| Diets in Hollywood are like sand in the Sahara: | | | | religions. |
| absolutely everywhere. Anybody who has some | | | | Celebrities certainly aren't immune to slipping up and |
| success with a new dieting concept they've come up | | | | letting their cravings get the better of their desire to |
| with is likely to go and try it in Hollywood. | | | | look good, either. Just because you don't see them |
| There are few other places on earth where dietary | | | | scoffing ice cream by the bucket (or at least not |
| tips and weight loss fads are greeted with such joy. | | | | often - sometimes the paparazzi get exactly that |
| Hollywood has more personal trainers than anywhere | | | | scoop!) doesn't mean it doesn't go on behind closed |
| else, for one simple reason: there are more people in | | | | doors. They're human, just like the rest of us. |
| Hollywood whose jobs depend on looking slim and | | | | Of course, there are a couple of things which |
| beautiful. | | | | separate celebrities from the likes of you or I. One is |
| We are fascinated with these celebrities, with their | | | | that they have more at stake. If a beautiful young |
| eating habits, and with the secrets of how they stay | | | | actress lets herself go and becomes not so beautiful |
| so slim. They surely have access to information | | | | then she stops getting the work. You or I can have |
| denied to the rest of us in order to keep their trim | | | | a bad week where we go to work looking frumpy |
| figures year after year? | | | | and pimply, but the rich and famous can't let |
| But the truth is very different. They may be | | | | themselves have an off-day, else they will end up |
| celebrities, but underneath the glitz and glamour | | | | plastered all over the gossip pages. |
| they're just human beings. We each have our unique | | | | Because of having more at stake, they tend to work |
| genetic traits, and these will effect how well certain | | | | harder at their diet and exercise regime. They may |
| diets work for us. Celebrities are no different here | | | | slip up from time to time - they're only human - but |
| and will try several diets in order to find the right one. | | | | rather than using it as an excuse to quit, they'll get |
| How do they find out about these diets? They hear | | | | right back on the wagon again. |
| about them from their hairdresser, from their | | | | Another difference is that celebrities aren't afraid to |
| make-up people, from their agents and publicists and | | | | try things. Shortcuts, tricks, and tips. Like diet pills. |
| PR guys. Or, like the rest of us often do, they follow | | | | You may not hear about Celebrity X taking a diet pill |
| the latest fashions. Celebrities are certainly not | | | | - it's not the kind of publicity they want! - but you |
| immune to the latest fads and trends, in fact they're | | | | can guarantee that if there's a successful weight loss |
| more influenced by them than the rest of us, | | | | supplement out there, they'll try it. Anything to give |
| because of the world they inhabit. They switch | | | | them a helping hand and enable them to stay |
| between diets as often as they switch between | | | | beautiful for their career. |
