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You thought celebs using Ozempic for weight loss was too far? Delta Burke did meth, y’all!
For those who haven’t had the pleasure of watching her fabulous, funny, and twice-Emmy-nominated turn as Suzanne Sugarbaker on Designing Women, Delta was a huge TV star in the ’80s and ’90s. Unfortunately the biz was even less accepting of different body types for women at that time. And the pressure to keep the weight off led her to try all kinds of things.
Opening up on the most recent episode of the Glamorous Trash podcast, Delta explained how it began with a prescription for weight-loss pills during drama school in London. But whatever she was on turned out to be ILLEGAL in the US!
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So when she came home, she started taking Black Beauties, a capsule of 10 mg each of amphetamine and dextroamphetamine. She was told to “take them in the morning so you won’t eat”:
But it wasn’t medicine. It was speed. And her body eventually built up a tolerance. Delta was starring on a short-lived TV show called Filthy Rich at the time, and a colleague recommended she take something a little harder: meth. She didn’t even know how bad what she was doing was:
OMG. So dangerous! But for Hollywood, forever trying to put her into a very specific box, as they do with all women, it wasn’t enough. She recalled being told she needed to lose more weight:
Damn straight she was!
She went on to slay on five seasons of Designing Women, but even on such a feminist show she was still being pressured — even if from the outside — to slim down. Eventually, she says, she was “emotionally too fragile” to handle the “incredibly ugly” things being said about her body:
She added sometimes the pressure would
People in parts of Staffordshire have taken part in the local elections 2024 to vote in their councillor.
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“Designing Women” actress, who publicly battled criticism over her appearance, once turned to crystal meth for weight loss. Burke explained on the “Glamorous Trash” podcast that she started taking prescription pills while studying in London, and upon arriving back in the states, discovered her pills were deemed illegal.Once on a set, she found someone to get her more “Black Beauties,” and would take the pill “in the morning so you won’t eat.”“They were like medicine to me,” she told host Chelsea Devantez. Eventually, the pills became less effective as she built up a tolerance, and Burke was offered crystal meth as a substitute.“Nobody knew about crystal meth at the time,” she said.
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