Cats star, Rebel Wilson, has revealed that she has been "paid a lot of money to be bigger" at times in her career by film bosses.

The actress, who famously played Fat Amy in the Pitch Perfect films, said that attitude in the film industry can "mess with your head a bit" and she's been trying to figure that all out herself.

"Weirdly this year was always going to be the year of health. I've been naming my years now, and, that's kind of having these resolutions but for the whole year," she told The Sun.

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"I turned 40 as well in March and so I thought, this is gonna be it. This is going to be the year for me to just concentrate on the health benefits.

"It's not like I want to lose weight and get to around a certain number.

"It's more than that, it's about dealing mentally with with why I was overeating and I had a job where I was paid a lot of money to be bigger, at times which kind of can mess with your head a bit."

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"So now I'm just trying to work on the mental side and the physical job and doing a lot of personal training.

"And on the nutrition side like, it's cool I should probably write a book at some point about it because people seem to be interested."


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