Renee, who was speaking in New York, recalled the overeating she had to do to gain weight for the first film in 2001. "It sounds like heaven," she said. "For two days it's bliss and then you're ...

I don't know whether to be excited (I'm not ashamed to admit that I loooved the Bridget Jones movies), or to feel sorry for Renee Zellweger who is--voluntarily--gaining another 30 pounds to star ...

While some actors rely on prosthetics for movie transformations, some actually gain or lose weight to embody their characters. Renée Zellweger famously gained 30 pounds to play the titular role ...

Renée Zellweger's played Bridget Jones in three movies and each time her appearance has made headlines. The actor famously gained weight for the part in 2001 and again in 2004 but now she wants ...

Renee Zellweger packed on the pounds for her role as Bridget Jones in the first two ... Zellweger said that gaining weight sounds like fun, ... [played by Hugh Grant in the first two movies] ...

Bridget Jones, wanton sex goddess and now Hollywood’s latest mother-to-be. In a sit-down with Vogue U.K. the star of the “Bridget Jones’s Diary” films, Renee Zellweger, clap… ...

Bridget Jones is back — this time with a baby bump — and Renée Zellweger is opening up about her weight gain for the role in Vogue UK‘s July issue. Zellweger poses on the cover in a ...

Zellweger poses on the cover in a gorgeous floral Prada dress and snaps back at haters who have commented on her weight gain for the return of Bridget Jones in Bridget Jones’s Baby.

(Firth, 64, does show up as Mark in this movie, but only in Bridget's mind.) “But the script was so beautifully written that the emotion just sneaks up on you," Zellweger continued.

To Zellweger's point, male stars more often make headlines when they lose a lot of weight for a role, as Matthew McConaughey did for the 2013 film Dallas Buyers Club.