Portia de Rossi Covers The March Issue Of The Advocate

Portia de Rossi talks eating disorders, “Ally McBeal” and gay marriage for the March issue of The Advocate.

Portia de Rossi (birth name: Mandy Rogers) doesn’t look as if she’s aged a nanosecond since her va-va voom entrance to the mainstream as Nelle Porter on “Ally McBeal.” But once you scratch the surface, however, she’s completely transformed.

“It was a very difficult dichotomy to live in. Oh, I’m Portia. I’m fresh and new to Hollywood. I just found myself in Ally McBeal. Now I’m in my underwear and sleeping with my boss even though I don’t want to portray women in the workplace that way. Plus — I was gay, did I mention? I abused my body. I had bulimia. I would use fen-phen. Nobody can really get inside the anorexic’s mind like the anorexic,””

De Rossi is working on a book chronicling her life and is a staunch supporter of gay marriage:

I think it’s up to us to save marriage,” [De Rossi] says. “Up to gay people across the country, seeing as though we’re fighting for it so vehemently.” De Rossi has an impressive ability to marry the personal and political: “This whole thing has been a wave of excitement and hope, and then it gently falls back into despair. And then it picks us up again. Unfortunately, we’re the ones who have to suffer this—this humiliation, really. There’s kind of a dignity that’s been stripped from us. Gay people are the ones who have to suffer through it—but without it, it won’t change.”

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~Melissa Noble