Debbie Reynolds: 80s Exercise Icon

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A fairly obscure old exercise video made by the late, great Debbie Reynolds has recently been uploaded to YouTube and is picking up attention as a camp classic.

For the video, which was recently posted in full on YouTube, Reynolds invited several of her Hollywood pals—Dionne Warwick, Teri Garr, Rose Marie, Florence Henderson—and a crew of younger women in lycra and leg warmers to sweat with her for an hour. The studio where this took place—bubble-gum-pink carpeting, the word “Debbie” lit up in giant razzle-dazzle lights, and, for some reason, a crystal chandelier and a pair of Doric columns—looks like the Barbie Dreamhouse meets the mansion from “Sunset Boulevard.”

Still, the real star of the video is Reynolds’s longtime friend (and sometimes foil) Shelley Winters. In Reynolds’s video, Winters shows up wearing sweatpants and a sweatshirt that reads “I’m Only Doing This for Debbie,” and then refuses to do exercises with the rest of the group. Instead, she sits in the back, behind rows of Olivia Newton-John look-alikes, goofing off and heckling Reynolds. “Hey, Debbie, are your bulges supposed to hurt?” she asks.

During some thrusting exercises, she jokes that she used to do similar moves in a motel; at another point, she asks how many of the women have slept with Howard Hughes. (Several, including Reynolds, casually raise their hands.) During an ab routine, she opts simply to lie on her belly.

It really is worth watching, absolutely hysterical. :D

 
You surely never sat and watched this for an hour and a half? :D

WTF?
 

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