Kimora Lee Simmons: ‘I have shed the fat by not eating’
April 17, 2011 in Celebrity Quotes by Versus
Model / actress Kimora Lee Simmons recently shared a few things on how she lost weight:
“I have shed the fat by not eating. But I don’t like to tell the kids that so they think they shouldn’t eat. No, I watch my portions, and I eat leaner proteins and vegetables and stuff like that.
“So I woke up this morning and ordered breakfast at 4 AM. I had egg whites scrambled, spinach, turkey bacon and a glass of orange juice. The reason I had such a big breakfast is because I hadn’t eaten in two days. I’ve had fruit, I’ve had a smoothie, I’ve had a protein bar, but it’s not like I’ve had Doritos.
“I was out one night with two famous sisters when a bunch of burgers were being passed around. I went to grab one and the two of them looked shocked. They said ‘we don’t eat.’ Then after I grabbed a burger they said they were joking but I knew they weren’t!”
… says Kimora.
now that’s candid!
No kidding. As much as it grates me to admit it, i had a fitness trainer for 3 days a week for 1 hour, watched what I ate, and didnt get results for 4 months;
I ordered a dress online that was UK sizes instead of American, and I ended up with a dress TWO SIZES too small; I ate nothing but soup for weeks, but fit into it in time for a weddings. F*@#$! not right, I tell you…, it’s not supposed to work like that – I was miserable!
damn, thats alot of work to not get results for like 4 months!
I dont get it. Can some
-one please explain me what she’s trying to say. Sorry about my comment being divided into two parts, dont know why it happened lol.
I respect Kimora for her honesty. Her comment seemed more real than a lot of other celebs and tbh many of us have done some extreme calorie restrictions for an event, so I don’t see the harm in it. Plus, she looks great!
There is harm when you are someone famous making a public comment. True or not, it has an impact on the people reading it. I think she might have use the wrong words, in the sense that she ate very little those two days, but who knows really. About the sister not eating burgers, not everybody does, it don’t tend to eat them, but I’m not particulary against it, but I get what she is trying to say.
i agree. i respect what she is saying, and perhaps her words were minced but her approach could have been more tactful bearing in mind the age of girls who are going to read her comments and just think ‘not eating = thin. easy i’ll do it to’/
wonder who the two sisters are though? i first thought the olsens?
hiltons? i wonder if people will focus on that more than anything else. and they said ‘they don’t eat’. not that they don’t eat burgers.
. Plus alot of my mothers friends and my aunts were always doing really silly extreme diets- i just thought they were a bit mad.
no idea who this woman is, but she sounds like a twit. though i have to say no amount of celebrities announcing they don’t eat would encourage me to do the same, not even when i was a chbby teenager. it was never a mystery to me as to why i was the weight i was. i knew i was a little piggy
taking her children out of the equation, who obviously are influenced by parents behaviour and attitudes, I’m not sure about how much impact celebs and their words have. I’ve never witnessed any influence in my friends, beyond the odd ill advised fashion trend, and I do think some people are simply very sensitive and you cannot protect them from everything. from everything i have ever read or observed we are influenced by the people closest to us, and we seek out celebrities who represent everything we already believe.
It sounds like you had a good head on your shoulders (and still do), and you are lucky for that. As you can see from the case of your aunts and mother’s friends, a lot of women are easily swayed into trying extreme diets, and I’m sure they read about them in fashion and women’s magazine. I think it’s very likely that many girls see an image of an attractive woman whom they envy, read about her starvation diet, and then think ‘I should try that too if I want to look like that.’ Especially if it looks like the person is happy and healthy, it leads to thinking that if it didn’t hurt them, it wouldn’t hurt me…
I get what you all mean, but people tend to forget that eating disorders are based on a psychiatric issues not just a desire to be thin. Regardless, no celebrities dieting or lack there of, is going to make a kid starve themselves for long. I think it mostly effects people who are already dieters,. Why is there such a defiance against truth? If she starves herself to get thin, so what? I think if people actually heard the truth, then maybe surpreme thiness wouldn’t be such a desire, for all the work it entails (vs. lying and saying you eat all the time, never work out, etc…and then when people try it and it doesn’t work they believe they have failed) A lot of people starve themselves to get thin, some people are genetically thin, others work out hard, some can’t get thin at all. I’d rather have the honest candids
i agree. I think when you hear people talking about how effortless beauty/thinness is it can make young girls feel inadequate as it they were born deficient because they get spots and their boobs don’t point skywards and their stomach isn’t perfectly flat. And I’m not just talking about stars. i’ve started to notice more and more how people behave in terms of eating and body image, and I have observed that it has almost become quite competetive with some girls going to great lengths to be ‘seen’ to be pigging out. My cousin is becoming guilty of this and I am worried because I know for a fact that she has made herself throw up before. her friends however just insist on believing she is ‘naturally skinny’ and I worry that she is so concerned with keeping up this appearance that it will become a habit.
I thought exactly the same!!! At least she is honest and tells us which diet most of the celebs choose … it is easier to loose the weight when you just don’t eat at all than to eat in an healthy moderate way.
Extacly, at least she´s honest. Who wants to bet those two famous sisters are Kardashians lol
not so sure!!! the kardashians look like they eat a lot, maybe the Hiltons hahaha
or the Olsens
Could be Simpsons, Minogues, Spears, Duffs , Williams, Knowles, Lohans, Geldofs, Cruz, Deschanels, etc..
But I think it probably the Lohans, Hiltons or Kardashians.
Probably not the Hilton’s Paris has been photographed eating burgers plenty of times, not the Kardashian’s they eat- But it does sound like something they would say as a joke… Owsens-maybe or Lohan’s I’d say…
wow.. there are a lot of famous sisters, i never thought about how many before!
Soon after this quote came out, she posted on her blog kinda defending the quote and saying she’s not “anorexic,”
Here’s the link: http://necolebitchie.com/2011/04/15/kimoras-lee-simmons-bashes-anorexic-reports/
haha thats funny, either she’s saying the truth the first time or the second time….
well, she’s not anorexic, but she clearly has another kind of eating disorder.
any reduction in calorie intake will cause weight loss. Whether it is healthy or not, probably in the long term not. I certainly could never starve myself like that, i get hungry so frequently and my body never shuts up about it.
She contradicted herself several times.
Egg whites, turkey bacon, spinach and OJ is a big breakfast? Sounds like a reasonable size breakfast to me…
Then she says she hasn’t eat for 2 days and lists off what she ate. I guess only doritos count as food for her?
Ughh. This woman makes NO SENSE! Sounds like she really is restricting how much she eats, so basically she should say that when she’s asked how she lost the baby weight!
My thoughts exactly. Her entire comment is chuck full of contradictions. I’m confused.
Agree her comment is so “wtf?” from start to finish. Her attitude to food sounds so unhealthy also.
Agreed. Talk about a mixed message. I think her ‘honesty’ is rather irresponsible, or at least, irresponsibly worded. You’d think her PR rep would have made sure the filter between her brain and her mouth had a tighter cap on it. Her kids, or any ‘kid’, will read this and think that she’s skinny because she doesn’t eat, period. That’s the only message self-conscious young girls will get from this silly statement.
yeah i agree.! even in the first paragraph. she says she did starve herself and she just doesnt want her kids to know but on the other hand shes actually just eating less. ?
its still a bit understandable that maybe eating less is starving herself in her view?
maybe shes just not good at talking..
i didnt even understanf if she did take the burger or not .. :/
lol at maybe shes just not good at talkin
i agree thought, the whole text is so weird i can’t comment on anything she said really.
Bad bad advice… but she looks great here
i dont think that was advice? maybe shes just talkin bout her life??
she is annoying.
It could be the Barbie Twins
Or the Olsens
Or the Duff sisters
Or The Hiltons
Either way, they probably were kidding and this lady’s probabl just oversensitive to food cracks since she’s dieting.
i dont think they were kidding, and my bet is the hiltons
Well she is skinny but is living an extremely unhealthy life style. I was reading all the comments under “Glee Girls do Marie Claire” no one even mentioned Lea Michele or Dianna Agron but EVERYONE mention how they couldn’t believe Amber Riley was promoting such an unhealthy life style to the world and were disgusted by it. I think Kimora is being just as unhealthy, if not more. But if you’re being unhealthy and you’re skinny it’s ok? And if you are “fat” and “unhealthy it’s not? That is just really messed up to me. I know a thin and beautiful girl who never works out, eats like crap and has high cholestoral (this girl i’m talking about is only 30) but she LOOKS like she is healthy but you just wouldn’t know because she is skinny. No one can claim someone is healthy or not unless they can see what they put in their bodies on a regular basis.
I know someone exactly like that, a very shot size 0 that has high cholesterol, diabetes and heart disease in her family. She is 21 and already has raised cholesterol. People complain about the overweight/obese because it’s so plain to see, I can accept that. This woman is promoting starving as nonchalantly as saying she went to the grocery store and people are only commenting about how good it is she’s being honest.. I’m a little afraid for the few pro-Ana people who I know follow this site
My mother and her friend had their cholesterol checked. My mother is quite muscular, active lifestyle, good diet but also has a fair bit of fat on her. Her friend is very slim, little fat (no muscle either), inactive lifestyle and poor diet. Guess who had the high cholesterol ; )
holy shit this girl is disordered.
she already retracted/corrected her comment. it’s on cocoperez. http://cocoperez.com/2011-04-15-kimora-lee-simmons-on-losing-25-pounds-the-healthy-way
I read the retraction, if you can call it that…all she’s doing is lambasting the magazine for printing what she said. she never denies saying that she doesn’t eat, she’s just saying it was irresponsible to print those things. Either way, it’s pretty clear both from these quotes and the “retraction” that she does not have a healthy relationship with food, and very clearly restricts her caloric intake (sometimes to zero calories/day) on a regular basis.
If that hair is real, I think it’s gorgeous.
she wears extensions but it is lovely.
Wtf…
idc,, i really like kimora,, i think shes very candid the way she talks i feel like she being very honest and not bsing and not just putting up a fake face,,
Wow looks like she’s lost quite a bit of weight! I think what she meant by ‘eating a big breakfast’ (which btw, is not a BIG breakfast but its probably big enough, to the point where she gets pretty full) – anwyay I think what she meant by the doritos etc comment is that she has been changing her eating habits and eating only healthy food and a lot less carbs (I read that somewhere else) and so since she isnt eating her usuaal doritos and and pasta etc she feels a lot hungrier and so felt she should eat a ‘big breakfast’ rather than just maybe a bowl of fruit for breakfast
Versus, I read somewhere that Snooki from Jersey Shore lost a lot of weight, can you do a post on that if possible? Thanks
her “big breakfast” made me laugh…. i eat double that if i am very hungry.and that portion sound like very normal, not big
I seriously doubt it was hiltons, kardashians, duff’s, or even the olsens. Maybe audrina and her sis though! I know audrina doesn’t eat much
I wonder if she has a publicist. If so, he/she is probably getting drunk right now.
Honestly, it’s not like her kids are never going to be able to read the things she says. I wonder what famous sisters would be hanging out with her? I don’t see her as being friends with the McCord girls or anything, but someone in fashion probably.
sadly, her children don’t have to read this excerpt to pick up on their mom’s disordered pattern. trust me, i grew up with a mother who used to go on starvation-binge cycles, and it was very obvious to me from a very young age that there would be entire days that she eat a thing, and other days that she couldn’t stop eating…Even in grade school I knew it wasn’t normal and I felt a sense of embarassment (and annoyance) for her.
Well I can’t hate on honesty
I don’t understand why people (especially celebrities) think of burgers or doritos when they compare eating and not eating. You can eat a lot of homemade meals, vegetables and fruits instead of fast food crap and be thin. Not skinny, but thin.
Apparently, Kimora “clarified” her statements but I feel she was being much more honest the first time. Everyone eats no matter what weight you may be but as someone who has friends of all sizes that I spend plenty of time with, I can tell you that the skinny ones barely eat. They actuall plan their days around not eating. For example, waking up at 12, working out for 45 mins to 1 hour, doing their make up and getting ready for another 2 or 3 hours(yeah, I know WTF??),pretending to shop, goof around and then have dinner at 7 or 8. And the days that they’re working are worse because they don’t get to sleep in and are probably dying of famine by dinner. SMH! Unfortunately, a lot of women are like Kimora and I just don’t get it how they haven’t dropped dead yet.
I really appreciate her honesty. And I believe those sisters are the Olsens or the Hiltons. NOT the Kardashians, not the Duffs (both are looking really healthy these days!!! I must say they’ve been looking healthy for the last couple of years) and definitely NOT the Deschanels or Lohans (Ali has ALWAYS been thin but it looks like she’s natural thin, not like Lindsay who’s a bit curvier but diets to the extreme to get that skinny look)
I agree that most women are influenced by the people who are closest to them.
I think we’d put too much power on someone else (like a celebrity or the media) to blame them for disorderly eating.
Totally 100% agree. My issues started at 11 and I lived in a place where tv and celebrities weren’t important. My mother never had that stuff in the house, her issues started when she was a child as well, They weren’t allowed to watch tv or have those influences. I think it’s just easier to blame someone else for their own suffering than understanding that starvation starts from within
who is she????? (sorry i live in england)
she is pretty tho what heritage is she???
She’s a supermodel. Or was, actually. She’s a model turned designer now. She was huge in the 90s! Huge like Tyra and Naomi, if I’m allowed
whoa, I would expecting something wiser from a woman of her age. she got a bit tangled up in her own words..
i have been trying to loose weight, working out, eating right……so i usually have to fast for a couple of days to loose any weight. the first day i get a slight headache so i might eat a small portion of protein. then the second day i am not even hungry. it helps to drink some coffee too. so since i already made it through the 1st, hardest, day the second is pretty easy and i don’t even think about food. so this time i went 5 days and i lost 6lbs and i can fit into a smaller size pant, and i can see a big difference in my legs and stomach. and i am still alive, so it’s not like you are going to die or something after a few days.
you’re not losing fat. not 6lbs of it in five days. you’re dehydrating and losing water. fasts are part of many religion, so no you won’t drop dead, what you will do is create an unsustainable and extremely unhealthy cycle, which even if it does result in a weight you are happy with, will mean a lifestyle of misery and deprivation. weight doesn’t go on overnight, so it don’t expect it to come off overnight either. I’ve lost weight slowly, it wasn’t painful, it didn’t make me feel deprived, i didn’t have to worry when i was out with my friends about what i was going to eat, and the feeling now a couple of lbs away from where i want to be is great, because i know its not going back on, its not a fad, its completely sustainable and enjoyable. and i am not addicted to the high of losing weight, which wierdly does seem addictive to some people.
Exactly amazon, anyone who thinks they can lose 6lb of pure fat in a week is deluding themselves. Realistically 1-2lb of actual fat, and the rest will be a combination of water and lean tissue loss. Not good. Much better to lose the fat slow and steady and keep it off permenantly.
Yeah, she’s right – eating nothing will obviously make you lose weight but you’re going to have to start eating again after depriving yourself and it’s likely you’ll end up binging and eating even more then you should be therefore gaining weight. Plus, if you strave yourself you aren’t going to have energy to workout therefore you’re going to end up being skinny fat and you won’t have any muscle at all….your body will eat away at the muscle you do have so unless that’s the look ya want….
I have lots of muscle,I work out with weights and do cardio.
I just can’t budge the fat unless I fast. I have two kids so I have
Belly fat and butt/thigh area chub. But my arms are fat
free. It is not true that as soon as you eat normally again it will come back
as long as you don’t eat junk food.
Well perhaps you should get your thyroid checked then.
At least she’s honest, and she looks great.
I don’t get it. She eats but she doesn’t eat?
Who cares if she eats or doesn’t eat, or says she doesn’t eat? She looks good. Regardless of it being healthy or not, not eating, or eating very little works and that’s all that matters. It isn’t her job to make sure young girls feel good about themselves just because she’s a celebrity. & Honestly, no girl is going to develop an eating disorder just from reading that unless they already had extreme psychological issues with food in the first place.
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but she;s gorgeous tho