NICOLE KIDMAN - KIDMAN TO PILE ON POUNDS FOR NEW ROLE

KIDMAN TO PILE ON POUNDS FOR NEW ROLE

NICOLE KIDMAN is following in the steps of BRIDGET JONES star RENEE ZELLWEGER - by piling on the pounds for her latest film role. The Hollywood beauty, 40, is said to have gained 10 pounds (4.5 kilograms) in order to look convincing as a post-war seductress in The Reader, a romantic comedy co-starring Ralph Fiennes, due for release next year (08). A source tells British newspaper the Daily Star, "She loves her new bosom, but she finds eating so much a struggle and it is making her sleepy." Zellweger, 38, famously shot up three dress sizes to play unlucky-in-love Jones.