became an obsession. \"I was in such a state of deprivation\u2014physical and emotional. When I got home, I couldn't react to the chaos of the world without being overwhelmed,\" she says. (We get cranky if we miss lunch, so we can only imagine how rage-y she must have been after eating practically nothing.)Anne isn't the first celeb\u2014and won't be the last\u2014to go to such drastic measures for a role: Matthew McConaughey made himself scary-skinny to play a man afflicted with AIDS for the upcoming film The Dallas Buyers Club, Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis famously shed pounds to play prima ballerinas in Black Swan, and Beyonc\u00E9 fasted on a liquid diet to prep for Dreamgirls.While going to extremes for a role is admirable, we're not sure it's worth the havoc that rapid weight loss wrecks on your body. Studies show that starving yourself can slow your metabolism, cause depression, and even screw up the function of your bodily organs. On the more cosmetic level, losing too much weight can cause your body to sprout fur-like hair, plus yo-yoing in weight can give you stretch marks. Yeah\u2026not too pretty.So, if you want to slim down a bit before the holidays, focus on eating well and hitting the gym. It's so much better for you\u2014and your body."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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