{"id":279646,"date":"2026-02-12T01:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T01:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/279646\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T01:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T01:34:08","slug":"margot-robbie-says-male-actor-once-gave-her-weight-loss-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/279646\/","title":{"rendered":"Margot Robbie Says Male Actor Once Gave Her Weight Loss Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

As she gears up for her return to the big screen, Margot Robbie<\/a> is opening up about the unsolicited advice she received early in her career from a fellow actor. <\/p>\n

Sitting down with pop musician Charli XCX<\/a> for Complex\u2019s latest \u201cGOAT Talk\u201d video interview, Robbie didn\u2019t miss a beat when she was asked about the worst gift she\u2019d ever received. <\/p>\n

\u201cVery, very early in my career, an actor I worked with \u2015 a male actor \u2015 gave me a book called \u2018Why French Women Don\u2019t Get Fat,\u2019 and it was essentially a book telling you to eat less. I was like, \u2018Whoa \u2015 fuck you, dude!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

She went on to note, \u201cHe essentially gave me a book to tell me I should lose weight. I was like, \u2018Wow.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Robbie was referring<\/a> to \u201cFrench Women Don\u2019t Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure\u201d by Mireille Guiliano. According to a synopsis on Guiliano\u2019s official website<\/a>, the 2004 book \u201creveals the ingredients for a lifetime of weight control,\u201d and \u201cshows how virtually anyone can learn to eat, drink, and move like a French woman.\u201d <\/p>\n

Robbie, however, appeared to have the last laugh. After Charli XCX pressed the \u201cBarbie\u201d star for details on which actor had given her the book, she shrugged. <\/p>\n

Watch Margot Robbie\u2019s Complex chat with Charli XCX below. Her remarks on the worst gift she\u2019s ever received start around the 11:56 mark. <\/p>\n

\u201cI have no idea where he would even be now,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is really back in the day.\u201d <\/p>\n

Robbie stars alongside Jacob Elordi<\/a> in Emerald Fennell\u2019s new adaptation of Emily Bront\u00eb\u2019s \u201cWuthering Heights<\/a>,\u201d in theaters Friday. Hot off the success of her era-defining 2024 album, \u201cBrat,\u201d Charli XCX provides the new film\u2019s soundtrack. <\/p>\n

\u201cWuthering Heights\u201d has been adapted for the big screen numerous times, most notably in 1939<\/a> with Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier, and in 1992<\/a>, with Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes. Still, Robbie hopes audiences will be surprised by the new version, which she described to British Vogue<\/a> as \u201ca big epic romance\u201d in the vein of \u201cThe English Patient\u201d and \u201cTitanic.\u201d <\/p>\n

As for Elordi, it sounds as if he\u2019s a more thoughtful gift-giver than the unnamed actor of Robbie\u2019s past. Speaking to USA Today<\/a> this week, Robbie said her co-star tried to stay in character by filling her dressing room with roses on Valentine\u2019s Day as they were filming, and later surprised her with a curated box of snacks from their native Australia. <\/p>\n

\u201cHis dad brought it over from Australia, and the nice thing was that [he] remembered all of my favorite things that I said in passing,\u201d she recalled. \u201cI\u2019m a very simple creature. Just give me some food.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"MargotMargot Robbie and Jacob Elordi star in the new adaptation of “Wuthering Heights,” which hits theaters Feb. 13. <\/p>\n

Rodin Eckenroth via Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As she gears up for her return to the big screen, Margot Robbie is opening up about the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[23914,430,156,18566,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-279646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-body-positivity","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-margot-robbie","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}