Carey Mulligan Reveals Vogue Cover Dress 'Wouldn't Go Over My Arse,' Had To Wear Towel

Carey Mulligan's October Vogue cover appears totally polished but behind-the-scenes it was anything but. The actress revealed to Express.co.uk that all of the clothes were sample sizes straight from Paris, so "the cover dress was very pretty but wouldn't go over my arse. Sample size is very, very tiny. I'm actually wearing a towel around my waist and the bottom is clipped up because I couldn't fit."

According to the Daily Mail, Mulligan once went down to 112 pounds, recalling, "my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job." She told the Mail, "That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing. I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress."

Check out Carey's cover (no towel in sight!):

Comments

[FlaviaDeLuce]

12:38 PM on 09/13/2010

That's just absurd, it's one this to clip something here and there to fit better but to have the whole back flop open, what is the point then..

[BebeLush]

11:40 AM on 09/13/2010

Love her face, hate the haircut. Ricky Shroeder is not fashionable.

[CVales]

11:43 PM on 09/12/2010

Damn, get the woman some clothes that fit! This is so insane. If she can't fit in these outfits, who can?

[Chlowina]

11:45 PM on 09/12/2010

The designers 6 year old daughter.

[WYHKTai-Tai]

10:27 PM on 09/12/2010

Just saw her in "The Greatest". sad, touching movie. She was very good.

[tizzylish]

04:46 PM on 09/12/2010

She is so refreshing.

[Kiabell04]

04:22 PM on 09/12/2010

Hmmmm....I'm not too familiar with her work, but I like her attitude! I'm glad someone is ballsy enough to tell the truth about what goes on to make those magazine covers look they way they do. Most conceited actresses would rather you believe that they actually look as FABULOUS as they do on those photoshopped magazine covers.

[Mischief Managed]

04:21 PM on 09/12/2010

Love her, the cover & the dress.

[javadrinker]

01:50 PM on 09/12/2010

Makes me think of Spring and wildflowers, not Fall.

[Art Dodger]

12:06 AM on 09/12/2010

Actually this story is the perfect response to the article on the model "who stuffs herself", which created some pretty wild commentary. Carey is a perfect example of a nice, slender woman with a cute shape who is too "large" relatively speaking to fit into a model's sample size. This is a woman with a slender but healthy shape being unable to fit into the unhealthy sample size that models have to squeeze into, forcing the vast majority to take draconian methods to keep their weight excessively low. I think she is cute, love An Education

[VicksieDo]

09:26 PM on 09/11/2010

Love her and the cover too

[Aitch5]

09:07 PM on 09/11/2010

well who designed the cover dress? did I miss this somewhere?

[afavor2]

04:57 PM on 09/11/2010

She irks me to no end for some reason...I just can't stand this girl.

[WYHKTai-Tai]

10:30 PM on 09/12/2010

Maybe she reminds you of someone you know and don't like in real life. I have that response to Julianna Moore, although she is a great actress, she bugs me, because of that weird reminder.

[Jssnow]

03:30 AM on 09/13/2010

I can't stand Julianne Moore, either! No reason...Just because!!

[Jssnow]

03:31 AM on 09/13/2010

p.s. LOVE Carey!

[Ergon]

03:10 PM on 09/11/2010

That dress looks good on you, sweeting,
Can we have a look at you retreating? ;)

[Amanda Donovan]

02:46 PM on 09/11/2010

she is so tiny and elfin- cant believe she was tinier and cant fit into clothes! pretty girl in a pretty dress.

[eva belle]

02:22 PM on 09/11/2010

I hear a closet door opening...creeeaak!