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Diet 'Secrets' Of Celebrities Make Us Ache For Food As Fried And Fast As Possible
Posted by Molly Friedman at 3:00 AM on March 14, 2008
If you want to look just as scarily skinny as the likes of Kate Hudson and Renee Zellweger, the solution is simple: eat nothing but boiled eggs and water, develop a healthy addiction to caffeine and cardio, and devote your evenings to chain-smoking and reading Us Weekly on the john. The latest "news" on celebrity diet secrets comes to us courtesy of the Daily Mail, who asked a handful of trainers and nutrition experts what's in between the lines of all those helpful How Kate/Jessica/Reese Got Slim stories. And even if some of the answers don't exactly whet your appetite, guessing which celebs the so-called experts are outing is almost as much fun as biting into a Double Double. Take this nugget for example:
"One of Hollywood's dirty little secrets is the 'IV diet', in which celebrities check themselves into hospital to get put on an IV so they can avoid eating altogether."
Lindsay Lohan's multiple "exhaustion"-related stays in various asthma wards comes to mind, as does GurneyGate, both the original and the sequel. But the guessing games don't end there. Apparently an actress on the set of Cold Mountain only ate two or three boiled eggs a day (picking between Nicole and Renee is a toughie, since even smushed together they barely fill out one normal person's jeans), and another was so addicted to the gym that she wound up spending her birthday there. Despite the loony techniques, we'd still sleep better at night thinking Britney may be maniacally climbing simulated stairs at Crunch rather than maniacally ordering Cheetos and laxatives at the closest 24-hour pharm.
[Photo Credits: The Superficial, Inkling Blog, Celeb Warship]
- THE BIZARRE DIET SECRETS OF THE STARS [Daily Mail]
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SteamyMcFirecrotch
Posted 4:21 AM 14/3/08
@SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley: I thought the Church of Scientology took care of "everything?"
SteamyMcFirecrotch
JSouth
Posted 4:21 AM 14/3/08
If only my insurance covered the IV diet! But seriously, eggs, water, caffeine, cigarettes, and not eating will make you skeletal?...what shocking and new information there! I like eggs, water and caffeine, but the smoking and generally not eating, yeah, I can't handle that.
JSouth
mwynn13
Posted 4:21 AM 14/3/08
@Victor Ward: Let me clarify: Not eating will make you lose weight. Then your body thinks it is in the midst of a famine, and frantically tries to conserve energy so you don't starve to death, and when you start eating again, you're no longer burning as many calories as before you went on the diet, and THEN you gain weight. That is why the vast majority of dieters put the lost weight back on, without a drastic and permanent change in eating habits.
mwynn13
Kittenish
Posted 4:21 AM 14/3/08
@DorothyZbornak: AMEN to that!
Kittenish
Shabba
Posted 4:21 AM 14/3/08
@EleanorRigby: I remember that. I think being a pretentious demon spawn was inhibiting her fluid movement.
I was so glad that chick got cut. And fake cried alllllllllll the way back home.
Shabba
lele
Posted 4:21 AM 14/3/08
yeah, i only want to hear about fat people from now on.
lele
TwiceShy
Posted 4:21 AM 14/3/08
@Victor Ward: I'm pretty sure Nicole was pregnant when this picture was taken.
TwiceShy
EleanorRigby
Posted 4:21 AM 14/3/08
apparently, though, pilates makes you a bad model. i refer, of course, to the holy grail of modeling knowledge, America's Next Top Model, and that girl they kicked off last week. On all her shoots, they kept saying that her "pilates training" was interfering with her ability to move fluidly. I reallllllllllllly doubt it was the pilates that made her awkward.
EleanorRigby
WMjen
Posted 4:21 AM 14/3/08
The pouch on her stomach is due to the fact that she hasn't eaten enough protein, so her blood has less protein in it as well. When that happens, the stuff (lymph) that normally leaks out of your blood vessels does so faster. The 'gut' isn't fat, but is actually fluid that has settled there. Hence why starving kids in africa look like they regularly drink 6 packs.
WMjen
sybann
Posted 4:21 AM 14/3/08
@DorothyZbornak: I have a GC for a jalapeno thickburger...
sybann
SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley
Posted 4:21 AM 14/3/08
@Victor Ward: Of course it would.. pilates take care of *everything*
SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley
DorothyZbornak
Posted 4:21 AM 14/3/08
Dammit, I would kill for In-N-Out right now. Why do I have to live on the wrong coast?
DorothyZbornak
Shabba
Posted 4:21 AM 14/3/08
If I am up on my gossip she was preggers at the time. Hence the bloat. I don't think Pilates will fix baby bump. But who knows...
If women worried this much about their education, health, volunteering, etc. can you imagine what a world it would be.
Instead, back to boiled eggs. I bet they had atrocious gas...
Shabba
constancescott1990
Posted 4:21 AM 14/3/08
Enough bout skinny people!
constancescott1990
Victor Ward
Posted 4:21 AM 14/3/08
So would pilates take care of that?
Victor Ward
Cacafuego
Posted 4:21 AM 14/3/08
It's called malnourishment bloat. You see it on famine-stricken children all the time.
Cacafuego
Victor Ward
Posted 4:21 AM 14/3/08
They try to tell you on the Maury Poviches and Views of the world that not eating will actually make you gain weight. This is not true. Perhaps it's unhealthy, but you'll look way better afterwards!
And I think we all agree that Nicole looks godawful in that picture, but how can someone, someone who has let her body eat away to such a degree that one would imagine even tendons and gristle have fallen prey, still manage to have a gut?
Victor Ward
Leviticus_71
Posted 6:16 AM 14/3/08
I don't understand what happened to the good old cocaine diet. It worked wonders for years and now it's gone? It's not like drugs are all that frowned upon in Hell A. Just keep a little booger sugar around and the thought of eating will only push you back to another mirror.
Leviticus_71
Katxyz
Posted 6:16 AM 14/3/08
The lower stomach is the hardest body part for women to get rid of, even if starving, because it protects your insides. The entire reproductive system lies right there, which is why it's nearly impossible for most women to get an entire flat stomach, unless they feel like getting most of their lower insides removed. That's right, kids...sometimes fat as a FUNCTION.
Katxyz
jewess
Posted 6:16 AM 14/3/08
@Victor Ward: Unless you're kidding, which is a good possibility, she's pregnant in this picture.
jewess
Algren
Posted 6:16 AM 14/3/08
NOTHING is as exciting as biting into a Double Double.
Algren
polypam
Posted 7:04 AM 14/3/08
Hey, I like boiled eggs! Preferably in a chef salad that also has lots of meats and cheeses too.
polypam
Little Mintz Sunshine
Posted 7:04 AM 14/3/08
@EleanorRigby: I gotta sign up for pilates then as I'm tired of blaming my lack of rhythm on my being a whitey.
Little Mintz Sunshine
dearheart
Posted 7:50 AM 14/3/08
@polypam: Don't forget the dressing and bacon bits.
dearheart
Victor Ward
Posted 8:55 AM 14/3/08
I apologize to anyone surprised by my egregious lack of knowledge regarding Nicole Richie's proliferating time tables based on paparazzi photographs. This is obviously a trying time for us all, but I hope that we can move past this together.
Victor Ward
Pay_Me_Or_Pay_Me_No_Attention
Posted 8:55 AM 14/3/08
@Leviticus_71: Don't be fooled. The only reason these girls are burning calories is because they keep falling on the mirror.
Pay_Me_Or_Pay_Me_No_Attention
sundaeg1rl
Posted 11:30 AM 14/3/08
Slightly off-topic: why the sudden reliance on the Daily Mail? Are home-grown stories a bit thin on the ground? Or have you been through my cat's litter tray again?
sundaeg1rl
slauza
Posted 11:30 AM 14/3/08
boiled eggs, caffeine and chain-smoking - you'd be one stinky bitch.
slauza
Cacafuego
Posted 2:12 PM 14/3/08
Why don't they just call it what it looks like? "The Dachau Diet."
Cacafuego
redreb
Posted 2:12 PM 14/3/08
I don't understand how these girls can get pregnant when they are so thin. My doctor told me that if I wanted to become pregnant, I needed to cut back on the amount of times I go to the gym...and I'm no where the near the quadruple size 0 Nic and Nicole are.
redreb
yvonnjanae
Posted 4:58 PM 14/3/08
Who is the woman in the third photo, in that terra cotta colored dress?
yvonnjanae
Lecarlso
Posted 12:31 AM 15/3/08
You gota love that as poverty and hunger rates are rapidly increasing world-wide... These bitches are voluntarily straving themselves to earn fame and fortune... And practically worshiped by adoring morons aka 'fans'... I'm going to eat a cheeseburger with ranch and fires.
Lecarlso
Rbkah
Posted 2:25 AM 17/3/08
eating nothing but eggs, caffeine for the rest of your life? How sad.
They look bony and sinewy. It boggles my imagination that this is hot. Somewhere our genes are screaming. Is it just me or has anyone noticed that all these skinny women look older than their time and dried out? And then desperately go to the surgeon to look dewy again.
Rbkah
IamnotStarJones
Posted 10:20 AM 17/3/08
since nicole and renee have oscars, it's all worth it.
IamnotStarJones