Faye Dunaway is 75 years old and she has a history of eccentric behavior, but this story made me sad. Dunaway was invited to this year’s Cannes Film Festival to attend some red carpets, especially the amfAR gala last Thursday night. I didn’t realize that they actually serve food at the amfAR gala, although that makes sense. I mean, of course they feed people. I guess I just thought that people probably don’t eat much. And as it turns out, Faye Dunaway didn’t want to eat too much. She brought a food scale to the gala and she was discreetly weighing her food.
Hollywood film legend Faye Dunaway arrived at amfAR’s star-studded gala in Cannes, France, with the most unusual accessory — a scale to weigh her food and calculate her calories. Famously feisty Dunaway appeared at a table at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc with film producer Tova Laiter, and a bulging paper bag. Then, a spy said, “She sat at her dinner table and pulled out the scale from a paper bag.”
The stick-thin screen siren then proceeded to weigh all her food — including her leafy salad. The “Chinatown” actress, 75, “asked for a very bland meal,” a spy at the event said, “which she then proceeded to weigh. She weighed all of her food, including her salad and fish, before eating. We’ve seen a lot of stars make strange requests, but this was a sight.”
You know why this makes me sad? Because I hope that if and when I reach the age of 75, I will not really give a sh-t about how much my food weighs. If I make it to 75, I’m eating the cupcakes. And the French fries. And the prime rib. While it’s totally possible that she was weighing her food for some medical reason – the request for bland food might be a clue there – it’s also possible that after a lifetime of Hollywood diets, Faye Dunaway is still on a diet at her age. And that’s depressing.
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