Jennifer Aniston was told to lose 30 pounds to stay in Hollywood

Hollywood star Jennifer Aniston was asked to lose 30 pounds if she wanted to sustain in the showbiz.

In a new book, titled "Generation Friends: An Inside Look at the Show That Defined a Television Era", Saul Austerlitz said it was always tough to be a woman in the industry and match up to its impossibly high beauty standards.

"She had to lose thirty pounds if she wanted to stay in Hollywood. Los Angeles was a tough place to be an actress, it was a tough place to be a woman, and Jennifer Aniston's agent was reluctantly leveling with her," Austerlitz writes.

According to the excerpts obtained by People magazine, Aniston once received a callback where she was told to wear a leotard, and she jokingly said to her agent: "This'll blow it for me."