RENEE Gets Real

AS HER BELOVED CHARACTER BRIDGET JONES RETURNS, ACTRESS RENÉE ZELLWEGER OPENS UP ABOUT HER BIGGEST REGRETS, WHY SHE LEFT HOLLYWOOD AND A TERRIFYING HEALTH SCARE.

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UNDER SCRUTINY

Bridget may be weightobsessed, but Renée knows what it's like to have her looks dissected. After she appeared at a 2014 event, the internet was ablaze with plastic surgery speculation.

"You learn that your skin is not quite as thick as you need it to be," she said of the "humiliation."

RENÉE ZELLWEGER and Ant Anstead held hands as they left the London afterparty for Peacock’s Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy Jan. 29. In a rare move for the private star, the couple were joined by Anstead’s older children, Amelie, 20, and Archie, 18, along with his parents, Nigel and Sue. (Ant also has a 5-year-old son, Hudson, with second wife Christina Haack.) Sharing this joyful moment with her partner of three years and his family felt like a scene straight out of Bridget Jones — but this was real life. “She was thrilled to have Ant join her at the premiere and show him off,” an insider tells Star. “It goes to show how comfortable she is with this relationship.”

The two-time Oscar winner, 55, is back in the spotlight for the fourth installment in the Bridget Jones film series. The beloved British character — so convincingly played by Renée since 2001 that even her longtime costar