Charlize Theron stars in the new dramatic comedy Tully. The 43-year-old actress, who gained 50 pounds for her role, stepped out looking slim in a pair of blue workout pants on Tuesday in Los Angeles. In a recent interview with
ET, Charlize revealed that it took nearly a year and half to lose the weight she gained for the film. The movie, set to hit theaters on May 4, follows Marlo—an exhausted mother-of-three who is gifted a night nanny named Tully. wanted to feel what this woman felt, and I think that was a way for me to get closer to her and get into that mindset,' she told Kevin Frazer. You know, it was a huge surprise to me. I got hit in the face pretty hard with depression for the first time in my life. I was eating so much processed foods and I drank way too much sugar. I was not that fun to be around. his is not the first time that Charlize has transformed her body for a movie role. ack in 2003, she gained a significant amount of weight for the drama Monster. But shedding the excess pounds proved to be much easier in her twenties. I was worried. I was like, this is taking a really long time,' she told ET. 'Because on Monster I just didn't snack for five days and I was fine. You know your body at 27 is a little different than your body at 43, and my doctor made sure to make me very aware of that. Even Theron's young children noticed that their mom looked different....
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My little one was convinced that I had a baby in my belly,' she laughed. 'And [my kids] still refer to this movie as the movie where mommy had a big belly. Charlize is a single mom to two adopted children—Jackson, six, and August, age three....
