"I Don't Eat"
I was watching the Oscar pre-show last month on E!, and caught a refreshing conversation. There were two hosts, one thin and the other disturbingly super-skinny. Here's a paraphrase:
Thin: You are so thin! It's amazing! How do you do it! Do you eat?
Skeleton: Not really.
Thin: (surprised laughter)
Skeleton: I'm really tired of these actresses saying "I eat cheeseburgers all the time!" It's such a lie. I'm always on a diet. I never eat. All I've had today is a cherry.
It was just an offhand piece of banter but it totally stuck with me. I love that she's admitting that in order to achieve looking like a skeleton, she has to not eat. Simple as that. Ever wonder how many calories the average celebrity consumes? Snarky Gossip hypothetically breaks it down for us:
GWYNETH PALTROW: Mother-of-two Gwyneth has followed a macrobiotic diet for years. Recently she adopted a diet prescribed by celebrity health guru Dr Joshi. s well as dairy, red meat and alcohol, she is banned from eating wheat, tomatoes, peppers, fruit, sugar and gluten. Typically she eats celery sticks for breakfast, lentil soup for lunch and salmon with brown rice for dinner.
One portion celery sticks: 10 cal.
One portion lentil soup: 150 cal.
One portion grilled salmon: 127cal.
One 200g portion cooked brown rice: 216 cal.
Total: 503 cal.
Other celebs on the list include Renee Zellwegger, Kate Winslet, and Victoria Beckham. Found via Fitness Fixation.
Thin: You are so thin! It's amazing! How do you do it! Do you eat?
Skeleton: Not really.
Thin: (surprised laughter)
Skeleton: I'm really tired of these actresses saying "I eat cheeseburgers all the time!" It's such a lie. I'm always on a diet. I never eat. All I've had today is a cherry.
It was just an offhand piece of banter but it totally stuck with me. I love that she's admitting that in order to achieve looking like a skeleton, she has to not eat. Simple as that. Ever wonder how many calories the average celebrity consumes? Snarky Gossip hypothetically breaks it down for us:
GWYNETH PALTROW: Mother-of-two Gwyneth has followed a macrobiotic diet for years. Recently she adopted a diet prescribed by celebrity health guru Dr Joshi. s well as dairy, red meat and alcohol, she is banned from eating wheat, tomatoes, peppers, fruit, sugar and gluten. Typically she eats celery sticks for breakfast, lentil soup for lunch and salmon with brown rice for dinner.
One portion celery sticks: 10 cal.
One portion lentil soup: 150 cal.
One portion grilled salmon: 127cal.
One 200g portion cooked brown rice: 216 cal.
Total: 503 cal.
Other celebs on the list include Renee Zellwegger, Kate Winslet, and Victoria Beckham. Found via Fitness Fixation.
Labels: celebrity, diet, gwyneth paltrow
posted by mo pie at 11:49 AM
21 Comments:
Was this on the Academy Awards episode of Fashion Police? I recall this exchange too, because I found it refreshingly honest. It's disturbing that people have to starve themselves to meet the media standard, but what's more disturbing is when people pretend that it's an easily obtainable or natural physique--like anyone who doesn't wear a 2 must be gorging on fast food 24/7. That's a dangerous message and one that undermines people's ability to maintain a healthy and accurate body image.
Um, those numbers can't be right, can they? 500 calories is about the energy you expend in an hour of working out, and all those celebrities are always going on and one about the hours they spend at the gym. If that's truly all that Gwyneth Paltrow eats, she should have wasted away to nothing by now.
I like Kelly Osbourne's comment about how scary celebrities look in real life, because it's SO true.
quirkybook.....have you seen gwyneth?!?!
this is total crap. these ladies eat a lot more than this and they work out a LOT. They eat very clean unprocessed diets sure, but they do not eat that little because their trainers would not let them.
I can't find the link but one magazine (i'm almost sure it was NYM) asked two models (boy and girl), a magazine editor and a show producer to write down what they ate during fasion week.
And my god, those people don't eat. They guzzle multivitamins and the like but not a balanced meal. And the model ate backstage but everything was cut bite-size so now I know that when models say they eat chocolate all the time, they actually are saying they ate two bite size pieces of a sneakers bar.
But wouldn't you think they would over-report in this case? Specially since new york fashion week has been criticized for being the only one that hasn't take strong measures against super thin models. I wish I could find the damn article but the new york times site hates me.
Ha! Found it. Hopefully I'll post the link correctly. Here it is:
http://nymag.com/fashion/07/spring/28151/
I think these calorie counts may actually be close to the mark.
Why? Because I once lived on 800 to 1,000 calories a day--and worked out for at least two hours a day five days a week--and was, at 5'10, a size four. I drank at least two gallons of water and smoked a pack of Marlboros a day, as a means of staving off hunger. So, yes, I can easily imagine these women living on the estimated amount of food for years and years, especially when it means a huge income and the enormous pressure/reward of external validation.
Yikes that is low, but not surprising really -- I have read of models who just suck on lemons, or only eat a few cherry tomatoes (and there have been cases in teh news of young model dying from not eating). It is very sad that we as a society hold up being too thin as a goal for women and even worse for the young teen models who are still growing. Lady Rose
Yep - these numbers look pretty spot on...and remember, in order to maintain this look, what these folks have to maintain is really a constant calorie DEFICIT.
Ah, no wonder celebs wear extensions and weaves...maybe they have thinning hair due to malnutrition?
I would agree that those numbers sound about right. Maybe a little higher to compensate for some of the exercise. But not much more than 800.
I've lived with several girls and guys with eating disorders, who maintained size 0-4 size bodies, and there definitely were not more than 800 calories a day going into any of them.
My own father being one of them - he had himself on a 1000 calorie a day diet many times in my youth - he posted all his daily intake right on the fridge on a little chart he made. It was the only way he felt he could get to and maintain his "right" weight. He's 6'5" and a man, so I think that the equivalent for a woman would have to be 500-600 a day.
This stuff is scary! The lowest number of calories anyone - male or female - can eat and meet their nutritional needs is 1200. I think that's why so many diets in women's magazines are based on the "magic" number of 1200.
Toni - your poor Dad! Please tell me he didn't suffer any long tern consequences from his diet!
Yeah, I totally have some sort of issue because all I could think after reading about how little these models/actresses eat is how great I'd look if I could subsist on such few calories. Obviously I know that there's no way I could do it (or should do it), but the lure of skinny jeans and, frankly, acceptance/envy is strong.
I do think this is accurate. Why do so many starlets eat cheeseburgers in public and invite the paparazzi? Because they are trying to obscure the obvious truth--that their physiques are the result of unhealthy diets.
In high school and college, I typically ate less than 1000 calories/day, less than 800 was considered a good day. I smoked to help curb my appetite. Women do this, Quirkybook, and they don't waste away to nothing.
Those lists are very illuminating.
at first I misread the Kelly Osborne diet, the first item of which was a hamburger "with relish" and I thought YES! Someone actually enjoying her food. After looking at those celebrity caloric intakes, I realize I'm never going to be thin. Kind of liberating.
The same people who can't believe that women that thin live on so few calories are probably the same people who wonder why they continue to be overweight despite their "normal eating habits." Willful ignorance of caloric intake runs rampant, on both ends of the scale.
Just had to put this out there:
http://nymag.com/fashion/07/spring/28151/
Fashion model eating more than 1000 calories. Looking quite thin too. It can be done!
I eat more like the male model. :)
in response to virg's comment, yes it can be done because some people do have very fast metabolisms and can eat healthy but stay skinny. however, im willing to be that the majority of models are probably eating much less than they should to try and stay skinny
That can't be good for anyone. 503 calories a day is simply not enough to keep the average Joe healthy - let alone a busy celebrity.
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