![]() Portia de Rossi’s Unbearable Lightness tells “a story of loss and gain,” a story of one model and actress’ life-long battle with food, weight, and bodily occupation. In her eyes, models and actresses were beautiful, waif-thin, charming, and definitely not gay, which seemed to her at the time the opposite of what she was: “a fat dyke” in her own words. The identity was that of a celebrity, something Rogers could never fathom she could be. The name stuck, and with it, an identity that Rogers would nearly kill herself to embody. Portia, from The Merchant of Venice, and de Rossi from watching the credits of an old Hollywood movie. All he needed was her name.Īnxious that he’d discover her real age and worried that her real name didn’t sound special enough, Rogers invented a name on the spot: Portia de Rossi. ![]() She had illegally snuck into a downtown Los Angeles nightclub, and the owner was offering her a VIP pass and a potential hostess job. At the age of fifteen, Amanda Rogers was asked her name. ![]()
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