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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) |
A HUSBAND’S use of the sex drug Viagra has been cited as a reason for
divorce in Britain by a wife who claimed he made excessive demands in the
bedroom, this is the first time in the UK.
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. |