London, July 21 : Oscar-winning actress Julia Roberts has admitted she struggled eating masses of pizza and pasta for her new film `Eat, Pray, Love.'

The star admitted while she enjoyed the eating, after several takes, the novelty wore off.

"It was hard on take 10 on a giant plate of pasta," the Mirror quoted Roberts as telling The Daily Record.

"It is a challenge and I love a good meal - someone suggested I had a spit bucket but I can''t do that because it makes me gag. It just grosses me out.

"I''ve always been a friend of food. I probably put on about seven pounds in Rome when we were shooting. I ate a lot of pizzas in Naples. It was just great," Roberts said.

Food-lover Julia asserted she never felt the pressure to slim for the spotlight, since becoming a star.

"That is a strange thing that happens. People get wildly famous and they get incredibly slim," she said.

"I don''t know. It never happened to me. I look the same. I guess that is my staying power. My fighting weight, she added.

`Eat, Pray, Love' is an adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert''s best-selling novel about an American woman who goes travelling "to find herself" after getting divorced.

It will be released in September this year. (ANI)