EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

Rebel Wilson on sex, weight and working with Sacha Baron Cohen

She was Hollywood’s high-earning ‘funny fat girl’. In private she was a lonely binge eater who didn’t lose her virginity until she was 35. Rebel Wilson tells Megan Agnew how she changed everything

Rebel Wilson
Rebel Wilson
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The Sunday Times

When she was 35 Rebel Wilson was rich, famous — and keeping a secret. She was still a virgin. “I didn’t tell anyone,” she says. “Literally no one knew. Until now, obviously.”

Wilson had made a name for herself in Hollywood by playing the big girl with even bigger confidence. Within days of arriving from Sydney in 2009 she was signed to an agency. Within months she was cast in Kristen Wiig’s mega-hit comedy Bridesmaids. And within two weeks of the movie’s release she was booked for six more.

Soon she was being paid seven-figure sums and widely adored for being the “fat funny girl”, most memorably in the musical comedy Pitch Perfect as Fat Amy, who calls herself that so “twig bitches” can’t