--- title: Wentworth Miller Responds to Fat-Shaming Meme description: The 'Prison Break' star responded to a meme on Facebook that called out his weight. canonical: https://time.com/4274812/wentworth-miller-meme-response/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-29T13:45:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:56:01.025Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'Prison Break' Star Wentworth Miller Shuts Down Fat-Shaming Meme og:description: He opens up about his personal battles og:url: https://time.com/4274812/wentworth-miller-meme-response/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf0ec0c838e35fff1/69888ccf524fc0fa9adf75a4/wentworth-miller-responds-fat-shaming-meme-facebook.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5642 og:image:height: 3174 og:image:alt: Getty Images Portrait Studio Powered By Samsung Galaxy At Comic-Con International 2015 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Prison Break' Star Wentworth Miller Shuts Down Fat-Shaming Meme twitter:description: He opens up about his personal battles twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf0ec0c838e35fff1/69888ccf524fc0fa9adf75a4/wentworth-miller-responds-fat-shaming-meme-facebook.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Prison Break_ Star Wentworth Miller Shuts Down Fat-Shaming Meme > Sponsored content. 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TIME takes a look inside the design process for the new Barbie body types: curvy, petite, and tall._ by [Oliver Gettell / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Oliver Gettell / Entertainment Weekly Mar 29, 2016 1:45 PM UTC  Actor Wentworth Miller of "Legends of Tomorrow" poses for a portrait at the Getty Images Portrait Studio Powered By Samsung Galaxy At Comic-Con International 2015 at Hard Rock Hotel San Diego on July 11, 2015 in San Diego, California. Actor Wentworth Miller of "Legends of Tomorrow" poses for a portrait at the Getty Images Portrait Studio Powered By Samsung Galaxy At Comic-Con International 2015 at Hard Rock Hotel San Diego on July 11, 2015 in San Diego, California. Maarten de Boer/Getty Images by [Oliver Gettell / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Oliver Gettell / Entertainment Weekly Mar 29, 2016 1:45 PM UTC It takes more than a mean-spirited meme to bring Wentworth Miller down. The _Prison Break_ and _Legends of Tomorrow_ actor took to social media Monday to defang an image that surfaced online and ridiculed his past weight gain. “Today I found myself the subject of an Internet meme,” Miller wrote on [his Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/wentworthmilleractorwriter/photos/a.1496071870605750.1073741827.1496070023939268/1713822728830662/). “Not for the first time. This one, however, stands out from the rest.” Posting a screenshot of the image, which juxtaposes a shirtless photo of him looking trim and a photo in which he’s visibly heavier, Miller opened up about his battles with depression and eating. “I’ve struggled with depression since childhood,” he wrote. “It’s a battle that’s cost me time, opportunities, relationships, and a thousand sleepless nights. In 2010, at the lowest point in my adult life, I was looking everywhere for relief/comfort/distraction. And I turned to food. It could have been anything. Drugs. Alcohol. Sex. But eating became the one thing I could look forward to.” During that period, paparazzi caught him out on a hike with a friend one day, yielding the aforementioned photo and stories with headlines like “Hunk to Chunk” and “Fit to Flab.” Despite the toll the unwanted attention took, Miller said he’s glad the pictures are still around. “I survived. … Now, when I see that image of me in my red t-shirt, a rare smile on my face, I am reminded of my struggle,” he wrote. “My endurance and my perseverance in the face of all kinds of demons. Some within. Some without. Like a dandelion up through the pavement, I persist.” Miller, who has spoken about about social issues such as [mental health](http://www.ew.com/article/2013/09/08/wentworth-miller-suicide-attempts) and [LGBT discrimination](http://www.ew.com/article/2013/08/21/wentworth-miller-gay-russian-film-festival) in the past, concluded by urging people who are or know someone who is struggling to reach out for help. Read Miller’s full post [on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/wentworthmilleractorwriter/photos/a.1496071870605750.1073741827.1496070023939268/1713822728830662/). _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/03/28/wentworth-miller-fat-shaming-meme) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] Barbie's body's been through a lot of different changes through the years to really reflect what's going on in the culture. Her face has changed her body has changed as trend in fashion and aesthetics shift, Barbie should go along with that. Two years ago, we launched a project internally that Was a brainstorming project and we said to our teams, if you can start the brand over today and you didn't have any rules. What would you do to make her as relevent as possible? They spent weeks upon weeks talking about the structure of Barbie's face, what her body It looks like and out of that came some big changes for the brand. We're launching a new body. [ MUSIC ] We knew that the new doll shapes would have to be in relationship to that original doll. So a lot of time Time is spent in sculpting, sketching, refining all of those aspects. The sketching for me is always very personal, because it's for me not only is it a way to express myself, but you kind of see all these separate parts start to come together to really create, [ UNKNOWN ] almost starts to develop her own personality. The face painting is another aspect that really starts to lend personality and give the doll a specific look that I think is unique. For designers, that's the really fun. In part because they'll be like I want this doll to have like a beauty mark or maybe she has like, you know she looks like she's laughing. They're the really dynamic part of what makes the doll sort of start to come to life. [ NOISE ] [ MUSIC ] Hair plays a big feature as relates to fashion dolls and Barbie's crowning achievement is her hair. Kids love to brush and comb and style the hair. And we work with a team of stylists who actually root the head on the prototype doll. This process allows us to see the prototype before we commit to any specific style. We have now a variety of hair textures and colors that are great, so working with our stylists in our hair department, we're able to kind of Make a bunch of different varieties of hairstyles to really reflect the different kinds of girls that are out there in the world. [ MUSIC ] To allow for new variety in body type seemed like the natural progression of an evolution of a brand that always strived to really reflect The culture and be current. You've got a tall doll, a curvy doll, a petite doll, and then the standard doll. And when you see them all together it looks like this tribe of young girls the way a kid might see that reflected in their own circle of friends. Or their family, or at school. Making a huge change like this on a brand with a 56 year history is complicated. We are disrupting a system of play that has existed for a very long time. We now have two sizes of feet. We have clothes that may not fit perfectly across all of the dolls. Not all of the dolls fit in all of the cars In the houses. But that's okay. We'll be uncomfortable for a little while. It's short term pain for a long term gain of really changing this brand in a way that's gonna make a difference in the world. It's exciting to be sort of the end, about to reveal the launch to the world. This is the way Now things are going to look. It's a new day, it's a new era for the brand. There's no limits to what the Barbie brand or Barbie can do, and it's very exciting. 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