Unlike some of her contemporaries, Mandy Moore has said she has no problem with directors asking her to lose weight for a film.

She told Us Weekly recently: “If I have to slim down now for a film, I don’t mind. I just look at it like I’m just changing my hair or something. If that’s what I have to do for the character, then that’s what I have to do.”

“It’s not a personal thing, it’s something that I have to do for my job: shape up a little bit.”

But she won’t go too far and sacrifice her health just for a role: “Being a young woman in this industry, there’s enough pressure, it’s hard enough as it is. I felt like, for this job, you sacrifice so much already that the last thing I want to do is make myself feel really horrible.”

“Personally, if I weren’t in the public eye, I would want someone in this position to just be normal because that’s believable and that’s acceptable and there’s nothing wrong with it. This is how we’re supposed to look.”

She added that she follows a diet and exercise regime but the emphasis is on fitness and health rather than size zero status: “I feel better mentally - even if I don’t look any different - when I’m putting forth the effort to exercise. But having said that, it’s not going to push me away if I want to have a cookie at the end of the day. You have to reward yourself every now and then.