Linda Tessner

Yeah.

I didn't want to disappoint Susan.

It's not sustainable, and it's not even very fun.

Because you're constantly, you're thinking all the goddamn time about what you're going to eat or not eat.

So your entire world, like, it kind of pains me to think of those years, like, not thinking about other things, but thinking about assiduously writing down every calorie in a little notebook.

You can't.

I mean, I couldn't.

And it created a real crisis of confidence.

She was a little worried about me, at how thin I had become.

I remember at one lunch, we were having lunch together, and she insisted on getting a bowl of strawberries and whipped cream for dessert.

And I remember her sitting there saying, Linda, eat.

Oh, I put myself into debt by chasing, like having to have the Hervé Leger.

I don't regret it.

It was really exciting to wear that dress for one night at the Costume Institute Gala.

I would do it again.

But it had major repercussions in my life.

that lasted for a long time.

Financial repercussions?

Like, how much did I want to be like Susan Train?

I mean, Susan was in many ways a very lonely person.