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Jonah Hill is the Male Jennifer Hudson

All I have to say is WOW! what a difference. Jonah Hill has seriously reduced! I wonder how he accomplished this intense weight loss, I hope he did it in a healthy as sustainable way. He as been over weight since childhood so I am sure that being connected to his body in this way is a whole new experience for him.

Us Weekly reports that Hill set a goal of losing 30 pounds, and though “he gained weight at first,” as a friend told the magazine, he shed the weight through a nutritionist and trainer. And it helped him really kick tail.

Where the weight loss was for the film 21 Jumpstreet I wonder if he will own the lifestyle change of healthy diet and exercise. I am sure that this will alter his career, as he can no longer play the “funny fat sidekick” this should be interesting to watch, maybe we will now see if he has any chops for the dramatic! You go Boy!!!

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American Women More Confident Than British Women About Their Bodies, Poll Reveals

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We may worship the slender figure of one Duchess of Cambridge, but a new study shows that American women are actually somewhat more confident about their bodies than British women — in particular, about their chests and rear ends.

After polling 8,000 women from the U.S. and U.K. as part of a “Summer Confidence” study, beauty company Mama Mio found that 35 percent of American women “loved their boobs,” while only 20 percent of U.K. respondents felt the same way.

Similarly, 30 percent of U.S. women said they loved their butts, where only 20 percent of British women were fans of their own bums.

When asked how they felt about their overall body image, 15 percent of American women gave the positive response, “I was made to be naked,” while only one out of ten UK women felt so sure. And when it comes to feeling beach-ready? 30 percent of American women said they felt happy in a bikini, while only 12 percent of British women felt the same way.

British women do have one surprising area of confidence: their legs. While only one in four American women said they love their legs, 40 percent of British women answered positively about their stems.

But before American women start feeling all superior about their positive body image, Mama Mio did find one disturbing fact: despite loving their breasts more than British women, American ladies were still more likely to want plastic surgery, with 10 percent saying they “need a boob job” versus 5 percent of U.K. women.

Why are we not surprised?

Stay tuned at Mamamio.com for the second half of the Summer Confidence study, where a new quiz in October will see if confidence levels have risen during the summer months.

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Giuliana Rancic Giuliana Rancic: I Can Eat Whatever I Want

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lots of people are talking about the picture you posted online of you eating a big plate of pasta in Italy.
Yeah. I went to Italy, and I consumed way too many calories a day, but I didn’t care. Bill and I made a deal on the plane over that we can’t say “no” to anything, including food. Like if Bill says, “Let’s have a crepe,” I can’t say no — even though I just had a gelato, and I’m full. We indulged like crazy for two weeks, but we took really long walks in the vineyards, and we stayed active. And when we got back to Los Angeles, we were back at Equinox the next day on the treadmill.

 

Now I will preface this with the fact that Giuliana is not exactly my favorite television personality, mainly because when I watch her entertainment Red Carpet reporting she seems overly preoccupied with the thinness of the stars she interviews, and there was also her resistance to gaining 5-7 pounds to increase her fertility when she was trying to get pregnant  which has led me to believe that she might be one of the women Demi Lavato was talking about. That having been stated where her statement might at first seem like she has a healthy relationship to food and her body image, there are some things that pop out at me on second glance. Like the idea that she and her husband made a “deal” that she can not say “no” to anything, which implies that she regularly does say no to certain foods, which would mean that she then doesn’t eat “whatever she wants”. In my head the conversation went like this:

Him: okay honey we are going to Italy great food great wine, no dieting let’s just enjoy ourselves …

She gives him “the look”

Him:  Come on it’ some of the best food in the world pasta , and pizza

Her: And some of the most fattening…Bill I’ll be huge!!!

Him:Okay let’s make a deal, we don’t worry about anything we are on vacation, no work, no cameras, let’s have fun, you can’t say no to anything, you have to eat everything

Right after she states that she has to eat anything and everything she buttresses the comment with a statement that they walked a lot and “Stayed active”, one could infer that she mentally justified the consuming of more food then usual with being able to work it off, by staying active.Then she tells us that when she returned home she was back on the treadmill. This sounds to me like someone who is acutely aware of what they eat, and not like a person who eats whatever they desire. Granted she is on television so being camera thin might take some effort and restriction (totally understandable), or perhaps she is responding to the fact that her weight has been called into question as she does look mighty frail. I could be reading too much into her statement but I am hyper sensitive to words, and language and this made some of those internal red flags go up. It still make wonder, “Methinks the lady doth protest too much”,  just saying,

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Pointe Magazine features 4 Dancers’ Food Diaries

I feel really relieved. On Pointe Magazine’s website, they had an article on 4 dancers and their diets. The article is called Your Best Body: The Food Diaries. The 4 dancers they choose were Patricia Hachey; a company member of Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Jennifer Robinson; a corps dancer of Ballet West, Ariana Lallone; a departing principal dancer of Pacific Northwest Ballet and Kathleen Breen Combes; a Principal of Boston Ballet. Each dancer wrote out exactly what they ate on a given day and under it explained their everyday diet/nutrient intake and how it helps them physically and mentally keep up  as a professional dancer. Check it out:

Hosted by Pointe Magazine
Four pros reveal everything they ate for a day.

Complexions’ Patricia HacheyPhoto by Steve Vaccariello

Dancers are mad scientists of nutrition: They know what every bite will do to their bodies and are constantly adjusting the formula. We asked four professional dancers to tell us exactly what they had to eat on a given day and why. These aren’t menus that were carefully crafted by a nutritionist. They’re the actual food that fits into each dancer’s hectic schedule, giving her the energy she needs—and the treats she’s earned.

Patricia Hachey
Company dancer, Complexions Contemporary Ballet
Performance day on tour in Lucca, Italy

9:15 am Complimentary breakfast at Hotel Universo:
• Multivitamin and vitamin D
• One glass of orange juice
• One cup of coffee
• Granola and yogurt topped with fresh kiwi
• One hard-boiled egg with salt and pepper

3:00 pm Snack after class at the Teatro Del Giglio:
• One Kashi GoLean Chocolate Caramel Protein & Fiber Bar
• One tangerine

5:00 pm Mid-rehearsal snack:
• One big handful of raw almonds
• One pear

7:00 pm Dinner break at the theater before the show:
• Yogurt with müesli
• One hard-boiled egg
• One banana

10:30 pm During the second intermission:
• A shot of honey

11:45 pm Dinner at a restaurant in Lucca:
• Fresh bread drizzled with olive oil
• Insalata classico: lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, fresh Parmesan with olive oil and balsamic vinegar
• Gnocchi al pesto
• One glass of house red wine

Late night snack at the hotel:
• Two pieces of dark chocolate

Hachey is a vegetarian, so making food choices that will sustain her high activity level, particularly while on tour, is a constant challenge. She chooses hearty plant-based foods like granola and müesli to keep her feeling full for longer. She meets her protein quota with snacks like eggs, almonds and protein bars. “A vitamin supplement was recommended by my doctor because there are important vitamins usually found in fatty fishes or certain meats, which I no longer eat,” she says.

A dancer on tour is often a scavenger; you never know when and where you will find the kinds of foods you need. The fruit, nuts and hard-boiled eggs Hachey snacked on for most of the day were lifted from the complimentary breakfast buffet at the hotel. The Complexions dancers call their food stashes their “bodegas.” Included in Hachey’s bodega stash was a packet of honey (which she’d also swiped at breakfast). She ate it during the second intermission to give herself a shot of natural sugar to push through the rest of the show.

If you want to see the others click here it’s really interesting

MR

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Micheal Phelps’ Stunning Diet

 

PHEW! Talk about eating a lot! Micheal Phelps’ diet is the craziest I have ever heard of! He eats 12,000 calories a day and probably burns more than half of it training. Here is what his diet consists of:

Breakfast: Three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise. Two cups of coffee. One five-egg omelet. One bowl of grits. Three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar. Three chocolate-chip pancakes.

Lunch: One pound of enriched pasta. Two large ham and cheese sandwiches with mayo on white bread. Energy drinks packing 1,000 calories.

Dinner: One pound of pasta. An entire pizza. More energy drinks.

 

Supposedly, eating all of this food helps his energy and endurance for swimming, since he is an Olympic swimmer that trains about 8-12 hours a day. But I don’t know how he does it! This hurts my stomach just reading it! Check out this video:

 

MR

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Demi Lavato Opens up about her Eating Disorder

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It was almost a year ago when Disney’s last “It” girl Demi Lavato checked in to a rehabilitation to treat her cutting and eating disorder, recently she spoke about her disorder.

My family has known I’ve had issues with food and eating for about six years now. I was able to check in with them but it got to a point where I just was lying about eating and about being happy. There’s a lot of pressure these days. I feel like I live in a city where no woman eats!

And therein lies the problem and the reason I created a forum like this. I cannot imagine the pressure she was under as a teenager going through puberty with her body changing, and  having to deal with the pin thin ideal body type of Hollywood. In the midst of preparing to transition from tween queen to a young adult artist I am certain there was a great amount of anxiety. There had to be, people who are not in the industry or mega stars on the world stage being chased by paparazzi and scrutinized feel the pressure everyday, and when you are a teenaged girl who probably is the chief breadwinner of your family and is responsible for a number of people’s livelihoods it must be stressful, and to that the pressure to be “perfect and it is a recipe for disaster.

I think her last comment about living in a city where no woman eats is telling, there is a whole city where people are preoccupied and paranoid about every little thing they put in their mouths! It have always thought it ironic that all of these wealthy stars have the money to dine at the best restaurants that money can buy and yet they don’t EAT– and if they do, they probably harbor so much guilt that they can’t even enjoy it! I guess you can’t have your cake and eat it too!

I’m glad that Demi got help and also has the courage to speak publicly about it, someone might read her words and know that they are not alone! Thank you Demi.

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Are Megan Fox’s Botox Photos a Fake?

 

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Well, according to New York Plastic Surgeon Dr. Nicholas Vendemia, the pictures are photoshopped, saying:

The wrinkles that start horizontally in the middle of her forehead and curve down towards her eyebrows don’t exist in anyone. The muscles in the forehead and brow simply don’t create curved wrinkles like that. The wrinkles Megan is showing us don’t coincide with brow anatomy, nor do they match the facial expression she is making.

 

And these are the times when you have to say “Who really Cares?”

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Corine Bailey Rae has “good genes”? What are “good genes”?

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I am a huge fan of her music of Corrine Bailey Rae, I came across this video interview of Corrine titled “Corinne Bailey Rae on having good genes”. Reading that title, my thinking box was going: “Good genes? What are considered good genes?”In the clip after being asked about her thin and fit body, Corrine Bailey Rae responded by saying “I guess I have good genes” and it  made me think “what are good genes?”. I don’t believe in good or bad genes, but I thought it was a good question. I’d love to know what you think, tell me your idea of “good genes”. I’d love to read everyone’s opinion.

MR

 

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Is Mila Kunis Contradicting herself When talking about Beauty and Sexuality in Hollywood?

 

 

 

The Huffington Post featured an article on Mila Kunis and her GQ spread to promote her new film Friends with Benefits the title of said post was:

Mila Kunis In Panties In GQ, Talking Sexism In Hollywood (PHOTO)

The opening paragraph goes as follows:

As if you weren’t well aware that her upcoming film, “Friends with Benefits,” deals expressly with the sexual side of male-female relationships, Mila Kunis is giving an eye-opening reminder on the cover of this month’s GQ.

It may not be by mistake that she forgot her pants on the way to the shoot.

But Kunis is far more than just a pretty face (and body), as she points out in the accompanying interview. A star since she was the hilariously bratty teenager Jackie on “That 70’s Show,” Kunis has impressive comedic chops, too, and laments that it is so often difficult for women to be taken seriously when it comes to funny in Hollywood. (read the rest here)

And if you do you will see that they pull her comments about women, beauty and sexuality from an interview she gave last year to About.com, and not the GQ article. The quote is below.

 

On About.com Kunis talks about beauty and sexuality in Hollywood:

In Extract, Cindy’s able to get away with things that others might not have. Part of the reasoning behind that is that, supposedly, pretty girls live by different rules. In real life, Kunis doesn’t find that to be true. “Personally, no. I don’t. I really don’t. I do think that there are women out there… You look at L.A. No one’s really from L.A. All the pretty people from the world all come to L.A., so L.A.’s just filled with beautiful women. But I feel like there’s two groups of them. You have one that solely relies on their looks. And that’s fine if that’s what they have to get through life, so be it. And then you have the beautiful women that actually have something else to offer the world and are constantly fighting against the stereotype. I do not look like this every day. I, in fact, very rarely look like this, so no, I can’t even get out of a parking ticket. I don’t exude… I think there are certain actresses, absolutely, that exude a certain amount of sexuality or whatever it may be that men just completely fumble over. I do not feel that I’m that person, personally,” said Kunis.

 

Now the title of the post makes you think that she made this statement in the GQ interview, the cover of which she graces wearing either a bikini or a bra and panties and drinking a cup of coffee (you’re going to have to figure out that logic on your own). If she did it would be a grand contradiction as she is using her sexuality and beauty to promote herself. Truthfully, everyone in the business does this. It’s almost a prerequisite to pose half nude on a cover to promote your project and “talent” be it acting or singing so we kinda can’t be mad at her for that. But clearly the Huffington Post is making a point, and calling her out by putting the image and the quote together, albeit sort of out of context, but we might forgive them because the point is valid). Some would say if you are not part of the solution then you are part of the problem and maybe if more stars didn’t strip down for photo spreads– pun fervently intended maybe the industry would have to shift. We all know how it works I guess my question is how do we get it to work differently?

We do have proof that sometimes pure talent will stand out, take Adele- she is at the top of the charts equal to the public pantie wearing Lady Gaga and she is a full figured, fully clothed woman who is making real music, writing and performing without tracks behind her and people are loving her (I am not saying that Lady Gaga sings to tracks, or does not write- That last comment is in reference to other popular artist who are successful and are not as shall we say as purely talented as much as brilliantly produced and manufactured).

And what about super power Tina Fey, the only time I remember her stripped down was in Vanity Fair when she was making fun of the whole idea of the sexualized female artisit. She’s kept her close on, made us laugh, think, and has become like the White Oprah of the comedy genre.

So perhaps it might be possible to “make” it with your clothes on. It looks to me that the concept of casting “couch” or using one’s sexuality is not longer relegated to that particular piece of office furniture or hooking up with big wigs but has been sublimated to include all types of PR, print, television interviews, scandalous “leaked” photos, sex tapes, staged relationships anything that exploits the body and sexuality to get attention and create a buzz the least of which at times is the person’s authentic talent. And just so it’s clear this is not directly against Mila Kunis but the system in general. What do you think?