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        <title><![CDATA[Alicia Silverstone recalls ‘hurtful’ body-shaming during ‘Batgirl’]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As if.</p><p><strong>Alicia Silverstone</strong> is opening up in a new interview about how it felt to be publicly body-shamed by tabloids when she starred as Batgirl in the 1997 film, &#8220;Batman &amp; Robin.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;They would make fun of my body when I was younger,” the now 43-year-old <strong>told The Guardian</strong>. “It was hurtful but I knew they were wrong. I wasn’t confused. I knew that it was not right to make fun of someone’s body shape, that doesn’t seem like the right thing to be doing to a human.”</p><p>The actress was fresh off the success of &#8220;Clueless&#8221; and dubbed &#8220;Fatgirl&#8221; by the paparazzi at age 21.</p><p>In a&nbsp;<strong>2018 Vanity Fair interview</strong>, Silverstone said&nbsp;the cruel comments made her want to quit Hollywood.</p><p>“It didn’t make me think, &#8216;Oh yes, I’m going to try really hard to be [what you think I should be],&#8221; she told the publication. &#8220;My response was, ‘Hell no.’ I had no interest in being famous or maintaining any kind of fame. If you told me that acting meant I was going to be called fat and have to do things a certain way, then I was like, ‘F off.’”</p><figure id="attachment_5224211"  class="wp-caption alignright"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/04/alicia-batgirl-02.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/04/alicia-batgirl-02.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/04/alicia-batgirl-02.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>Alicia Silverstone in &#8220;Batman &amp; Robin&#8221;</span><span class="credit">©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett C</span></figcaption></figure><p>The longtime activist said she also recognized that name-calling is minute in comparison to other global issues.</p><p>&#8220;I always go to: there are bigger things in the world, there’s bigger tragedies,” the &#8220;Lodge&#8221; star added.</p><p>Part of her activism includes fighting for animal rights and environmentalism. She has been following a strict vegan diet since she was 21, and has even written two cookbooks, as a result.</p><p>“I remember when I would go on David Letterman and go on Jay Leno and they’d be like ‘Vegan?! What’s a vegan?’ And they would just make a whole fun riff on it because it was like I was an alien, no one was talking about being vegan on television,” Silverstone <strong>told Page Six</strong> in 2018. “I’m just so excited that there are people in the world that see it [now].&#8221;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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