Billy Bush Tells Tara Reid She Looks “Too Skinny” In Awkward ‘Extra’ Interview: “You Want My Honest Opinion?”

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Tara Reid‘s health has been called into question ever since she bowed out of Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test only two episodes into the second season. While she has fervently denied speculations of an eating disorder, the American Pie star faced even more ridicule over her body in a cringey new sit-down with Billy Bush.

In an interview with Extra on Thursday (Oct. 26), Reid opened up about the negative criticism she’s received over the years. Despite being told she’s “too skinny” by social media trolls, she promised she’s “the same weight” she has always been and that she eats “all the time.”

“It’s been going on for years,” she said of the rumors. “But there’s no eating disorder. Like, zero. I never had one. Like, seriously. You’ve known me for, I don’t know, over 20 years. Do I look any different?”

Bush — who asked if she wanted his “honest opinion” — then told her she looked “a little too skinny.” However, Reid, 47, chalked her thinning body up to the fact that she’s getting “older and fragile” since “that’s what happens to older ladies.”

Things only got more awkward as Bush suggested she try a “muscle-building program” to get her body back on track.

“I don’t think people should be making comments. I don’t think they should be saying nasty things or whatever. I also think, as your friend, that I would maybe take a look at some kind of muscle-building program,” he said, to which she gracefully replied, “That’s what I said. We should probably do that. For next year, if we’re gonna do Special Forces, we have to [do] massive [amounts] of that.”

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During her short stint on Fox’s Special Forces, Reid tearfully discussed the bullying she’s faced since starring in American Pie.

“I get bullied a lot and I just wanted to make myself a stronger person and I thought this could help,” she said on the show. “Everyone says like, ‘She got so old-looking, she looks bad. She looks like shit.’ People still judge me off when I was 18. I’m 47 now. I can’t play American Pie anymore.”

Reid continued, “I feel like sometimes I’m like a broken bird, kind of. I want to have thicker skin and not let people bother me so much.”

While she may not be in her 20s anymore, Reid joked to Bush that she would be the “MILF now” — much like Jennifer Coolidge as Stifler’s mom — if the iconic sex comedy ever got a reboot.

“We all want to do one,” she said of the possibility of another American Pie movie. “We’re just waiting for it. There’s a lot of talk about it. But who knows? There’s talk about everything.”

If you or someone you know is struggling with an eating disorder, visit the NEDA website at NationalEatingDisorders.org.