It's always great when a new star or starlet joins the cast of a show like Home & Away or, in this case, Neighbours, because the PR department gets them to do a load of totally pointless interviews, and we reap all the benefits.

So it is with new Ramsay Street regular Margot Robbie (apparently pictured chilling out in the Crawfords' bathrooms), who says that being on the soap made her more self-conscious. Or something like that:

"I used to read magazines and think, 'Why would those girls turn anorexic?' Sure, they would have a bit of pressure, but I didn't think it could be too bad," Robbie said.

"But you don't understand what it's like on the outside. You are under heaps of pressure and when you get cast, everyone is stick-thin and you think, 'I need to be like that'.

"When you look at movies the lead girl is always gorgeous and thin. There is a stereotype that you need to look a certain way and when you get in the business you really feel the pressure."

Yes, and when you look at Neighbours the girls are always gorgeous and thin, and the boys are Toadfish Rebecchi and Paul Robinson.

Hang on, something's amiss here!

 

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