Alanis Morissette
Alexandra Paul
Ally Sheedy
Amy Heckerling
Ana Carolina Reston
Anna Freud
Anne Murray
Anne Sexton
Ashlee Simpson
Audrey Hepburn
Barbara Niven
Barbi Twins
Calista Flockhart
Carre Otis
Catherine Bell
Catherine Oxenberg
Cathy Rigby
Christine Alt
Christy Henrich
Courtney Thorne-Smith
Cynthia French
Daniel Johns
Dawn Langstroth
Elisa Donovan
Elton John
Felicity Huffman
Fiona Apple
Franz Kafka
Gelsey Kirkland
Geri Halliwell
Heidi Guenther
Jamie-Lynn Sigler
Jane Fonda
Janet Jackson
Joan Rivers
Justine Bateman
Karen Carpenter
Kate Bosworth
Kate Dillon
Kate Winslet
Katharine McPhee
Kellie Martin
Keira Knightley
Kirsten Dunst
Leila Pahlavi
Magali Amadei
Margaux Hemmingway
Maria Conchita
Mariah Carey
Mary Kate Olsen
Mary McDonough
Melanie Chisholm
Meredith Vieira
Nadia Comaneci
Nicole Richie
Nikki Cox
Oprah Winfrey
Paula Abdul
Peta Wilson
Portia de Rossi
Princess Diana
Renee Zellweger
Richard Simmons
Sally Field
Sandra Dee
Scarlett Pomers
Sharon Osbourne
Susan Dey
Syliva
Teri Hatcher
Thandie Newton
Theresa Marie "Terri" Schiavo
Tracey Gold
Victoria Beckham
Whitney-Houston
Wynonna Judd
Yeardley Smith
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In September, Bateman went public
for the first time with the revelation that she had suffered from bouts of
anorexia, bulimia and compulsive overeating while making "Family Ties.'' "I had a horrible body
image,'' she said in one interview. She says teenage fame made her become a bulimic. She talked about how she turned her life
around with a 12-step program and became a born-again Christian, despite
worrying that her conversion would mean wearing skirts over her knees and having
"no personality.'' Alarmed at how the eating
disorders and her faith in God became the headlines over her profiles, Bateman
now declines to talk about them. "I will say that there's a
freedom in my performing now, an element of fearlessness that I didn't have
before,'' she said. "And that stems from me knowing who I am and having a total
assurance about how things will go. That's the upshot.'' Who she is is offbeat. Bateman
dabbles in performance art at such hipster hangouts as the Viper Room and writes
poetry. A sample holiday poem: "All the
tinsel's melting down the tree/The bulbs explode in prickly sparks/Melting,
melting, silvery mess/Pouring over boughs/Dripping off the end/A tiny Santa head
is covered and stuck like a dog in Pompeii.'' Or take the performance piece in
which Bateman, dressed like a cowboy, stands in the center of the stage pulling
strands off six toilet paper rolls one by one, collecting the wad of toilet
paper under her arm, while saying, "Come to me! Come to me!'' (She represents America and the
toilet paper immigrants from other countries. The piece is about overpopulation,
she said.) "I love performance art because
it's so open-ended,'' she explained. "You're making a living collage, and part
of the fun is how different people watching you fill in the blanks differently.
They really become a participant in a way that's unusual in art.''
Copyright Lubbock
Avalanche-Journal 1996
The former Family Ties star made a lot of rules for herself:
"I can have one more cookie if I go throw it all up later. Or I can have this now if I skip lunch later," she said in the Nov. 9 edition of the U.S. TV Guide.
"I'm talking mainly about doing stuff like not eating when I'm hungry. Or eating more than I really want to and then trying to get rid of it."
Bateman said she was sure people knew. "In fact, when they'd say, 'You look anorexic,' I'd take it as a compliment."
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