Gorgeous Shortland Street actress Marianne Infante is a powerhouse – talented, passionate, loyal and busy. She’s all of those things irrespective of her height, yet she often she feels defined by her stature.
Crying as she tells Woman’s Day that she has long struggled with body dysmorphic disorder, Marianne – who plays Madonna Diaz on New Zealand’s longestrunning soap – reveals she has sought counselling due to triggers of how she was teased during her school years.
Marianne, who is 150cm tall, says the trauma came flooding back after a medical crisis during a three-week holiday in Mauritius last month.
She suffered a severe attack of chronic gastritis
