Girls Aloud’s Nicola Roberts: ‘I don’t work out and I’ve never dieted!’
August 31, 2010 in Celebrity Quotes, Nicola Roberts, Then and Now by Versus
Girls Aloud’s Nicola Roberts wants to make sure that you know the following:
“I don’t work out and I’ve never dieted! Can you imagine if I did? I actually have to be very conscious to make sure I eat. If I’m remotely run-down, tired or worried then I can drop weight overnight. I eat loads and have big portions but my mum’s side of the family is thin.
“I’m hyperglycemic so I have to eat a lot and often otherwise my blood sugar levels drop. And I have a lot of allergies – wheat and dairy make my skin break out. I know my arms can look skinny. I’d rather have them fuller and more womanly. But I like my legs, though. And my hair!”
… says Nicola.
However, Nicola was clearly not-as-skinny when the band was starting out (none of them were, except for Kimberly):
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UGHHH! This drives me nuts. I’m guessing that’s her in the pink top? Can’t even tell. But I hate it when once-curvy celebrities suddenly claim that they’re just naturally skinny and have to make sure they eat A LOT to stay that way and not emaciated. Hilary Duff made a similar claim in Self magazine a few years ago. Annoying.
And we all know Hilary Duff is NOT naturally skinny. lol
But yes I agree with you! It is annoying, why can’t they just come clean and say it takes a lot of hard work to stay in shape, like , say, 80% of the female population?
Except most of them aren’t really ‘in shape’. I might be nit picking but its difficult to define what in shape is. This girl, to me looks too skinny and I would never describe her as in shape
Agreed.
Its the same shiz… they start off normal, then once they hit the big time, some dude/producer steps in, and turns them into the same cookie-cutter pop starlets – all looking the same save for maybe different shades of hair.
@cheche:
Even Nicole Richie said she was naturally skinny. Do those people think we are stupid or do they actually believe the crap they are telling us?
Lol whatever nicola, you were not skinny when you were years younger and don’t people tend to gain weight easier as they age? Typical celeb nonsense coming out of her mouth.
some people lose weight
but isnt she in a girl band, dont they do lots of dance routines? maybe the weight went off touring and never went back on. although that technically is working out and she may have been eating less on tour (technically a weight loss diet also) even if she didnt realise
They broke up ages ago, half of them dont even exchange conversation anymore, so she definately doesn’t do dance routine now.
I love it when people believe their own bullcrap. It’s so obvious she’s trying to convince us as much as herself.
She is so skinny BECAUSE she believes this bullcrap. I´ve saw it many times.
Seems nowadays everyone has either a very slow or a very fast metabolism, when in fact it’s really rare. Ugh… I could however believe she just naturally moves a lot, is on the go without noticing, and that she doesn’t really crave food in the sense that people with weight problems do. Whatever. If she believes what she’s saying, good for her.
Exactly! I’m sure being a celebrity is a taxing lifestyle, Maybe she doesn’t get to eat a whole lot throughout the day. (I’m a grad student with two jobs so I understand). But don’t go telling us you were born that way. It just makes us feel bad that we a) are not rich and famous and b) cast a shadow.
wait, is that cheryl cole to the far left? she is SO much thinner now!!
That whole photo is sad. All those girls look “heavier.” How thin things have gotten…
I agree she used to have curves, the only one who still has her curves is Kimberly, Cheryl got skinnier when she became a wag
it annoys me that she doesn’t realize that being hyperglycemic has actually led her to eat a specific diet her whole life. avoiding wheat and dairy will keep you slender. what she probably means is that she’s never ‘fad’ dieted. plus dancing and practicing choreogrpahy is a work out.
celebrities need to get a clue.
I agree with you, but i think some of them need to get a BRAIN..
Yeah, whatever. If I tell myself I have allergies and all that stuff long enough so I’ll believe it, I’ll become naturally skinny too!
She either believes in her own lies or thinks we’re that stupid to buy them.. Anyway it’s annoying.
And omg to cherly cole!!! I almost didn’t recognise her!
yeaah yeah. stfu nicola
When did this band start out? She looks a good 15-20 lbs. thinner now then in that photo, and it’s probably photoshopped. It seems odd that a naturally thin person would gain weight as they get older, hmmmm. As you Brits would say, Nicola, your claim is rubbish.
Yeah right is all I can say to that *rolls eyes”.
And: OMG I hardly recognize any of them in the above picture! Just proves that we could all be turned into celebrities with a team of stylists!
yes! totally agree….everybody can be a “star” with a team of fitness coaches and some make up artists…but i really dont understand why they are telling lies….its great to be that “strong” to lose weight…i would be proud and would also encourage other people to live healthier….its like ” dont even try..you have to be perfect all naturally”……
Maybe they lie because the way they lose the weight is actually unhealthy?! IDK. Just guessing.
i really like her. bear in mind in that photo she was only about 16/17, she could have been carrying some puppy fat. i actually think with all the dancing and touring that the band did its no wonder they all lost weight and they probably just tried to maintain that
also when she started in the band she was a size 8 and now she’s a size 6 so its not that much of a difference really
interesting how when models try to justify their low weight they say things like ‘I was a teenager i was still growing’, whereas you call it puppy fat to justify her being heavier. neither have any medical standing, the only thing thats made a difference is her lifestyle not her age.
the only question is is she a liar, or just stupid?
i’m only expressing this opinion because it was the same for me when i was younger. nothing changed in my eating habits nor did i exercise/move around alot more and i was always told i was just carrying puppy fat. but i did also express the opinion that the band have been dancing and touring since they formed and that was probably how she lost the weight and she’s just tried to maintain that. i watched a documentary of girls aloud and they were conscious of putting on weight, hence my assumption that they were careful about maintaining their weight
I was chubbier in my teens then in my early 20′s. I didn’t weight much more, but I carried a lot of ‘puppy fat’ for longer than most people do
I’m not saying that she tells the truth, just that it’s possible.
True say.
I’m slimmer now than i was in my teens for sure, but then my lifestyle was very different then to what it is now. Whilst at school, and away from my mother’s prying eyes, I would sometimes eat uncopious amounts of nonsense and I only really travelled to and from school by bus. Now, I’m working, I eat differently and I move around a lot more.
It’s probably the same for Nicole. Before stardom she was probably some ordinary girl doing this and that and had a doner kebab every now and then. Being in Girls Aloud has probably introduced to more calorie saving cuisine and her schedule is probably a lot more taxing. That could explain the weight loss.
Though if she doesn’t eat wheat or dairy then i wonder what the heck she eats. It really can’t be all that filling and you don’t win weight with salad!
Well i was around 115 lbs in highschool, i am 97 lbs now (mid twenties). I was healthier and happier back then, i was a semi-pro martial artist and probably had a more desirable body now. I am seriously underweight (bmi of 16.6) but this is what works for me now and what i want now. I did not suddenly get a faster metabolism, nor did i lose any puppy fat (i had none). So yeah, whatever.
It sounds like you just lost muscle because you work out less now. I don’t see how that relates to the subject, but that sounds perfectly plausible.
Actually i do not need a perfect stranger to make assumptions on what i lost and what i didn’t lose since you do not know me, my age, my eating or my working out habits? What was the point and how it is related to the subject? Read what the previous posters said and how they were defending Nicola. Just like her, i was never fat nor chubby nor did i have puppy fat or whatever they call it and simply decided to lose weight. I can tell whatever i want to, as no one really knows me and can make accurate observations. That’s what everyone needs to remember when reading a statement of a celebrity: maybe it is honesty, pr stunt, saying something just because, making a fuss, being an idiot etc etc. No need to try to explain and defend everything the said celebrity pours out of his or her mouth.
geez…sounds a little defensive there. i don’t find anything rude about the response you got and so perhaps you should take a breather and relax? sounds like you got a bit worked up over nothing. by the way, i, too, do not really understand your point of delving into the specifics of your weight loss (which does not sound very healthy, given your near anorexic BMI) and find it a bit triggering, tbh. take care, please.
I knew this quote would get a strong negative backlash, but I’m glad she has said it.
If we’re going to talk about diet, body and fitness, then I think we should be able to talk about all diets, body and fitness with equal objectiveness. People like her exist. Even if she isn’t one and is just claiming to be one, it exists.
I think people just don’t like hearing, “I eat everything and don’t work out” because they associate it with gloating, when in reality is just an answer to a question in the same way that, “I barely eat anything and work out 2 hours a day” is.
Okay, true, but there’s a difference between people who are naturally skinny and people who are lying. Somebody like Keira Knightley, yeah, she’s naturally skinny. So is Miranda Kerr. Both of them have good skin and hair, which lends credibility to their claims that they eat plenty and are just naturally thin. But this girl? Her face and hair make her look like she’s literally 60 years old; and an old-looking face with thin dry hair on a very thin body always makes me think eating disorder (or starvation diet). So that’s why I think she’s lying.
Have you seen Keira Knightley years ago? She most defiantly was not as skinny as she is now. As for hair and skin…well it’s all these make up product and make up artist that make it glowing and genetic also play an important role in skin and hair quality. I wouldn’t say i take good care for my skin and hair as far as eating goes but all the hairstylist say i have very healthy hair and my skin has no blemishes and no pimples even tough i eat tons of sweets and almost no vegetables and fruit. Just saying you can’t judge someones health based on their appearance it is almost always misleading.
she looks so much better after she stoped tannig and dying her hair. I think she is so beautiful!
Oh comeon every celebretie says the same f*****g thing and it really drives me mad.How come every celebretie is naturally thin and they eat whatever they like and stay in shape?!As for Nicola sooo sorry but i don`t see her in shape at all,well to be excatly i don`t see her beautiful at all
Ok….I’m so sick of celebrities and their talk of fast metabolism. I know that they are not rocket scientist but there is no such thing as fast metabolism any scientist can tall you that people who are fat have faster metabolism than skinny people because their body needs more energy to function. There have been several researches and documentaries made on that topic and I just can’t stand the ignorance anymore. The fact is and it remains that she had to go on diet eating less calories than she uses up to loose the weight from when she was younger and now to keep the weight she has to eat certain amount of calories to maintain it and it depends on her lifestyle and weight but i doubt that she can eat more than 1500 to maintain her current physique. And about the poppy fat stuff…well that is also a myth people have poppy fat when they are twelve not at sixteen or seventeen there are also researches on that. So weight loose and keeping it of is all about mathematics and people who are “naturally” skinny are probably under eating themselves without knowing eat because they do not meet their nutritional needs based on their lifestyle and weight. There was a documentary on BBC about it there were two women roommates and one claimed to be eating all the time and not being able to gain weight the other one who was fat said that she doesn’t eat a lot and she can believe that her roommate can eat so much and stay skinny. And the doctors did the measurements to see their metabolic rate and they measured their food consumption and the result was that the fat girl as i said before had faster metabolic rate than the skinny one and that the fat one who claimed she is not eating a lot was actually overeating and the skinny one was under eating. So i think it’s time for celebrities to put their head in the book and get educated so they don’t make fools of themselves as their diet is all they seem to ever talk about.
I saw that documentary. It was so good. People tended to have similar metabolisms but completely different diet habits and idea of what “healthy eating” consists of.
I had an ED as a teen, and my whole family is super thin, some naturally, some unaturally. It is ONLY the ones that eat nothing when they think no one’s watching and pretend to eat more than they do that boast of high metabolisms and eating masive amounts of food. They are so annoying. And they always act like they are concerned over my food intake, which is more than theirs, in order to show off how “much” they eat. They talk about how much they eat, but I’ve never seen the actions.
Sorry for the rant, this is a MAJOR pet peeve of mine.
I think the people who talk of having a high metabolism and eating tons of junk food are 9 times out of 10 ppl with eating disordered behaviour rather than just healthy eating practices or a fast metabolism.
*without knowing it
Oh…versus isn’t Kimberly now the curviest of them all? Cuz if i remember correctly there was once an article about her curves and how she feels about them.
Yes, she is. I said that Kimberly is the only one who has maintained her weight – all the other are skinnier now.
she has to work out or she would be flabby because of all the weight she lost…plus her gastrocnemius ( muscles in the lower leg) are very proeminent…she does work out…hard
If she’s hyperglycemic and eats a lot and often that means her blood sugar levels must be skyrocketing out of control. She needs to get her facts straight and probably meant she is hypoglycemic.
THIS. hyperglycemic would be like being diabetic. i hate when people are so idiotic that it makes it impossible to tell whether they’re gaffe-ing or lying
Everyone goes on about how Kimberley has the best figure but I disagree, she has fat legs and a dumpy lower body. Cheryl and Sarah have the best figures, Nicola also has a nice figure and Nadine used to have a great figure but went a bit too far but is still very pretty.
Everyone knows it takes eating healthy and working out to have a skinny and toned body. That is why we get annoyed when someone like this says it comes naturally.
This is NOTHING to brag about.
Why do some celebrities brag about not working out like it’s a good thing?
LOL @ anyone who brags about not working out.
Thank you for saying that! Bragging about not taking care of yourself is so silly. The more I read about health and fitness the more I realize how essential exercise is to basic health. I’ve always been on teams when i was younger and never felt worse after I stopped working out for a while, once I got out of collegiate sports. I am more apt to feel sorry for people that don’t/can’t work out than do i envy them. It’s the best medicine
it’s like when anyone over the age 5 talks about how much they hate vegetables. lol. 1000+ cool points! I totally understand not being physically capable of working out, but the ones who make the choice and act like it’s admirable irk me.
Kimberley is a real woman with a proper figure. real woman have curves all the rest are skiiny minnis and need a burger.
My god, don’t they all look different! Cheryl’s face looks sooo different now, maybe it’s the styling.
Nicola didn’t look as thin back then as she does now. They look healthier back then, none of them were overweight.
I didn’t even have to lift a finger to stay thin years ago. What changed me, having kids of course. Your body forces itself to gain weight off of your diet when you’re pregnant. It was definitely a new experience for me. I’m sure once she has a few kids she’ll be starving herself to lose weight (like Gweneth Paltrow) and constantly talk about dieting and exercise.
Cool story… Rachel Bilson’s comment applies here… journalists need to cool off the obsessive food questions its getting weird
Workouts aren’t just for people who need to lose weight. If she really is naturally skinny, she won’t manage to put on a few pounds by eating, but she could build some muscle by going to the gym. I am pear shaped and I used to have a really skinny upper body. If I did put on weight by eating, it would just go to my lower half, but once I started working out, it got much better. I ganed some on my arms and defined my legs and my bum and I feel like my body shaped changed. I’m more of an hourglass right now. So maybe this girl should hit the gym once in a while.
gained *
its important to weight train for anyone who wants to lose weight or stay in shape, it actually will help you blast fat even when you’re not exercising. this is why cardio isn’t as good as people thought it is
i like her hair there! she looks so cute. she is a bit too thin for my taste. i reckon she would be teeny tiny in real life. beautiful skin too
skinny lair!! just look at the picture of the old time of girls aloud…
Kimberly had the best figure in the old pic and she still does really, as well as Cheryl. Also the old pic shows that cheryl has always been a beauty. Its amazing how toned down pop stars were during the nineties, and even celebs in general. If you look at music videos from the nineties singers weren’t half as dolled up as they are now. Can you imagine a press shoot for a girl band being done in jeans these days?
i think she looks like the love child of cilla black and paul o’grady.
Lol she’s always reminded me of Paul ogrady for some reason
Wow, Cheryl Cole looks SO different. Much prettier there, imo.
LOL I love when they pretend being that skinny is natural. It looks better, yes, but it’s all a result of a starvation diet. Thinking otherwise is both naive and stupid.
But that’s the great part about being a celebrity, no one would give a shit about you if you looked normal (which usually means you have to be really skinny).
SHE’S DEFINITELY LYING!
so why doesnt her head get smaller too?
are you guys saying she was fat before. she was not fat before.