Raven-Symoné has been vocal about her fluctuating body weight. The View co-host recently admitted that she was pressured to stay slim during her stint as a child star, but it seems that wasn't always the case. On yesterday's show, she revealed that the ABC Family show State of Georgia actually made her wear a "fat suit" because she had lost too much weight.
"It’s funny because I feel when I lost my weight, like big-girl season came,” she told her View co-panelists. “It was like so many big girls that are now famous and I was over here, starving.”
"You don't even know what I went through," she continued, as co-panelist Whoopi Goldberg shared her own work struggles after slimming down. "I wouldn't get my show unless I looked a certain way, things of that nature."
She then claimed that State of Georgia, which premiered in 2011, "had me wear a fat suit because they said I wasn't the size they wanted me to be."
Here's a photo of the actress from 2011.
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And here she is the same year, in a still from State of Georgia.
Her body shape isn't dramatically different, so it's difficult to tell just how much padding was added. ABC Family, meanwhile, has yet to comment.
OPENER IMAGE: MediaPunch/Rex USA.
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