Kathy Bates has dangerously shrunk to a bag of bones ... Sources added friends are begging the 76-year-old star of such hit flicks as Misery and Adam Sandler‘s Waterboy to stop dieting ...

So knowing that Misery’s Academy Award winning legend is physically up for the challenge could be counted as a vindication for her efforts. However, in Kathy Bates’ final piece to this puzzle ...