Where are they now...Kelly LeBrock

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Language level: A2 Pre-intermediate

Speakers: Jason Bermingham and Chuck Rolando

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KELLY LE BROCK

In 1984 the Young Frankenstein star Gene Wilder directed the movie The Woman in Red. The film is best known for its soundtrack, the romantic Stevie Wonder song “I Just Called To Say I love You.” Kelly LeBrock had the little role.” The Woman in Red, “ 27 years later.

Wilder and Wonder are still famous: Kelly LeBrock is not.

TRANSATLANTIC

Kelly LeBrock was born in New York City. On March 24^th, 1960. Her father was French Canadian and her mother  was Irish, but Kelly grew up in England.

She started working as a model when she was 16. She was very successful and appeared on magazine covers.

She was also in ads for Christian Dior and Pantene and she said the great 1980s phrase: “Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Beautiful.” Soon she was acting in movies. After The Woman in Red, she appeared in Weird Scene (1985). The same year she received the “ShoWest” Award for “Female Star of Tomorrow.”

MARRIED LIFE

In 1986 she divorced her first husband, Victor Drai, and in 1987 she married the film star, Steven Seagal. They starred in a movie together in 1990: Hard to Kill LeBrok appeared in other films, but she later gave up acting to be with their three children. The family lived on a ranch near Los Angeles and LeBrock continued living there after she divorced Seagal in 1996.

WEIGHT PROBLEM

Kelly LeBrock also developed a weight problem. In 2005 the announced that she wanted to lose weight and start acting again. Fortunately, there was a reality TV show for overweight celebrities called Celebrity Fit Club and LeBrock was perfect. She became captain of the “Kelly’s Bellies team and lost 31 pounds (13 kilos). She later put the weight back on, but she is acting again. More importantly, she says she is “happy.”