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Oh, cmon. Let's just come out and say what these women really do to lose weight and stay "svelte" - they starve themselves.
Not really. What is their job all day ... to look good!
If I spent my 9-5 day at the gym with a trainer instead of behind a desk writing comments on websites, it wouldn't be hard to look like them.
I always find it amazing when magazines or blogs talk about how stars change their bodies with a diet or exercise routine. While I'm sure that fruit and protein shakes may contribute to their looks, the real reason is that these celebrities are all taking carefully constructed drug cocktails of HGH and a variety of steroid-like substances. Why is the media so hesitant to call them out on their (sometimes illegal) drug use? I guess because so many editors and writers are consuming the same stuff...
And none of these women have had any cosmetic work done either--its all good genes, right?
I saw Elton John and Billy Joel last night. Elton doesn't worry about it and just dresses around the weight. And to whoever that asshat was a few months ago who said Billy Joel was irrelevant...that two man show last night out here in flyoverland blew the roof off. Three and a half hours of two 60 year old guys who gave one of the best concerts I've ever seen. Non stop, high energy, fabulous backup musicians,worth every penny of the $175 tickets and every seat was sold. What recession?
It is not true that celebrities starve themselves or take cocktails of drugs! I especially don't know where that one is coming from. While certainly many of them are naturally thin and many others make it sound easier than it is, the "secrets" are exercise and a good diet. People actually need far less food than we tend to think they do and sticking to a reasonable diet is not "starving yourself." An average height woman eating 1200 calories a day is not starving herself, but most people eat three times that and so they have no idea what normal really is.
Where are the pictures of men? Why only women? Most looked great in the "before" picture. Please, waste no more space on this type of article. It's an insult to all women.
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Sarastro3- those aren't good looking fit women. They're painted and they photograph well. Fit women have muscles and shouldn't get called "thunder thighs" for having an 800 pound free weight leg press. Fit women photograph as fat- because we've been taught that only the anorexic look good on film.
Dorathea Lange's WPA pictures look like movie stills until you find out that these people aren't rich Hollywood. They're Dust Bowl sharecroppers literally dying of starvation. Doesn't that tell you anything?
I've worked on movie sets. Those women don't look healthy without having color painted onto their faces. And the neuroses about food! Audrey Hepburn was so thin because she spent WWII in Belgium literally starving and never recovered from it. And that's the standard- fatal starvation?
Halle Berry in that black dress....just wow.
I also followed the same Five Factor diet that Mandy Moore did. One of the few practical diet/exercise plans out there that's easy to stick to and produces results. And the author is a celeb trainer as well.
Is it just me or does Gwyneth Paltrow look better in the before picture? Before = skinny woman; After = emaciated stick insect alien creature.
A lot of these very thin women look sick! Take off the make up and they're strange colors and a lot of them are half out of their skulls from the meth and all the other stuff they take to be so thin. And then it's to be noted that production companies pay for trainers and special food delivery and a lot of things we don't have a chance of ever having. And all the Lipo and Lifting...
And many of these women held up as perfect are the head cases we send to treatment for eating disorder now. It's women bullying other women. And gay designers choosing women who's bodies look like adolescent boys. Get models with tits for gods sakes! Women have them, men like them, put them on the runways!
Screw 'em all. Even hard body size 10's like me get called fat just as nasty bullying, and I'm sorry but I look great. And I won't buy stuff with insect women in ad campaigns. Vote with my dollar.
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