Partially due to her experiences filming "Mermaids", Cher turned down leading roles in such films as "The War of the Roses" and "Thelma & Louise". According to Berman, "After the success of "Moonstruck", she was so worried about her next career move that she was overly cautious." In the early 1990s, she contracted the Epstein–Barr virus and developed chronic fatigue syndrome, which left her too exhausted to sustain her music and film careers. Because she needed to earn money and was not healthy enough to work on other projects, she starred in infomercials launching health, beauty, and diet products, which earned her close to $10 million in fees. The skits were parodied on "Saturday Night Live" and critics considered them a sellout, many suggesting her film career was over. She told "Ladies' Home Journal", "Suddenly I became the Infomercial Queen and it didn't occur to me that people would focus on that and strip me of all my other things."