Jennifer Grey Looks Unrecognizable Playing Gwen Shamblin In Lifetime Movie: Photos

The higher the hair, the person to God? Jennifer Grey stars arsenic Gwen Shamblin successful the all-new Lifetime movie Gwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvation, which premieres connected February 4. Jennifer looks unrecognizable embodying the erstwhile megachurch leader. The histrion sports an aggravated constitution look and a ample blonde bouffant that’s reminiscent of Gwen’s signature hairstyle.

Jennifer Grey plays Gwen Shamblin successful a caller Lifetime movie. (Lifetime/John Russell/AP/Shutterstock)

Jennifer admitted that the translation process to play Gwen was a agelong one. “The wigs and the constitution are astir 2 hours earlier getting into wardrobe,” she told TODAY.com. “So that’s a lot, particularly erstwhile you’re moving 14-hour days and past driving an hr to location.”

Gwen was known for being the laminitis of the Remnant Fellowship Church and the Weigh Down Workshop, a Christian-based fare program. Gwen’s powerfulness continued to turn implicit the years, and she yet “demanded that religion members alienate themselves from anyone who was not a member, banished those that became overweight, threatened ineligible enactment against dissenters, and advocated for strict punishment of those who failed to travel religion tenets,” according to Lifetime. She was the taxable of the 2021 HBO Max docuseries The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin.

The Dirty Dancing star admitted that she was “disturbed” by Gwen’s promotion of disordered eating. “What I noticed and I was truthful disturbed by was that she was the dependable of anorexia,” the histrion told ET. “She was the personification of the interior dialog — I person ne'er had an eating upset but I person truthful galore friends who person been truthful severely damaged by that interior professional of perfectionism and reasoning that there’s a assemblage signifier and size and fig connected the standard that volition redeem you that volition marque you lovable to God, to different people, to yourself.”

Jennifer Grey arsenic Gwen Shamblin. (Lifetime)

Gwen’s beingness came to a tragic extremity successful May 2021. Shortly aft takeoff, a level carrying Gwen, her husband, their son-in-law, and 4 different religion leaders crashed successful Tennessee. She was 66. Gwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvation will aerial February 4 astatine 8 p.m. connected Lifetime.

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