When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was born with lots of deformities.
People made fun of my skinny legs.
They came and bound me up and I had awful stretch marks. I hated my breasts after that.
I don't know why I get cast in a lot of period pieces. Stephen Fry told me that I had a face for period, that I look like someone from 1920.
I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.
It's funny how sometimes how the public some people think I was born like this. That I maybe I sleep and I do big muscle, but its a lot of work to look like this and to be in this kind of condition.
They put me in a whole body suit, from my neck to my ankles. It was so bad, I couldn't straighten my legs.
Whether it is your height, your weight or your skin, someone is going to pick on something and make fun of it. My legs were just a more obvious target.
When I was 18, I broke my leg, and my shin came right through - like I had two knees.
The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me - my mother's side of the family have awful legs.