Skinny VS Curvy

A month ago, various media sources were claiming that Anne Hathaway was on a 500 calories / day diet in order to lose weight for her role as a prostitute in Les Miserables. This week, Daily Mail continues the same story:

Life really is miserable for Hollywood star Anne Hathaway. The 29-year-old, who is filming the musical Les Miserables in London, has been gargling with egg whites every morning to help her voice sound as smooth as possible.

This is on top of a miserly diet – she is reported to be on just 500 calories a day so she can look super-thin in the role of dying prostitute Fantine.

‘Anne isn’t a professional singer and is not used to pushing her voice. She’s not talking for eight hours at a time when she isn’t working and gargling with egg whites to coat her throat and keep her vocals silky-smooth,’ says a source. ‘She knows this is the ultimate test as to whether she’s a credible musical star.’

Pictured: a slender Anne and her new short do on set on April 18 in London.

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“I exercise and eat well. I do it so I can indulge every now and then. I can have half a bottle of wine and not sit around thinking, oh my God, all those calories! However, when you’re working and getting up at 4am to train for three hours every day, drinking isn’t what you necessarily want to do. The discipline it takes to keep to that schedule sucks.”

… says Scarlett.

Pictured: The actress at the ” We Bought a Zoo” premiere at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City, New York on December 12, 2011.

On how her eating disorder manifested:

My Trainer set my calorie intake for optimum weight loss at 1,400 calories a day. Without telling her, I reset it to 1,000. Within weeks, my weight fell from 130lb (9st 4lb) to 120lb (8st 8lb), then 115lb (8st 3lb). But I still saw bulging thighs in the mirror. I dropped to 800 calories a day and fine-tuned my work-out. Every morning I ran for 45 minutes on the treadmill. I followed that with exactly 105 sit-ups – I wanted to do 100, but the five extra sit-ups allowed for some sloppy ones. If I had time, I would also do leg lifts: 105 with each leg.

Around my treadmill at home I taped cards down the length of the wall: 111,110, 109, 108, 107, 106, 105. Each time I lost a pound I removed the relevant card. It was getting more difficult to lose weight as I got thinner, so I needed all the motivation I could muster.

… says Portia.

Whiteny Port has something quite sad to share:

“Working in Hollywood, there’s just a constant pressure to look your best. For all of us who are on TV, it’s natural to be like, “I have to stare at myself all the time, I want to look the best I can. It’s hard to have that balance of wanting to look good but stay healthy. It’s push/pull.”

“For me, eating 1,000 calories a day is as bad as its ever gotten, which isn’t healthy.”

… says Whitney in the  Australian edition of OK magazine.

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Joan Collins recently told us that in her opinion, ‘people eat way too much’ – today, the veteran star is back with another quote:

“What dismays me… is the emphasis now on women who are excessively thin, both in magazines and on TV. I think that is terrifying.

“I know a producer who, when there were two actresses up for the same role, and one was a little heavier about the hips, said, ‘No, she’s too fat’ even though she was much better for the part.

“It’s impossible, if you’re over 25 or 30, trying to get down to be extremely thin. I still remember the pain of slimming down for a film when I was in my 40s, when I had to subsist on a meagre 850 calories a day. I could still do it; a couple of boiled eggs, a tablespoon of tuna, quite a lot of lettuce and a tomato. Anyone can do it but why should they? Life is too short and food is too good.”

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