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Cates played the mother of 19-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio in the 1993 cine What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. Though the cine was accepted for the blemish achievement DiCaprio delivered in one of his aboriginal above roles, Cates additionally becoming accolades for her assuming of the depressed and emotionally addled mother of DiCaprio and Johnny Depp‘s characters.
The achievement wasn’t far off from Cates’s own life, Darlene Cates herself struggled with weight issues and depression, spending 11 months in the hospital area she endured four surgeries and three “near-death experiences.” She has back been able to bead 244 pounds, and the Forney, Texas built-in said she is now aggressive to lose alike added weight.
She aims to lose addition 100 pounds with a ambition of extensive 221 pounds. The 64-year-old said she wants to be an extra afresh and keeps a letter DiCaprio beatific her afterwards Gilbert Grape captivated as inspiration.
“I’ll consistently bethink you as the best acting momma I’ve anytime had,” he wrote in a agenda appear by Dallas Morning News. “You triumphed in your role.”
DiCaprio’s words helped Cates accretion the aplomb bare to booty ascendancy of her activity and advance her weight issues. His agenda helped her apprehend “how God had acclimated me to draft added bodies and accord them adventuresomeness by what I did,” Darlene Cates told the Dallas Morning News. “And that gave them adventuresomeness to put themselves out there more,” she added.
The Gilbert Grape brilliant is no best diabetic and is in look of advantageous means to abide accident weight. Darlene Cates additionally told the Dallas Morning News that afterwards years spent in her room, “I’m accessible to draft this joint.”
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