Actress Candice Bergen who starred in TV drama Murphy Brown says she is fat and proud of it

“LET me just come right out and say it: I am fat,” says an Oscar-nominated, Golden Globe and Emmy-winning actress and former international model.

NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 15: Candice Bergen attends SNL 40th Anniversary Celebration at Rockefeller Plaza on February 15, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images)

“LET me just come right out and say it: I am fat,” says an Oscar nominated, Golden Globe and Emmy winning actress and former international model.

Candice Bergen, who played journalist Murphy Brown in the eponymous award-winning TV series for 10 years, is well rounded — and proud of it.

“In the past 15 years ... I have put on 30 pounds (13.6kg). I live to eat. None of this ‘eat to live’ stuff for me. I am a champion eater. No carb is safe — no fat, either,” she boasts.

Last major TV role ... Candice Bergen, pictured in a scene with Dr Gregory House (actor Hugh Laurie), played Dr Lisa Cuddy’s mother Arlene awardiwnning drama series House M.D. Picture: Channel Ten

The follow-up to Bergen’s 1984 memoir “Knock Wood” focuses on her 15-year marriage to French director Louis Malle and remarriage to former New York Public Library Chairman Marshall Rose.

Another major TV role ... Candice Bergen as lawyer Shirley Schmidt in Boston Legal.

‘Dieting is out of my purview’ ... Candice Bergen.

But Bergen, 68, is at her most revealing when discussing body image.

“At a recent dinner party I shared bread and olive oil, followed by chocolate ice cream with my husband. A woman near me looked at me, appalled, and I thought, ‘I don’t care,’ ” she writes.

Women over 50 must choose between preserving either their face or their butts, she writes. She chose the former.

“Dieting is out of my purview,” she writes. “I crave cookies ... all the things that dilate my pupils.”

But her thin friends only reinforce her need to nibble.

“They maintain their weight by routinely vomiting after major meals consisting of a slice of steak or a fillet of fish,” she writes. “I am incapable of this.”

After her fifth Emmy for her performance as Murphy Brown, Bergen declined future nominations for the role, which she said was “written for me”

“The lead was a television news reporter. She was big, she was brassy, she was fearless.

“Smart, fast-paced, and funny, the dialogue was similar to the great comedies of the 1940s.

“There was something in the writing of the Murphy character that hooked me, as she eventually hooked many women.

“Is it that she was, in many ways, who we wished we could be as women? Successful in a field dominated by men? Free of the need to please? Impolitic, impolite, yet in some weird way, irresistible?”

“A Fine Romance” (S & S) is released on April 7.

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