At one point, Cho dropped 30 pounds in two weeks, and checked into the hospital for kidney failure. Despite the weight loss and a steady stream of fen-phen, vitamins and nicotine, Cho still felt fat. Now I look at old tapes of the show, and I was emaciated, she says. I was freakishly skinny. It s so funny, she muses.
Insanity is such an accepted trait among sitcom stars, it s almost a job requirement.
I would go crazy and call these emergency meetings with my writers and talk about things that made no sense, and they would all listen to me. When told by TV producers she was too fat, Cho lost 30 pounds in two weeks and was hospitalized. It was like I had won a hideous contest, because on top of all this horrible stuff, I was suddenly famous, and all these people had opinions about me. I had to cancel my subscription to the newspaper, because every day I read something that would attack my looks or my acting ability or my Asian identity. The tabloids called me Thunder Thighs.