The 51-year-old "Will & Grace" star said she was ‘too skinny’ while on shows and she went from a size 8 down to a size 2 when she started in the role of Grace Adler in 1998, telling late-night talk show host and podcaster Jameela Jamil that she “couldn’t fit into clothes” at the time and would leave fittings “hating my body and hating myself.”.

"I loved my costume designer, she would always say, 'Don't worry,' and she would talk to her assistant and say, 'OK, can you call over and get a larger size?' And that was sort of the thing that was always on repeat all the time,” Messing recalled on Jamil’s “I Weigh” podcast (via “Entertainment Tonight”).

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Left to right, Sean Hayes as Jack McFarland, Megan Mullally as Karen Walker, Debra Messing as Grace Adler, Eric McCormack as Will Truman.

“I was lucky enough to be invited on the red carpet to the Emmys and the Golden Globes, and that was the same time that ‘Ally McBeal’ (1997) was at its height and Calista [Flockhart] was the ‘It’ girl and Portia de Rossi also was so, so slim, and she’s spoken openly about her anorexia, so it’s all within sort of the same theme,” Messing said, agreeing with Jamil’s sentiment.

Cast members from the comedy series 'Will & Grace,' from left, Eric McCormack, Sean Hayes, Debra Messing and Megan Mullally. .

“I was way too skinny,” Messing said.

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