Carrie Fisher Was Sent to Fat Farm for Star Wars Movie

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last updated 2 August 2021

Some things never change—they just could be less subtle about it in the 1970s. And the 1990s (opens in new tab). And, hell, the 2010s (opens in new tab). Oh.

In an interview with Stephen Colbert, Princess Diarist Carrie Fisher reveals that she was packed off to a fat farm before filming the first Star Wars. "They want to hire part of me, not all of me," she said. "So they want to hire about three-fourths...so I have to get rid of the fourth somehow."

Then it gets even weirder: Apparently Ann Landers and Lady Bird Johnson were both there as farmers (campers? inmates??) too, the former to push advice on Fisher, and the latter to keep misremembering one of the most popular sci-fi franchises of our time as Car Wash. Sounds like a party—or a sequel.

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Chelsea Peng is a writer and editor who was formerly the assistant editor at MarieClaire.com. She's also worked for The Strategist and Refinery29, and is a graduate of Northwestern University. On her tombstone, she would like a GIF of herself that's better than the one that already exists on the Internet and a free fro-yo machine. Besides frozen dairy products, she's into pirates, carbs, Balzac, and snacking so hard she has to go lie down.