Actress Delta Burke recently admitted to using methamphetamine to lose weight.
He Designing women the star went to glamorous trash podcast to discuss her 1998 memoir, diet culture, and society’s criticisms of women’s bodies.
During her conversation with host Chelsea Devantez, Burke revealed that while studying acting in London, she was prescribed pills that “made her heart race” but helped her lose weight.
However, when he returned to the U.S. and asked his doctor to represcribe him, he discovered that the medications, which were called “Black Beauties,” were actually illegal.
while filming Filthy rich In the 1980s, Burke was able to find a connection that landed him more Black Beauties. When taken in the morning, the pills helped Burke lose his appetite during the day.
“They were like medicine to me,” he said. “It wasn’t something recreational.”
However, after taking them for some time, Burke developed a tolerance to them. Then a co-star recommended he try methamphetamine.
Actress Delta Burke admitted to taking methamphetamine to lose weight
Once Black Beauties stopped working for her, Burke turned to methamphetamine, which she knew nothing about.
“Nobody knew about meth at the time,” he told Devantez. “[They told me,] ‘You cut it. You snort. I said, ‘I don’t want to snort it.’ So I put it in cranberry juice and [drank] “I… and I didn’t eat for five days.”
Even after taking such a strong and dangerous drug simply to achieve a certain look, it was still not enough.
“They still said, ‘Your butt is too big.’ “Your legs are too big,” she said. “And now I look at those photos and say, ‘I was a fucking goddess.'”
The pressure and criticism Burke received on the set of Filthy rich ultimately made her leave the show. Her inability to handle her stress in turn made her feel weak.
“I thought I was stronger. I tried so hard to defend myself against the lies and all the ugliness that was there and I wasn’t going to win. I’m just an actress, you know? “I have no power,” Burke said.
“I wish I had known, I wish all young women could know, that she is beautiful,” she said. “She has power and she doesn’t know it because she doesn’t want you to know it.”
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