Candice Bergen is well rounded — and proud of it.
“Let me just come right out and say it: I am fat,” the “Murphy Brown” star declares in her new memoir, “A Fine Romance.”
“In the past 15 years . . . I have put on 30 pounds. I live to eat. None of this ‘eat to live’ stuff for me. I am a champion eater. No carb is safe — no fat, either,” she boasts.
The follow-up to Bergen’s 1984 memoir “Knock Wood” focuses on her 15-year marriage to French director Louis Malle and remarriage to former New York Public Library Chairman Marshall Rose.
But Bergen, 68, is at her most revealing when discussing body image.
“At a recent dinner party I shared bread and olive oil, followed by chocolate ice cream with my husband. A woman near me looked at me, appalled, and I thought, ‘I don’t care,’ ” she writes.
Women over 50 must choose between preserving either their face or their butts, she writes. She chose the former.
“Dieting is out of my purview,” she writes. “I crave cookies . . . all the things that dilate my pupils.”
But her thin friends only reinforce her need to nibble.
“They maintain their weight by routinely vomiting after major meals consisting of a slice of steak or a filet of fish,” she writes. “I am incapable of this.”
“A Fine Romance” (S&S) comes out April 7.