Golden Globe winner Jennifer Coolidge admits she used to eat six pizzas a day and sleep with toyboys

His has been a Hollywood success story of just 61 years. After countless career setbacks of hers, cocaine and alcohol addiction, eating disorders, depression, many plastic surgeries, and affairs with possibly hundreds of young men, it seems Jennifer Coolidge has finally made it.

Sliding across the stage at the Golden Globes on Tuesday night, she brought down the house when she picked up her first major award: a gong for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The White Lotus, HBO’s masterful dark comedy series about wealthy hotel guests. misbehave, which has become a huge hit on both sides of the Atlantic.

‘My neighbors are talking to me!’ he told him about his late career win.

A curvaceous counterpoint to skinny, ultra-toned Hollywood stars, and “a tall, messy, sexy, tough, charmingly rude Boston native bombshell,” according to a younger ex-boyfriend, Coolidge received a standing ovation.

Many of those watching may not have had the first idea of ​​who she was.

But with his inimitable acting style — squints, breathy accents, and glassy sighs — Coolidge has long had a reputation in industry circles for his scene-stealing comedic cameos.

However, while his might have been an unhurried rise to fame, it has not been without incident. Offscreen, she’s battled drug abuse, anxiety attacks, and binge eating: in fact, she felt so self-conscious about taking third place during the pandemic that she nearly turned down the role of neurotic heiress Tanya McQuoid in The White Lotus.

Coolidge has said she was “depressed and overeats” during lockdown, sometimes consuming five or six vegan pizzas a day.

Luckily he accepted the role. For decades, her roles had been limited to small supporting acts as friends of the main characters or rich, dumb women in movies like Legally Blonde and Best In Show.

By far her most famous role was as busty ‘Stifler’s Mom’ in the rude 1990s American Pie sex comedy franchise.

At 38, she played a cougar who has sex with her teenage son’s friend on a pool table. The role of her earned her a notoriety that she “gained [her] lots of sexual action . . If I hadn’t had that movie. . . well, let’s just say it would have been a very boring decade.

Coolidge once calculated that the role of American Pie was solely responsible for 200 notches in his bedpost, a figure he has since said may have been exaggerated.

Following his success in The White Lotus, a new generation of young male fans have discovered the American Pie movies, which have sparked spectacularly.

“There’s always someone who’s seen that movie lately,” he said in a 2020 interview after the first season of The White Lotus. ‘So you get a whole new group of young guys. I’m single so I’m really using it to my advantage.

Even so, she bristles at being labeled a ‘cougar’. “It sounds more like someone looking for young men, and I like it better when it’s her idea,” she said.

In an interview last year, Coolidge told pop star Ariana Grande about a date with a lover who was so young she called her mother for advice.

He “was particularly young, legal, of course, everything was very legal,” he hastily insisted. But the large age difference caused an “awkward” moment the next morning when Coolidge announced that he needed a blow dryer. Clearly puzzled as to where to suggest for a woman of Coolidge’s advanced age, he called his mother to ask.

“It was very clear that we were in bed together,” he recalled. “He gave me a good recommendation at a local mall, so it all worked out.”

She has said, ‘I love being in love with someone. I love having someone to come home to. But, she’s also admitted, “So much of my life I was chasing unattainable men, and it got me nowhere.”

Much of her tumultuous life is reflected in the messy role that has now won her a Golden Globe Award. White Lotus creator Mike White, a close friend, wrote the part for her and admits that parts of Tanya’s character are based on in her.

Although their backgrounds are completely different (Coolidge’s father worked in plastics manufacturing instead of being a real estate mogul), both women are very nervous.

Tanya, like Jennifer, seems to have a taste for younger men: she sleeps with an Italian stud half her age in season two.

Furthermore, while a grief-stricken Tanya carries her mother’s ashes in a box, Coolidge was also deeply affected by his mother’s passing. His death from cancer in 1994 was such a devastating loss that Coolidge says he was “unable to function normally” for two years. His father died in 2015.

Raised in suburban Boston, Coolidge worried her parents about her state of mind by constantly looking out the window. They told her that television would ruin her life and they locked her up every time she went out.

However, when her father saw her perform in a school play, he told her, ‘You’re meant to do this.’ But others disagreed. An industry friend of hers told her: ‘I have an eye for talent. I don’t see you as someone in front of the camera.

She persevered, not knowing what else to do, and studied acting in New York while working as a waitress alongside Sandra Bullock.

He also enjoyed a libertine party lifestyle. With little money, Coolidge posed as the granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway to get into clubs, where she overindulged in alcohol and cocaine, “ending up too many nights in the emergency room.”

After a stint in rehab, at 27 he had already kicked his habit.

After countless rejections, he gave up on ‘serious’ acting and joined an improv comedy troupe in Los Angeles.

He suffered “full-length anxiety attacks” before casting calls and never got a job, often, as he later confessed, because he turned down “casting couch” offers from sleazy producers and directors.

At age 32, she made her first television appearance as Seinfeld’s masseuse girlfriend in a 1993 episode of the comedy series.

After a handful of cameos, he got his break in American Pie and reprized his role two years later in the sequel.

That year, she also played troubled manicurist Paulette Bonafonte in Legally Blonde.

But then his career stalled. She dabbled in supporting roles and appeared in episodes of Friends, Sex And The City, and Frasier.

Cosmetic surgery may not have helped his career: Coolidge admits he’s been under the knife more than a few times.

She described the “really good surgery” as a “fluke” and said she sometimes saw herself smiling after surgery and, horrified, felt “he’s not even human.”

She once complained, “I’d say 90 percent of the scripts that show up on my doorstep are women who’ve had a lot of plastic surgery.” . . They also offer me physically altered women, or a woman with weight problems. She is never the protagonist. She’s always a part of the character.

But surely those days are over. Coolidge recently said that she “would like to continue playing troubled people”, but she, always the eccentric, also told another interviewer that she “had always wanted to play a dolphin”.

It’s hard to imagine Hollywood saying no to the irrepressible Jennifer Coolidge, even as a dolphin.