Overview

• Memoir excerpts published in Vanity Fair this week detail Stoner’s extreme audition prep for Katniss Everdeen at age 17.
• Stoner convinced a world-renowned medical weight-loss camp to enroll her on a two-week, seven-hours-a-day exercise program despite her underweight condition.
• Doctors and trainers cleared the regimen once she said it was for an acting role, highlighting how industry pressures can override medical caution.
• After losing weight, Stoner did not land the part — which went to Jennifer Lawrence — and responded with a binge that erased her progress and plunged her into self-hatred.
• She describes weakened immunity, depleted adrenals, injuries and emotional fallout from the ordeal ahead of her book Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything, due August 12.