Ellen DeGeneres: Portia Would Rather Me Be 'Heavier than Thinner'

Ellen DeGeneres' woman likes her with some meat on her bones!
In the May issue of Shape, the newest American Idol judge tells the mag that her wife, actress Portia de Rossi, prefers her to have more weight on her than less.


"She loves me no matter what," Degeneres said of her love. "Whenever I feel bad about myself, or if I’m in a period where I’m not working out, she’s constantly telling me that she doesn’t notice, that I look beautiful. She’ll say, ‘I think you could gain 10 more pounds.’ She would rather have me heavier than thinner, and she really hates that I ever doubt myself. She loves how I look. She wants me to be happy and never think about it.”
De Rossi knows what it's like to have an obsession with the scale, as she has fought eating disorders in the past and is currently writing a book about her struggles.
DeGeneres, 52, says she's been active since she's a kid, burning calories playing sports, which kept her from being lonely in her younger years.
“I was very much a tomboy. I loved sports, running around, playing tennis. I learned golf in high school because my mother remarried and we moved [from Louisiana] to a really small town in Texas. I had no friends, so I learned to play golf, because you can do that by yourself.”
Now the talk show host is exploring meditation and yoga. “I first started doing power yoga in L.A., which really makes no sense. Power yoga? It’s the opposite of what it should be. Yoga should calm you down!”
And when she's not working on her outside or running to one of her jobs, DeGeneres ends her day by reading self-help books. "I like to read books that challenge you, that open your eyes and make you look in different directions, maybe see someone else's side," she says. "I like the books that make you realize we're all connected."