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If that kind of extreme pressure is unlikely to change anytime soon, some stars are hoping that by bringing it out into the open, progress will come slowly – even if it means acknowledging their own insecurities. At the Emmys this year, Matenopoulos says she was three pounds heavier than she'd recently been. "I tried my hardest to look in the mirror and say, 'You know what? Nobody's gonna be able to tell you've gained three pounds,' " she says. "And nobody noticed – except for me, in my ridiculous little head."
• By Michelle Tauber and Ashley Williams. Alexis Chiu, Vicki Sheff-Cahan, Julie Jordan Jenny Sundel, Jed Dreben, Nicholas White and Jessica Herndon in L.A., Jeffrey Slonim, Steve Erwin, Nina Burleigh, Kelly Carter, Kristen Mascia and Lesley Messer in New York City, Courtney Rubin in Milan, Monique Jessen and Pete Norman in London and Sheree Curry in Minneapolis
