Actor Ivy Snitzer, pictured in 2001, struggled after working as Gwyneth Paltrow's "Shallow Hal" body double. (Vince Bucci / Getty Images) Content warning: This story includes descriptions of eating ...

Ivy Snitzer had always joked about her size, but when it was magnified on the big screen, her insecurities ballooned — and it proved near-fatal. Snitzer was cast as Gwyneth Paltrow’s body double in ...

Gwyneth Paltrow starred alongside Jack Black in Shallow Hal in 2001, and her daughter, Apple, was born in 2004. Perhaps by no coincidence, Shallow Hal director Peter Farrelly had a baby daughter named ...

Gwyneth Paltrow’s “Shallow Hal” body double is reflecting on the near-deadly eating disorder she developed after the 2001 flick saw her become the target of fat-phobic people. It was the body of ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Ivy Snitzer was just a 20-year-old acting student when she was cast to play Gwyneth Paltrow‘s body double in the 2001 comedy Shallow Hal. Though working on the film ...

The premise of Shallow Hal (20 th Century Fox), the new comedy from the Farrelly brothers, is deceptively simple, and deceptively simple surfaces are its subject. The title character (Jack Black), a ...

Save yourself the eight dollars you would've spent seeing Shallow Hal and go sit on Locust Walk and laugh at fat people. It's basically the same thing. Don't get me wrong -- I appreciate inappropriate ...

Gwyneth Paltrow sat down with her assistant and close friend, Kevin Keating, to play a game titled "The BFF Test with Gwyneth Paltrow" Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE Magazine. He began ...

A new era is born.

Content warning: This story includes descriptions of eating disorders. Ivy Snitzer, who played Gwyneth Paltrow's body double in the 2001 film "Shallow Hal," is speaking out about the struggles she has ...