Busy Philipps was "between a size six and an eight" when she was cast as "the fat girl in White Chicks".

The 46-year-old actress starred in the 2004 comedy movie alongside Marlon and Shawn Wayans, and Busy now admits that the situation was "f***** up".

Looking back at her own experiences while watching Netflix's Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model, Busy said on Instagram: "At the time, I didn't find it problematic because it was just, like, the way things were, and I was, like, in the entertainment industry as a young woman and was like, well, that's just the way things are.

"It's really f****** upsetting. It's really f****** depressing. I'm gonna keep watching it.

"I just feel like this is my moment to remind you that I was cast as the fat girl in White Chicks. That was my role. I was like between a size six and an eight at the time … yeah, it's f***** up, but yeah, like that time was f***** up guys. It was f***** up."

Following the film's release, Busy would constantly get comments about her appearance, with people noting that she was smaller in real life than she appeared in the movie.

The actress said: "Anytime people like would see me in public, post-White Chicks, and they'd be like, 'Oh damn, you're not -- what happened to, you? You're so skinny now' and it's like, 'Yeah, no s***.'"

Meanwhile, Busy previously urged the public to remember that she's a "real person".

The movie star insisted that her real-life self is quite different from how she's perceived by the public.

She told The Independent: "There's the truth of me as a person, as an actor, as a mom and a wife, an ex-wife or whatever. A friend, an activist, a loudmouth … and then what that's spun into. Those are two separate things.

"In a pop-culture sense, the idea of 'Busy Philipps' is, like, unabashedly honest and, like, 'Let me tell you what it's like!' But I'm also a real person. And it's hard sometimes to have to keep showing up in the same very truthful and honest ways."