Lily James Cannot Eat Solid Foods To Fit 'Cinderella' Costume, Denies Her Waist Was Digitally Edited

Lily James, who is set to star in the live action remake of “Cinderella” said she had to stop eating solid foods just to fit into her ice-blue ball gown. The actress said she had to abide with a soup diet or else she would burp all over her co-star’s face. She also refute claims that her waist has been digitally edited for the movie.

E News reports that Lily sacrificed a lot to deliver Cinderella in her famous gown properly. Apart from shooting days without eating properly, she had to forego eating solids altogether just so she could play pretty and elegant Cinderella correctly. "When [the corset] was on we would be on continuous days so we wouldn't stop for lunch or a lovely tea like this -- you'd be sort of eating on the move," Lily said. "In that case, I couldn't untie the corset. So if you ate food it didn't really digest properly and I'd be burping all afternoon in [Richard Madden]'s face and it was just really sort of unpleasant.” Short of starving herself, she just followed a strict liquid diet so that the dress would not be stuck.

On the same interview, she said that she is no way advocating girls to do the same diet or even think that being thin is the only description of being beautiful. Beautiful girls for her are those who are confident and natural. In fact, she said if she is not only doing it to get the job done or rather, fit into the dress, then she would not be not eating. She added that she found it hard not to eat.

Seeing how hard she worked to make her waist fit the dress comfortably, she found it difficult to accept that people would say her waist has been digitally edited for the movie. She told ET Online that she naturally has a tiny waist already and the corset pulls it in even more. The balloon skirt also accentuates her small waist.

In a recent interview with US Weely, the “Downtown Abbey” star also divulged more details with regard the difficulties she had to deal with over the big, bouncy dress. She said putting and getting the dress off could be a “huge break in filming” because it does not take mere seconds or 5 minutes -- it could take 20 minutes to carry out a wardrobe change. The remedy was to use “porta-lou’s” under her skirt. She added that wearing tight corsets could be uncomfortable at times too.

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