Nikki Blonsky

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12 minutes ago, tomorrowcomestoday said:

Her Instagram is full of awesome tidbits and pics (though she's quite aware of her weight gain and takes great pains to hide herself from the shoulder down), which is nice because when she first started the thing it was rather sad — every post was prefaced with "I'm Nikki Blonsky from Hairspray!". She still pops up in movies now and then, like her role in Burt Reynolds "The Last Movie Star", but ironically her weight isn't her biggest obstacle in getting work. She, like Macaulay Culkin and Thora Birch before her, has a particularly heinous "Momager" that acts as her agent and is supposed to be running her career, but instead is acting as a stumbling block for casting directors. Her role in Stuffed! was a big red flag... she didn't even make it to opening weekend, getting replaced at the last minute by her understudy. Articles about the incident mention a mystery illness that kept her from getting "sufficient rehearsal time", but Lampanelli's mentioned in podcasts about how difficult Mama Blonsky was to work with... so you connect the dots.

 

Still, the eye candy is there for those who want it. And she still hosts regular Instagram lives where she just chats and eat donuts, so the material is certainly there. Hopefully she'll eventually ditch the idiot mother and actively try to get work herself.

Meddling parents and a constant reminder of weight are a double whammy for a definite no go/no fly zone.