The Enquirer has run several stories about Julia Roberts’ difficult relationship with her sister Nancy Motes over the years. Most recently, the Enquirer had a story claiming that Julia didn’t want to help pay for Nancy’s wedding to a freeloader, like Julia is one to judge about that sort of thing (remember “A Low Vera”? I do.). But the worst story about Julia and Nancy came several years ago, when The Enquirer had a detailed story about how Julia was making fun of Nancy for being overweight. Nancy is their mother’s caretaker, and Nancy works as a production assistant on Glee, and apparently Julia thinks that Nancy should find the time to lose a little weight, and Julia was really rude about those thoughts. At the time, I kind of thought the Enquirer story was true. Turns out, it WAS true. Nancy just gave an interview to The Sun where she basically confirmed that Julia Roberts hates overweight people.
It must be tough living in the shadow of one of the world’s most beautiful and successful actresses. And for Nancy Motes, her life as Julia Roberts’ younger half-sister has proved anything but easy.
In her first ever interview with The Sun, Nancy spoke about her battle with obesity and depression, and how Julia would often make derogatory comments about her weight.
‘When you’re in a family of very, very exceptionally beautiful people it’s intimidating,’ said Nancy in an exclusive interview with The Sun. ‘I think that growing up as Pretty Woman’s little sister has definitely made me try to see the person inside and not the person outside. A lot of my life I felt judged for my weight.’
The 37-year-old reached 20 stone at her heaviest and Nancy said she always felt like an embarrassment to Julia, 45, because of her weight. After spending £20,000 on a gastric bypass surgery in June 2012, which was financed by a loan that Nancy had to take out and a little help from her mother, she is now down to 11 stone.
Nancy who grew up with the family in Smyrna, near Atlanta, Georgia wanted to be a movie star like Julia and her other siblings, Eric Roberts and Lisa Roberts Gillan, but claimed to have got no help from her famous sister. Julia was remembered as being pretty and popular at school before moving to New York at 18-years-old for acting classes, and in 1989 was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in Steel Magnolias.
She then picked up the iconic role as prostitute Vivian in Pretty Woman, which 13-year-old Nancy was bullied for at school. According to Nancy, Julia would constantly tell her how overweight she was, and did not want her to follow down the path to Hollywood because of her size.
Nevertheless she still went to auditions, and did a few waitressing jobs before the cost of living got too high and she returned to Georgia to focus on theatre. But in 2009 their mum Betty had a heart attack, they pair have different fathers, and Julia moved Betty to LA to be closer to her and her grandchildren.
Nancy then moved West too after sparking up a relationship with John Dilbeck who was from LA. Nancy claims Julia commented on her size even continued after her moved to LA in 2010, and Julia made a jibe on the week she arrived whilst she was struggling to unpack her bags. She even suspected she saw Julia making comments about her size at her birthday party.
But Nancy suffered from depression and would often comfort eat, namely fast food such as burgers and chocolate milkshakes.
Despite everything she hoped to rekindle her relationship with the Pretty Woman star, as she feels better about herself having lost seven stone and John recently proposing to her on the set of Glee, where she secured a job as a production assistant thanks to her sister’s contacts.
But she is still not sure if Julia will attend her wedding next May, and referred to it as a ‘work in progress,’ but remains certain in her heart that they family all love each other.
Yep. Confirmed. Julia Roberts is now and has always been a nasty, condescending bitch. It’s awful to be rudely sizist, but it’s taken to a whole other level when you’re being that awful to your family member. And the worst part is that I truly believe that Julia doesn’t give a crap about her sister whatsoever, whether Nancy is healthy or happy or mentally capable. For Julia, it’s all about Julia. And how Julia is perceived. And Julia didn’t want her “fat sister” anywhere near her.
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