By David Mccormack For Dailymail. Living legend Candice Bergen says at 68 she is happy being fat and lives to eat. At 68 and after a full and varied career which has taken in modeling for Vogue, an Oscar-nomination and countless Emmys for her hit TV show Murphy Brown, Candice Bergen says she is happy being fat and now lives to eat. In her new memoir, A Fine Romance, the living legend estimates she has put on 30 pounds in the past 15 years, but says she simply doesn't care.
I have put on 30 pounds. I live to eat. None of this "eat to live" stuff for me. I am a champion eater. No carb is safe โ no fat, either,' she readily admits. A woman near me looked at me, appalled, and I thought, "I don't care,"' she writes. Women over 50 typically have to choose between preserving either their face or their butts and she writes that she has happily chosen the former.
Her skinny friends and their constant battles to remain thin only reinforce her belief that she is doing what is right for her.
The brutally honest appraisal of her current weight is just one of the topics up for discussioin in her new book, which comes out on April 7, reports Vogue. The follow-up to her memoir Knock Wood, A Fine Romance focuses on her year marriage to French director Louis Malle who died of cancer in and her career-defining role as funny, feisty career woman and TV news reporter Murphy Brown.
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The hit TV show ran for ten seasons between and and Bergen was nominated for an Emmy Award seven times, winning five. After her fifth win, Bergen declined future nominations for the role. Initially she writes that she wasn't thrilled at the idea of acting in a TV show, but after reading the script she realized it was 'written for me. She was big, she was brassy, she was fearless. Bergen was nominated for an Emmy Award seven times, winning five, for her role as Murphy Brown, left.
