Portia de Rossi talked about her battles for weight loss. That is hard to picture since she has always been gorgeous. However, de Rossi shared a darker side of her life while struggling to make it as a model and actress.

De Rossi said she was an anorexic and bulimic. She had anorexia and bulimia and abused her body. She used fen-phen to experience un-natural weight loss quickie methods.

When she was starting out to make a name for herself, de Rossi had image issues and fought against her weight to appear slimmer. De Rossi used to hide her sexual orientation as she was afraid she would lose her acting jobs in Hollywood.