Mar 13 2006Dennis Quaid used to be manorexic
In a refreshing change of pace from the latest story of a young female celebrity battling with the pressures of staying thin to avoid fat jokes, Dennis Quaid tells Best Life magazine about his own battle with anorexia in the mid-90's.
"My arms were so skinny that I couldn't pull myself out of a pool," Quaid, 51, told Best Life, as excerpted Friday in the New York Post. But the Day After Tomorrow star couldn't connect with the 138-pound frame in the mirror. He still saw himself as 180 pounds, he said, describing a common part of anorexia.
Quaid tells the magazine that the manorexia started while preparing to play Doc Holliday in 1994 Costner-helmed Wyatt Earp, losing 40 pounds for the role. Unfortunately, this was before it was common knowledge that, to be a successful Doc Holliday, one must simply be named Val Kilmer. Or at the very least, be able to say "I'll be your Huckleberry" in a badass accent. Plus Dennis was way too fat to play the role anyways.
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Reader Comments
1. maggixial - March 13, 2006 2:13 PM
it's just not interesting when guys do it.
2. Spindoc - March 13, 2006 2:16 PM
Oh Please, he's had a washboard stomache and zero % body fat for years. Blaming it on that movie is just dumb.
3. BarbadoSlim - March 13, 2006 2:50 PM
one word:
GAY
4. amma - March 13, 2006 2:51 PM
What I want to know is what really happened with Meg? Heard tell he was trying to get his new wife into spouse swapping claiming that he and Ryan did it all the time.
Its too bad, he's been in some good flicks, but his personal life is just blech.
5. happy_bunny - March 13, 2006 2:54 PM
When he was on Inside the Actors Studio, James Lipton asked him how he stays in such great shape. Quaid said, "it's just genes." B.S.; His brother Randy doesn't look like that.
Disclaimer: I'm not saying anorexia = "in shape."
6. mamacita - March 13, 2006 3:01 PM
I'd also like to know what the heck went on with him and Meg. They both say it was 'unhealthy', but what the hell was it? Also,I'd have to say that this is the first time I've ever heard a guy actually come out and say that he had anorexia. Am I alone in that?
7. prideofchucky - March 13, 2006 3:16 PM
"Unfortunately, this was before it was common knowledge that, to be a successful Doc Holliday, one must simply be named Val Kilmer."
Haha-True that! His Batman kinda sucked but Val nailed that part!
8. mamacita - March 13, 2006 3:17 PM
I actually know someone who named their kid Wyatt Huckleberry. Can you imagine the beatings that kids gonna take?
9. BarbadoSlim - March 13, 2006 3:31 PM
Yup, Val WAS Doc Hol, however he was at his best in Top Secret, just like the best Tom Hanks was in Bachelor Party ...you know this to be true.
10. prideofchucky - March 13, 2006 3:48 PM
Hey Barbado:
"How do we know you're not Mel Torme?"
11. lysistrata11 - March 13, 2006 3:49 PM
#5-I thought he and Randy were cousins...?
This story is pretty boring since Quaid has been a nobody since the mid-nineties anyway.
12. Spindoc - March 13, 2006 3:54 PM
Seems like he could have killed two birds with one stone if he just sucked the fat out of his body and then shot it into Meg's Lips. Would have made them both happy.
13. Realistic - March 13, 2006 4:26 PM
GROSS!!!!!!!! Manorexia makes you look like Robin Williams!!!!
14. BarbadoSlim - March 13, 2006 5:16 PM
#10 hahahahahaha...nah I'm not Mel Torme, I did feel a certain sense of Deja Vu as I read your post...have we not met before, monsieur?
15. SmashleyofSC - March 13, 2006 5:25 PM
There is no better line than "I'll be your Huckelberry." I had a crush on Val Kilmer for like 3 years just because of that line. So hot.
16. HughJorganthethird - March 13, 2006 5:54 PM
fat ass
17. happy_bunny - March 13, 2006 6:01 PM
#11 - IMDB says they're brothers.
http://imdb.com/name/nm0000598/bio
18. Daniel - March 13, 2006 6:34 PM
Some brothers look a lot alike and others.....not really. Y'ever see Don Swayze, Patrick's brother? Yeeesh. Just a couple of chromosomes away from stardom.
19. gogoboots - March 13, 2006 7:10 PM
Boring, show us some female anorexics and im all over it!
20. MeganHarris - March 13, 2006 7:15 PM
Val Kilmer was a bad ass Doc Holloday.
Matter of fact we need to buy Tombstone.
21. Shovel00 - March 13, 2006 8:25 PM
poor man's Harrison Ford, he is
22. trophywife - March 13, 2006 8:29 PM
I have loved Dennis Quaid since I knew what to do with my naughty bits. I would hit it over and over until he'd pass out. Manmeat... mmmmmmm
23. Fatty Boom-Batty - March 14, 2006 1:59 AM
Nice beret, faggot. Why don't you make another family friendly comedy?
24. breakitdown - March 14, 2006 2:21 AM
i like this site usually but makin fun of someone that has anorexia is really plain fuked up. seriously posting on a site about famous successful people is very lame.
25. Fatty Boom-Batty - March 14, 2006 4:14 AM
#24 Eat a dick and die. GO SOMEWHERE FUCKING ELSE!
26. Fatty Boom-Batty - March 14, 2006 5:08 AM
breakitdown, If I could I'd make fun of someone that has AIDS or cancer or something like that. That way all those misunderstood people with anorexia wouldn't feel bad about themselves. Unfortunatly, I don't know anybody worth making fun of with AIDS, and since Sheryl Crow's own life and career do a good enough job of ridiculing her, I don't have to make fun of her for having cancer. Don't get me wrong...I WANT to make fun of her for having cancer, it's just that it isn't necessary.
27. SoupaSarah - March 14, 2006 8:58 AM
thats in very bad taste. What if your mum had cancer or something, you wouldnt want someone to make fun of her.
28. lux - March 14, 2006 10:07 AM
wow BarbadoSLIM, I can't help but notice you're calling dennis quaid gay for having an eating disorder that makes him want to be slim.
nice nickname, by the way.
unless you're just making a lame attempt to have some sort of coolguy nickname like "slim" shady. in which case.. HAHAHAHA.
29. BarbadoSlim - March 14, 2006 10:56 AM
...hehe, posting on an internet forum doesn't make me or anyone "cool"
still, feel free to kiss my slim caribbean ass...
30. Spindoc - March 14, 2006 11:44 AM
#24,
how could you like this site usually but not like this post. This post is the most tame one on the page at the moment. Sounds like you're just trying to cause trouble. AS for making fun of somebody with Anorexia, did somebody cough on them and they caught it? Ooops, no, they didn't. Bitney gets fat and gets made fun of and Dennis gets skinny and gets made fun of...ahhhhh, equality rocks!
31. Little Miss Can't Be wrong - March 14, 2006 2:04 PM
Umm, wasn't he addicted to cocaine around that time? It may be fashionable to whine about a health "crisis" but I think the piles of blow he was Hoovering probably had a lot to do with it....
"A lot of cocaine has gone up Quaid's nose, but he kicked his addiction in 1988. 'I saw myself being dead in about five years if I didn't stop. So I went and got help. I went away for a month.'"
What an Asshat!
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