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Most women would kill for Kyra Sedgwick’s body. (Most men, too.) But in a recent interview with More magazine, the petite Golden Globes-winning star of TV’s “The Closer” said she has struggled with weight and food issues over the years.
Kyra, 44, said she particularly suffered with body image problems when first starting out in show biz. That was when she portrayed a Holocaust survivor in Israeli director Moshe Mizrahi’s 1985 film “War and Love,” requiring that she drop 20 pounds for the role.
“Food has never been easy for me. I came back from that [role], and it triggered something,” she said. “I ate everything in sight. My weight went up and then too far down.”
So how did Kyra fix it and become so svelte? She threw away her scale, which is something that she says has helped her ever since.
“I’m so grateful that I don’t get on a scale,” she said, “because it’s never going to be the right number.”
Ms. Sedgwick also spoke candidly in the interview about how Bernie Madoff’s infamous Ponzi scheme affected her and her husband of 21 years, Kevin Bacon, 51. Like many others, they took a pretty good beating from the convicted money manager and lost a lot of dough.
”I laughed,” she said. “I just couldn’t believe it. It’s awful, and it’s really sad and infuriating. … [But] you know what it’s shattered my trust in? The government taking care of us. The S.E.C. knew – they knew.
But in the long run, Kyra takes it all in stride. “There are a lot of people who are so much worse off than we are. He’s a sick man.”
Amen, sister.