Working Out
By Candace A. Wedlan / Los Angeles Times
Guest Workout: 'Mad About You' co-star isn't mad about exercise.
TV star Leila Kenzle thinks working out is a "pain in the butt."
HOLLYWOOD -- Leila Kenzle loves her job, playing Fran, best friend to Helen Hunt's Jamie on Mad About You (NBC), but the actress hates to exercise. "I've got to tell you," Kenzle, 25, confided during a recent interview, "I think that working out is the biggest pain in the butt."
Q. But you do it
anyway?
A. The thing that you
hate the most is probably the best for you. Every time I go to yoga, I know when I'm done
that it was what I needed to do.
Q. And afterward
you're glad you went, right?
A. Way after.
Actually, I am glad because I have a muscle spasm in my back and the monitored stretching
keeps my back elongated, more pliable.
Q. What do you eat
when you're being good?
A. If I'm being really
good or just my regular life good?
Q. Regular life good.
A. If I could eat
nothing for breakfast I would be happy, but now I eat Shredded Wheat or Raisin Bran. I
would to eat Sugar Puffs if I could and I love Irish oatmeal with brown sugar on top.
Q. What about lunch?
A. Now here's where
I'm really bad -- Spaghetti Os, and it has to be with the meatballs. But if I had to eat
right, I'd have a turkey sandwich. And I will tell you that I actually force myself to eat
fruits and vegetables at least once a day.
Q. When? At dinner
time?
A. That's my
healthiest meal. That's when I have my vegetables, depending on what's in my garden, like
zucchini and asparagus, and I'll have plain chicken.
Q. Do you drink water?
A. Yeah, a lot. You
know what I do? I get those bottles with the squeeze tops and it's too much fun.
Q. Do you feel
pressure about being fit or skinny?
A. Sure I do, and then
I try to remember who I am. I'm Leila Kenzle from New Jersey and I've always been really
curvaceous and I think it's great that I have a woman's body, that I eat regular food,
that I go to McDonald's and I'm on TV.