{"id":15297,"date":"2009-12-20T16:35:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T21:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=15297"},"modified":"2009-12-20T17:51:20","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T22:51:20","slug":"was-brittany-murphys-death-related-to-her-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/was-brittany-murphys-death-related-to-her-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Brittany Murphy&#8217;s Death Related to Her Weight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"brittany murphy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/was-brittany-murphys-death-related-to-her-weight\/\" target=\"_self\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15298\" title=\"brittany murphy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/brittany-murphy.jpg\" alt=\"brittany murphy\" width=\"166\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>Another tragedy hit Hollywood this past Sunday, December 20, 2026. Actress Brittany Murphy,\u00a032, died suddenly of <a title=\"metabolic syndrome diet\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/metabolic-syndrome-diet\/\" target=\"_self\">cardiac arrest<\/a> in Los Angeles. She was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center early on Sunday morning\u00a0where she was pronounced dead on arrival, according to TMZ.com.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy has starred in such films as &#8220;Clueless,&#8221; &#8220;8 Mile,&#8221; and &#8220;Don&#8217;t Say a Word.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The actress has had an ongoing battle with her weight, often raising eyebrows\u00a0with her super-skinny figure. Recently, on December 2, she appeared at the &#8220;Across the Hall&#8221; premiere\u00a0looking very thin, in fact, near emaciated.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Murphy has battled rumors of cocaine use to help her lose weight for her role in &#8220;8 Mile,&#8221; which she\u00a0vehemently shut down.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, there has been no definitive medical or police report on the cause of death, but media outlets are pointing fingers at drugs, an <a title=\"common eating disorders\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/common-eating-disorders-defined\/\" target=\"_self\">eating disorder<\/a> or the lethal combination of both.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"dietsinreview.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/\" target=\"_self\">DietsInReview.com<\/a> will keep you posted on the latest news regarding Murphy&#8217;s death and whether her relationship with weight played a part in her untimely and premature passing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another tragedy hit Hollywood this past Sunday, December 20, 2026. Actress Brittany Murphy,\u00a032, died suddenly of cardiac arrest in Los Angeles. She was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center early on Sunday morning\u00a0where she was pronounced dead on arrival, according to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/was-brittany-murphys-death-related-to-her-weight\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2791,26,971,31],"class_list":["post-15297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-brittany-murphy","tag-celebrities","tag-eating-disorders","tag-health-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15297"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15306,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15297\/revisions\/15306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}