Being a model and in many cases a successful actress, is all about the skinny. Kate Moss summed up the attitude when she said "no food tastes as good as being skinny feels". She was universally derided for being "a bad role model" and encouraging eating disorders.
To to avoid any sort of similar furore, most skinny celebrities and models are at pains to lie and say that they stuff themselves 24/7, eating all kinds of crap and never missing a meal .
"I'm naturally thin" they chirp. Or "I don't know where it goes - I just have a fast metabolism."
Keira Knightley is a particularly vehement denier of having anything less than the appetite of a horse for example. A-HEM.
Any one with a brain can tell you that you don't get thighs smaller than your knees by eating normally. So Adrianna Lima's disclosure to The Telegraph was kind of refreshing in its honesty, even though what she revealed was shockingly extreme. Looking like this doesn't come naturally she confirms. It's all about discipline, self deprivation: days in the gym and being bloody hungry.
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Adriana Lima is a Victoria's Secret model, which means when she struts her stuff it's in a bra and knickers that hide nothing. And seeing as our culture idealises a figure that's stick thin with big boobs, she has to fit that image exactly.
She drinks a gallon of water a day. A gallon! She works out intensely, sometimes twice a day. And for NINE days coming up to a catwalk show she eats no solid food - just protein shakes. Then 12 hours before the show there's nothing consumed - not even a glass of water. She "dries" herself out in order to lose even more weight. "Drying out" can make you lose up to eight pounds.
The world is shocked by this - loads of outraged responses have popped up all over the web. But why? Surely it can't be a secret that extreme diets must be followed in order to stay this thin. There are fashion models and actresses thinner than Lima - they must eat exactly nothing.
What do you think? Shocked by Lima's diet revelations - or not surprised?
And most importantly: will you be going on the diet in the run up to Christmas?
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Image via Hollywood Reporter
