Entourage star Debi Mazar calls out the 'toxic testosterone-fuelled environment' on set as she claims she was body-shamed when she returned to work after having a baby

Debi Mazar has claimed she was body-shamed on the set of her hit TV show Entourage when she returned to work after having her second baby.Mazar, 62, played Shauna Roberts on the HBO show, the sharp-tongued publicist of protagonist Vincent Chase, played by Adrian Grenier.She appeared in all eight seasons from the show's debut in 2004 until its finale in 2011 and reprised her role for the movie spinoff in 2015.Whilst the show served as one of her biggest acting role to date, Mazar has recalled her experience on set was 'complicated'. 'Season one was a joy-fest. But in the third season, the set was a testosterone-fuelled environment,' she said.Mazar explained how it was after the birth of her second daughter Giulia in 2006 that she became 'discontented' with how she was treated at work. Debi Mazar has claimed she was body-shamed on the set of her hit TV show Entourage when she returned to work after having her second baby'I'm tough, but it got toxic towards the end for me. And I'd had my second baby and they didn't like that I got fat, even though I got skinny again,' she told The Sunday Times Style.'It was complicated because I'm outspoken and never held back my discontent. But I always was professional and I'm grateful I was on it. It was a lot of fun, until it wasn't.' The actress previously spoke about the 'misogynistic' set in a 2020 interview with Entertainment Weekly, explaining 'with TV, you don't know what they're going to write. I took a job to make money.''[Creator Doug Ellin] wrote a really strong character, but that set was very testosterone-driven and misogynistic.'Whenever Mazar was having a particularly hard day on set, she says she would 'just go into Shauna mode, and go 'You know what, f**k you bye.''Mazar shares two daughters Evelina, 24, and Giulia, 20, with her husband, chef Gabriele Corcos and now splits her time between the family home in Tuscany and her acting jobs in the US. Her career as an actress came alongside her close and long-running friendship with Madonna.The pair met back in the 1980s in an elevator at New York's famous club Danceteria where Debi was working as an operator and instantly hit it off. Mazar played Shauna Roberts on the HBO show, the protagonist character Vincent Chase's (played by Adrian Grenier) sharp-tongued publicist; Pictured L-R Kevin Dillon, Kevin Connolly, Adrian Grenier, Jerry Ferrara, Jeremy Piven in 2005'We got on the dance floor and tore it up,' Mazar previously told EW of their friendship. 'We exchanged phone numbers and that was it. We became friends!' Mazar and Madonna's friendship turned into a professional collaboration when the rising singer hired her pal to be a makeup artist on her first-ever music video for her 1982 single Everybody.Mazar later became an on-screen fixture with her friend in several of Madonna's most popular music videos for songs including Papa Don't Preach, True Blue, Justify My Love and Music, with their most recent video collaboration arriving this year with the appropriately titled Danceteria.As Madonna increased her profile outside of the music industry as an actress, Mazar also began to define herself as a prolific supporting player. She scored small but influential roles in classics including Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, Oliver Stone's The Doors, Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway, Michael Mann's Collateral, and Spike Lee's films Jungle Fever, Malcolm X and Girl 6, among numerous other movie roles.Whilst the show was her biggest acting role to date, Mazar has recalled her experience on set was 'complicated'; Pictured with Grenier and Piven in the fourth season in 2008Mazar expanded into TV when she joined the main cast of LA Law in 1993, and she scored her biggest role to date when she landed her role in Entourage.Whilst she told The Sunday Times that she has been finding it hard to find work 'especially now I'm an ageing actress' she has a number of projects in the works.Currently shooting an independent film in New York, she will premiere her next completed movie at The Toronto International Film Festival in September – The Housewife which she stars in alongside Naomi Watts. She also recently finished shooting The Last Mrs Parrish, starring Jennifer Lopez.