Shakira’s Strict Diet Made Her Wake Up in Tears
June 23, 2010 in Celebrity Quotes, Shakira by Versus
That doesn’t sound too good… Let’s see the details:
I love chocolate. I’m addicted to it. Do you know when I realized that? Shortly before we started shooting the video for ‘She Wolf.’
“I needed a whole month to get back into shape. I danced, worked out and had to stick to a strict diet – only fish, spinach and a specially-prepared dessert with tofu. For the first time in my life I was dreaming of chocolate and cake and always woke up with tears in my eyes.”
… says Shakira.
Check out Shakira’s “She Wolf” video HERE!
I would be the same
I have a sweet tooth as well.
It must have been a nightmare.
that sounds sad.
shows the big pressure to be thin and not curvy (and with curvy I don’t mean fat, never thought shakira was to big)
thought she is famous for her music and not for being very thin…
was she fat? what does she mean by ‘get back into shape’
she is curvy, why would she change that? we all know her as a belly dancer with curves…
hmm i think in the she wolf video you could see that she lost weight-not that she was ever fat though. my first thought when i say it was WOW, those legs! sometimes, when you’re quite petite and lose 10 lb it makes a huuuuge difference…..maybe that’s why she did it or felt the need to… anyway her body is great and i cant believe she’s 33 already!
yes, exactly. it’s a HUGE pain in the ass to lose weight when you’re petite!
been there, done that, bought the t-shirt
She’s 33?!
She looks 25 :O
What? Did she let herself go so much that she had to go on a 1-month starvation diet? (You only dream of food and think of food all day when you’re starving yourself anf lacking many nutrients.)
That sounds very extreme, and the results don’t even show: she’s never been very thin.
She gained a little weight over the years but she was never what one would consider as fat. I disagree with you though. I think her diet results do show. She looks great now and should not try to lose any more weight.
aww
sux…
She does look great though.. She has a very nice body and the hard work paid off.
Realized she’s addicted to chocolate… Ummm, i call exaggeration; every other woman (maybe a man too?) would prob. dream of sugary things and desserts etc if they were to follow such a stirct diet. I love chocolate too, but i’m quite satisfied with eating it maybe a few times a month (not sure, i buy it when i want it), but you can be sure it’s the only thing in my mind when ever i’ve been silly enough to try & fast a bit for some party.
I’m definatley addicted to chocolate lol, I eat it every day and if I dont eat it I get moody! I can not be one of those people who eats chocolate only a few times a month or couple times a week, I have to either have it every single day or go “cold turkey” and never eat it at all, its really like something I’m addicted to! Luckily my metabolism is fast I guess, though actually I dont think chocolate relly makes you gain weight as much as things like cake and ice cream and lots of bread do.
I think if you eat a small amount every day then it’s really not that many calories and it satisfies your cravings, so it’s actually really good for you. Especially if you’re eating dark chocolate which has antioxidants.
Oh yes snoops, you are right, the same thing happened to me! Somehow I got over it, but a few years ago, I ate 100 grams of chocolate every single day. And often I thought: Okay, I will make it through this day without chocolate! A few minutes before the stores closed, I would run outside to get me my nougaty treat! I was never overweight though.
Shakira looks totally georgeous in the video! Truly sad that she wasn’t allowed to eat ANY chocolate at all – but on the other hand, it’s a luxury problem.
It`s not exaggeration,i know what it means cos i`m addicted to choclate and when my doctor told me that i need to take less choclate cos i was getting lots of migranes i sort of get frustrated.Anyway the sacrifice Shakira did for Shewolf was all worted cos she really looked beautiful and with a sexy body!
That sound SO sad. I don’t see why it was necessary, she looked great before, and that diet sounds like it clearly lacks variety and is far too low in calories and other essential nutrients (fat, even)…I don’t see how this could be beneficial unless you want to sacrifice your quality of life for being skinny.
What makes me worry here is that it reminds me a lot of me when I was anorexic. I used to only eat spinach, brokkoli and some fruits, except for rare occasions, and exercised for several hours a day, compulsively…it was a nightmare. Secretly I often want to be skinny again (not that skinny, but still), but thinking about the nights that I couldn’t sleep because of hunger pangs, the mornings where I couldn’t even make it to the kitchen due to my physical weakness, all the painful thoughts that I had while exercising – about massive cakes, pizzas, pasta, chocolate bars and everything else I would never eat….It was hell.
And in fact, I think it’s dangerous to even go on such a diet like the one Shakira did, since anorexia creeps in slowly, often after such diets. Someone who’s at a healthy weight and who takes care of themself doesn’t need to diet at all, and someone who’s overweight can’t help themself with a starvation diet either, just with a healthy lifestyle change. So I don’t understand why anyone would promote this dangerous sh**.
Shakira should try and impress with her musical talent again…her music has become such generic boring pop crap…(excuse my poor choice of words). She should really rethink her goals and priorities.
I think what she did is no different from what we ladies do prior to summer, or before a beach vacay. While we probably don’t look that bad, we want to look our very BEST, and why not have memories of looking as good as possible? Who wants to look at vacation pictures of themselves looking flubby?
I think everyone is taking this a little too seriously. Some people do just take pride in looking their best (that doesn’t neccessarily mean thin.. she was def toned and curvy in the video!) It doesn’t mean its “peer pressure”.
IMO it’s ok to do a little extra exercise before summer, or to cut out some unnecessary sweets. But I think that if you limit your diet that much, and if it makes you wake up in tears, you have definitely taken it too far. I’m just saying dieting can get very addictive.
Besides, nowadays that I don’t diet anymore at all but rather work out much, I don’t really have flab on me anymore, I’m just strong (and this is the kinda lifestyle change I’m talking about, that makes dieting unnecessary). It would stress me to no end if I had to get tinier now. I don’t wanna ruin my summer by thinking about my weight all the time.
I LOVE SHAKIRA SHE LOOKS AMAZING! aND I HAVE SUCH I SWEET TOOTH, I HAVE TO HAVE TONS OF CHOCOLATE EVERY DAY OR ELSE I WON’T FALL ASLEEP! THANKS GOD I HAVE A REALLY GOOD METABOLISM THOUGH AND I’M STILL REALLY SKINNY, NUT THERE ARE DAYS WHEN I OVEREAT AT NIGHT AND I FEEL LIKE SUCH A PIG
I must admit that her strict diet was worthwhile…She looks incredibly hot in the She-wolf video!
damn. i just can’t stand it when people write in capital letters
oops, that was for MONIKA of course
haha me 2. it makes my eyes bleed
she just said she dieted strictly for a month prior to the vid, she didn’t say she was doing it for life, i think it paid off
Considering she was much meatier/curvier before she crossed over to English language music, I’m pretty sure dieting (not as strict, I suppose) is certainly her way of life now.
personally i dont think its worth it to starve oneself for a month to look a certain way – you couldn’t even pay me to do that. But i guess having different sets of priorities is what makes us human, i can only imagine how much brain power was unfortunately wasted on this ridiculous diet…all the thinking about meals, counting calories, fantasizing about sweets, wondering when she could sneak in her next workout, etc, etc,…staying skinny and beautiful is a full time job in hollywood.
Duh..maybe she cried because she didn’t lose a pound. That would make me wake up in tears too… – -
uh what? is this even real? She has amazing talent, great body and from what i’ve heard of her so far she sounds smart. But reading this? Drama queen.. overdoing crap just to gain a bit of publicity. Either that or if she actually woke up with tears, a total wuss. Least she gets paid millions for that diet, if my career of millions depended on it i’d gladly live on what she ate for a lifetime
Either she was being funny or something got lost in translation here.
I’m her height so she’s my inspiration. there are very few petite women who make it as celebs or models. But, I am saddened because before she was Latina/Arabic and now she looks like Barbie, completely lacking her ethnic features.
I agree with the last part of what you wrote.
But as for the first part, I think there are lots of celebrities who are really short, just pretty much no models, cause height is an requirement for their job.
reading things like this makes me realize it’s not worth going for hollywood skinny. i eat healthy and when i’m hungry and i exercise and i’m happy with myself and my boyfriend loves it
:O…. that’s extremely unhealthy, for the body but mostly for the mind! I would say this is not setting a good example, but I know there will be people that know nothing about health telling me off!!!!!
You are so right!
recently i found out about shakira’s body issues. so sad… she’s so gorgeous. but i guess it’s true…women of all sizes have body images problems.
i hope it was her own choice to lose weight.
I always think she looks amazing!!
I feel her pain! without chocolate I would be a mess! I need sugar to LIVE! oh and for energy…………;)
I love Shakira so much! She has such a beautiful body, especially when she is a bit fuller than in the video. She is so womanly. I also love the blonde haircolor on her.
I never noticed her weight changes, never thought she needed strict diets to her videos. that never works for me, totally give up on something I love like chocolate, I end up eating more when get anxious! sad =/
Bloody hell to all the people saying that this diet paid off!
She may have lost weight, but she was never big in the first place ( Shakira has always had a very womanly and toned bod); moreover, there are less extreme methods she could’ve used to get back into shape in a month, especially with her budget!
I’m beginning to see why some people are so hyper-sensitive on this forum. Imagine that a woman with a body like Shakira’s, who most people agree looks hot, should still need to lose a few more pounds to look ‘perfect’.
She has a perfect body!!
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Omg, this is so awful. I mean, Shakira didn’t even had curves before she were going on that stupid diet. She was thin as hell before she were on the diet, and now she’s just even more thin, and it looks really, really bad! I hope she’ll just stop it, seriously before she dies or something. And if she likes cake and chocolate, and.. whatever, then I just think she should eat a lot of it!!