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Trainer To The Stars Sells Out Demi Moore's 'Meaty' Thighs, 'Fleshy' Naomi Watts And 'Soft' Madonna
Posted by Molly Friedman at 3:40 AM on April 8, 2008
It's not just British tabloids ripping apart celebrity body parts; now their own trainers are turning against them to make a buck. Fitness expert Rob Parr has written the summer release Star Quality, in which he shells out detail after "fleshy" detail about the problem areas of stars like Demi Moore, Naomi Watts, and Madonna. And though the blurbs on the back merely outline the "types" of bodies each star had (hourglass, long and slender, and athletic, respectively), he delves far deeper into their Before states in the pages: "
[Demi] lacked a defined waist, carried too much meat on her thighs, and was, by movie-star standards, thick overall."
Parr writes of Madonna, "When [she] and I started working together, she was very soft." Madonna, soft? Considering recent pictures of her whether she's airbrushed or not, we didn't realise putting the two in the same sentence was even legal anymore. And poor Watts, whose perfectly fit body provided the only moments of solace throughout the entirety of Funny Games gets the following distinction from Parr: "fleshy...we needed to trim and tighten so that she would fit the mold of a bikini-clad babe." Did he really just say "bikini-clad babe" in a book? Now we understand who's feeding stars impossible-to-believe bites when it comes to blabbing about how much they "chow down" to the press.
[Photo Credit: news.au.com]
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TryThisAtHome
Posted 4:37 AM 8/4/08
The M.O. is to tear you down to build you up, thus facilitating the need for a personal trainer. Can be a very destructive relationship.
TryThisAtHome
hack-a-rific
Posted 4:21 AM 8/4/08
Ohhhhhhhhh, ok so he was trying to make them all look like scary, no-shape lollipos? I get it now, thanks!
hack-a-rific
SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley
Posted 3:56 AM 8/4/08
Naomi Watts is fleshy? Oh dear...
SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley
raincoaster
Posted 2:21 PM 8/4/08
@TryThisAtHome: Yes, they virtually all do it but it has less to do with hostility towards clients than hostility towards their previous personal trainers. It's all code for "when she was working out with Cal Worthington, her thighs were fleshy and she was a wobbling pyramid of cellulite, but thanks to two weeks with me she's hard-bodied!"
I used to do some fitness writing and most celebrity trainers talk about the stars' "flaws" with permission, because the PRs know the more people can think "yeah a few situps and I'll look like Jennifer Aniston" the more people will love their clients. Ray Kybartis (sp?) is one who doesn't seem to do this, and I like the guy. He drops Madonna's name with a thud every chance he gets, but he is all about the work itself, or at least he's got me fooled.
raincoaster