Mira Nair directed heroine to get pregnant before her film

LONDON, JAN 10: Director Mira Nair has revealed that before she started shooting for her movie 'Vanity Fair,' she asked actress Reese Witherspoon, who plays the lead role of Becky in the movie, to get pregnant so that she would get a fuller figure.

Vanity Fair is the story of Becky Sharp, a poor girl growing up in 1840's London who defies her poverty-stricken background and ascends the social ladder alongside her best friend, Amelia. Written by William Thackeray, the novel was made into a film by Mira Nair, director of the award winning Monsoon Wedding.

The critically acclaimed director Nair said that she had gone for dinner to Witherspoon's house before the movie started filming and she asked Witherspoon's actor husband, Ryan Philippe, to 'knock her up,' reports Female First.

"I am not a fan of underfed Los Angeles actresses so the year before we began filming, I had dinner at her home and told her husband to knock her up... and he did," the report quoted Nair as saying.

"It had a wonderful effect on her luminosity and womanliness. In those days the dresses had plunging necklines. It was the bosom that I wanted and I certainly got that," she added. (ANI)

Viagra divorce

The housewife said that her husband had become “sexually aggressive” after taking the prescription tablet, which in her successful divorce petition she claimed amounted to “unreasonable behavior”, the couple from London are in their fifties.

Solicitors acting on behalf of the wife were reported as saying, the husband took Viagra to revive the couple’s sex life, but it got out of control, the Viagra had changed his behavior and his wife found it offensive.

This is the first known case of a “Viagra divorce” in Britain. In the United States, where almost eight million men use the drug, it is emerging as a factor in a significant number of marriage breakdowns among older couples, because the husband either has affairs or becomes too sexually demanding.

Last year the NHS issued over one million Viagra prescriptions in Britain, but experts believe that with many other anti-impotence drugs in the pipeline, this is only the start of a middle-aged sexual revolution with potentially far-reaching consequences. It has also been reported that testosterone boosts, the male form of hormone replacement therapy, have been blamed for marriage break-ups after they gave the husbands the sex drive of young men, with solicitors acting for women filing for divorces as there husbands become more sexually demanding.

Viagra could be disastrous for a marriage, with 55 year old men acting as if they were 25, and 50 year old wives acting 50. Science may soon have an answer, Duramed, the drug company, will start promoting a pink pill called Cenestin as an oestrogen boost to help women over 40 with their sex drive.