If you don’t remember Scarlett Pomers then it’s likely that you never watched the show Reba. She was one of the main characters as she was the middle child of the titular character and possessed all of the attitude. During her stint on the show however Scarlett kind of came and went occasionally and by 2007 when the show went off the air she kind of disappeared for a while. It might seem natural that such a thing would happen but a lot of of the actors managed to stay busy and find new projects to keep their career going. Scarlett however seemed to drop off the map for a while, though she did resurface from time to time as though to let people know that she was still doing okay and was still around. The truth about what was going on in her life came out during the show however and became a rather big deal to those who could call themselves fans.
Scarlett dealt with a very serious case of anorexia nervosa.
If you need a refresher course on just what this is, anorexia nervosa is an obsessive disorder that forces people to worry incessantly about what they eat and how much. Some folks exercise for hours a day to burn off whatever weight they think is too much, and in doing so can cause themselves a great deal of harm since the body needs a certain amount of body fat to function properly. By the time she checked herself into a treatment facility Scarlett weighed only 73 pounds and was gone for much of the fifth season of the show. After leaving the treatment facility she went back to the show and finished out the sixth season until the show was taken off the air in 2007.
People didn’t hear from her until around 2010.
In 2010 she came out with a band titled SCARLETT, which brought her moderate success as the band only put out one album with five tracks. Since that point she’s been mostly into keeping herself healthy, practicing her yoga, and showing up occasionally for public events and other such things. It seems that that she’s been more focused on her music and other hobbies for a while since by 2014 she decided to retire from acting to follow other pursuits. While she’s still relatively young and could have a long and healthy career ahead of her thanks to her treatment it would seem that Scarlett has seen enough of the limelight and just wants to live a simple existence. There’s no telling if she might consider a comeback one day but right now it doesn’t seem too likely.
It wouldn’t really be fair to say she got overlooked a lot on the show but it would be accurate to say that while she was one of the main characters she didn’t often get the same attention that the others did. This could have something to do with her disorder and how much time it made her miss or it could have been something else entirely. The point is that Kyra, while being one of the big fixtures of the program, was still able to slip by the notice of the audience more than once when she wasn’t onscreen, almost as though she could be forgotten or replaced without much difficulty if such a thing had ever happened. Unless the situation was unfolding around or was centered on Kyra there wasn’t a lot of inclusion with her other than on a peripheral level. It was at times partially due to her character and the attitude she affected or the fact that she was the middle child, but Kyra really didn’t get a lot of play when compared to the other characters.
It’s also not known whether or not her self-image was affected by the show and the demands of show business for actresses to present themselves in a certain way. A lot of actresses and actors have obsessed about their bodies throughout their career as the public seems to want to see thin, healthy, attractive, almost model-like actors that are anything but representations of real life. That almost seems like it could be one of the reasons why Scarlett suffered from her disorder, but the chances are good that there was something else tied to it. Anorexia nervosa won’t always just develop on its own as there are cultural and societal factors that can cause it as well.
Whatever the case for her departure from show business it would seem that she’s doing just fine now and has been leading a much more fulfilling lifestyle away from the camera. Her choice to leave didn’t seem to upset a lot of fans which only goes to show once again that while she was a part of something during the Reba show, she was still looked over way too often.
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