Actress Zoe Kravitz is clearly a cover star who’s in high demand these days. Kravitz is on the cover of Marie Claire’s May 2015 US issue and gets candid about her battle with anorexia.
The 26-year-old’s cover is definitely an eye-catcher. Posing in a floral embellished leather jacket with nothing underneath and some brooding bedroom eyes, the beautiful actress looks the epitome of the overlaid text, “The New Cool.”
But the inside article takes a slightly darker turn, when Zoe reveals more about her struggle with an eating disorder in high school, something that resurfaced while filming a new movie. She admits she got down to 90 lbs for the role but, unsettlingly enough, not everyone saw this as concerning. “Part of me didn’t want to gain the weight back, which was really scary,” she said. “People were like, ‘You look so good!’ I was like, ‘Oh my God, that is disturbing.’”
She lost the weight to portray a woman with severe anorexia and bulimia for the 2014 film ‘The Road Within’, during the filming of which she only ate pureed vegetables and drank clay to lose 20 pounds from her already svelte frame.
“I had a really hard time when I was 16, 17, 18. Just [a hard time] loving myself,” she explained in an interview for Complex magazine two months ago, adding: “My mother’s a beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.”
Zoe’s mother is Lisa Bonet, best known in England for her role as Denise Huxtable, Bill Cosby’s character’s daughter on ‘The Cosby Show’ and its spin-off series ‘A Different World’. Bonet eloped with rock star Lenny Kravitz in 1987 and gave birth to Zoe just over a year later.
Zoe says she is moving forward healthier and happier as she stars in not one but two films including Insurgent and Mad Max: Fury Road. And like any actress, she is trying to find roles that will challenge her acting abilities as she admitted she would love to make others laugh.
“I’m dying to do comedy! Yeah, man, I think I’m pretty funny,” she said adding: “There are so few roles that are written for rad, funny chicks. We gotta write our own.”
Zoe is one of five actresses who landed separate covers for Marie Claire. Felicity Jones, Kate Upton, Hailee Steinfeld and Iggy Azalea all grace their own Fresh Face issues.
