"Deal or No Deal" gameshow beauties LEYLA and BROOKE went through a life-changing experience when they enlisted in ET's hidden-camera "fat suit" investigation on the streets of New York.
Simple daily tasks such as shopping at a grocery store, fetching a cab and even ice skating became a chore, with certain total strangers making it a demeaning experience as they delivered scornful looks and disrespectful comments to the ladies.
All 26 of the briefcase-holding "Deal or No Deal" beauties were hand-picked for their stunning looks and petite figures, pictures of perfection for millions of fans of the show.
Now, two of these game show models, BROOKE and LEYLA, are playing a part in an all-new ET "fat suit" investigation on the streets of New York!
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Tonight on ET, we have ANNA NICOLE SMITH's stunt double in a wedding dress, veil -- and sneakers! Is it Anna's big wedding day? Nope! It's her husband's funeral.
One of the big scenes in the movie is the memorial service of Anna's billionaire husband, J. HOWARD MARSHALL II. Pop singer and former "Dancing with the Stars" contestant WILLA FORD plays Anna in the feature-length movie, coming out later this year, and she had to arrive three hours before the rest of the crew to have a prosthetic piece applied to her face to create the illusion of a heavier Anna.
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Tonight, ET has the lost ANNA NICOLE SMITH interview from her Playboy years! Before she was Miss May 1993 and Playboy's Playmate of the Year, Anna Nicole was still Vickie -- and extremely modest about her chances of making it big in front of the camera.
"I didn't think I could ever model, because I'm a big girl," says Anna in the lost footage, "But surprise, surprise!"
Oscar winner JON VOIGHT dons a fat suit to play a bizarre, 400-pound British psychiatrist in the indie thriller 'The Legend of Simon Conjurer' -- and ET is behind the scenes to capture Jon's amazing transformation!
"We're doing something that is completely crazy," says Jon. "The way my face works under this makeup, I can make really strange faces. Sometimes the makeup itself will determine the character."
MARTIN LAWRENCE is back in drag for 'Big Momma's House 2,' the sequel to his hilarious, 2000 blockbuster!
Our KEVIN FRAZIER couldn't pass up the chance to meet Martin on the red carpet for the premiere of the film Wednesday night -- where there were 50 dressed-up "big momma's" joining the party: "We hung out with them earlier tonight, they're crazy," Martin told Kevin, "To me that's beautiful, I wouldn't believe they would have this many big momma's hangin out ... just to get in all that wardrobe and all that!"
ET's own VANESSA MINNILLO first went undercover in a 350-pound "fat suit" to find out just how weight-challenged individuals are treated. Now, ET has footage you've never seen from her hidden-camera investigation, and you won't believe the results!
"This time I felt better armed; I thought I knew what to expect," says Vanessa about her second outing in disguise. "But cruelty from a total stranger, that's something you can never prepare for or ever get used to."
When ET's own VANESSA MINNILLO first went undercover in a 350-pound "fat suit" to find out just how weight-challenged individuals are treated, the results were eye-opening. Now, Vanessa puts the suit on again for another hidden-camera investigation!
"It's the story I just couldn't let go of," says Vanessa. "I'm back in the fat suit and fighting for overweight women all over again!"
The reactions to our own VANESSA MINNILLO's undercover investigation in her "fat suit" have been pretty amazing. Earlier this week, Vanessa donned the suit and prosthetics for her face and hands and posed as a 350-pound woman on the streets of Manhattan. Vanessa said the response she experienced as a heavy woman -- compared to her real 125-pound frame -- was "like night and day."
What Vanessa didn't expect was the emotional toll it took on her. "I didn't realize the validity of the situation and how it really emotionally took me over," she tells MARY HART. "I mean, I'm not an actress; I can't fake tears. I didn't think I would cry.
Does size really matter? Yesterday, our own VANESSA MINNILLO went undercover in a "fat suit" as a 350-pound woman to get a reality check on the everyday prejudices facing America's weight-challenged women.
Now, walking around New York's Fifth Avenue and Central Park, Vanessa is out of the suit. Will she be treated differently at 125 pounds than she was as a heavy, 350-pound woman?
Razor-sharp RYAN REYNOLDS plays a hotshot record exec with a secret in his new romantic comedy, 'Just Friends,' and to pull it off he had to don a "fat suit"!
In 'Just Friends,' in theaters November 23, Ryan plays Chris, a newly slim record exec who's trying to sign the world's hottest pop star (ANNA FARIS of the 'Scary Movie' series). A former high school geek who could never quite escape the "friendzone" -- especially because he was about 100 pounds heavier than he is now -- Chris gets a second chance to win over his first love (AMY SMART) when he gets stranded in his Jersey hometown for the holidays. That is, if he can overcome some serious competition from super-sensitive, aspiring musician Dusty (CHRIS KLEIN).
Sixty-two percent of the women in the United States are overweight, and now ET is exposing the real world they live in every time they step out of the house.
Our own VANESSA MINNILLO underwent a startling transformation for our cameras and went undercover on the streets of New York City as a 350-pound woman to get a reality check on the every day prejudices facing America's weight-challenged women.
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