Portia De Rossi - A model and actress who is very insecure with her body. She starves herself right before a modeling show so she can fit in her clothes. Then she eats tons afterward as a comfort. She was pretty much lesbian her whole life but she didn't really realize it until she got married to a man who she thought she loved.
Mel - Her ex husband who left her after he found out she was lesbian. He left her for her brother's wife.
Kali - Portia's neighbor. She was an artist with tattoos and a big vocabulary. She also took Portia to go shopping for her first acting job.
Her mom - She was very supportive of her daughter in whatever she did and she was obsessed with the whole modeling thing since Portia's cousin was a model. She would drive Portia to every modeling job & chaperon.
Michael - Portia's brother that lived with her because his wife left him for Portia's husband. So they lived together so they wouldn't be lonely. He always called her "sissy"
I think that Potia believes she's fat because in reality she's not. But it's pretty sad how her husband left with Portia's sister- in-law. I wonder if her mom had something to do with her anorexic disorder because her mom would always take about her cousin and how beautiful she was for being a model.
ReplyDeleteI watched Ally McBeal when it was on in the 90s. Portia was beautiful, and it's sad to hear that she was so unsure of herself and unhappy. It makes me wonder about some of the actors I see on TV today.
ReplyDeletePortia sounds like Janine in some parts of my book. Like in Chapter 9 she is really starting to feel insecure, but about her breasts'. Her husband, who she really loves, offered to pay for plastic surgery on her breasts'. She had to think about it because she didn't want to ruin her body. She thought that her breasts' were the only negative thing about her. And now that she came from barley a size A to a C, she feels so much better about herself.
ReplyDeletei thought that it was really odd how her husband left her for her brothers wife... and i think that Portia shouldnt have changed she was fine how she was.
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