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Portia De Rossi Interviews with the Advocate

Posted by: Natasia Rose on February 9, 2010.

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02/09/2010- by Natasia Langfelder

Portia De Rossi has come a long day from her Ally McBeal days. BE (Before Ellen) De Rossi was tight lipped about her personal life and opened up just the narrowest crack to allow the public access to her struggle with eating disorders. Today, De Rossi is a beautiful, strong, articulate woman who will go head to head with anyone to defend marriage equality and preservation of positive self image.

De Rossi states in the interview that:

“Ever since Ellen and I got together, I feel like I’ve been given an opportunity to actually—God, this sounds corny…” She rolls her eyes at herself, fidgets, and then forges ahead. “Well, I feel like my life can actually kind of stand for something. And I don’t mean that in a self-aggrandizing way, like, ‘Look at me, I can make a difference.’ But I feel like, maybe I get why I’m here.”

The LGBT community couldn’t ask for a better spokesperson. De Rossi also says that it is up to the LGBT community to fight for marriage equality:

“I think it’s up to us to save marriage,” she says. “Up to gay people across the country, seeing as though we’re fighting for it so vehemently.” De Rossi has an impressive ability to marry the personal and political: “This whole thing has been a wave of excitement and hope, and then it gently falls back into despair. And then it picks us up again. Unfortunately, we’re the ones who have to suffer this—this humiliation, really. There’s kind of a dignity that’s been stripped from us. Gay people are the ones who have to suffer through it—but without it, it won’t change.”

De Rossi also reveals that she is working on a book that will be published in the fall. It will focus on her battle with anorexia.

Check out the rest of the interview here:

http://advocate.com/Arts_and_Entertainment/People/The_Great_de_Rossi/