Mila Kunis talks about dropping 20 pounds for The Black Swan

These are photos from earlier this year and last year – back in February of this year and in November 2009, to be more specific, when Mila Kunis was working on The Black Swan. Back in January, I wrote a story about how Mila looked scary-skinny at a premiere, and many of you thought I was crazy. Well, as it turns out, Mila thought she looked scary-skinny back then too – she had lost 20 pounds working on The Black Swan, and she was down to 95 pounds. Mila spoke about the dramatic weight loss to E! News:

When Mila Kunis was making Black Swan, she dropped to a mere 95 pounds. She insists it wasn’t so pretty. However, that doesn’t mean she didn’t like it. At times, she did. We’ll let her explain…

“I could see why this industry is so f–ked up, because at 95 pounds, I would literally look at myself in the mirror and I was like, Oh my God!” she says. “I had no shape, no boobs, no ass…All you saw was bone. I was like, This looks gross.”

But then she had a couple of photo shoots and began work her next flick, Book of Eli. “In real life, it looked disgusting,” Kunis says. “But in photographs and on film, it looked amazing.”

Family and friends became concerned. “My mom freaked out,” she says. “Everybody started panicking. She was like, ‘You have to promise me this isn’t going to affect you.’ I was like, ‘I promise it won’t, but it might take me a little time to be OK with having a little more fat on me.’ ”

Fortunately, she put the weight back on.

“Man,” she says, “it took me five months to lose 20 pounds, but it took me just five days—days!—to gain it all back.”

[From E! News]

I’d go so far to say that Mila did not, in fact, look “amazing” in photographs. She looked tired and drawn and like she aged 10 years. That’s the thing about severe weight loss (coughKateBosworthcough). It makes you look hard and old. But I am glad to hear that Mila didn’t really like it and that she gained the weight back.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

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