It’s certainly far from healthy, but these 5 celebrities have all admitted that they’ve starved themselves at one point or another. Some had to drop weight for a role or were forced to skip meals because of their work. Others wanted to quickly lose weight or opted to take on a diet they now know was very unhealthy because they weren’t eating enough. Here are their stories about how and why they starved themselves.
Brooke Shields
Brooke had to starve herself while performing on Broadway: “You do eight shows a week and basically eat one meal a day. You’re famished at night after the show, but you’re worried about your voice. If you go right to sleep you get reflux which burns your vocal cords. You dance for three and a half hours and you’re moving constantly, but you go to bed hungry.”
Lily used to starve herself before filming music videos: ”I felt quite brave shooting the ‘Hard out Here’ video. In all my past videos and photo shoots I’ve starved myself for days to get into what I felt was a good enough shape. But in this one, I was wearing leggings! And a skin-tight T-shirt and a bra over the top – you can see the bulge! It wasn’t necessarily pretty, but I felt very strongly that I wanted to do that. Because I’m a woman now, and I have two babies, and I don’t want to hide it.”
Petra Nemcova
Petra starved herself to look like the other models: “I may have curves now, but when I started it was in the middle of the heroin chic phase. The likes of Kate Moss and Jodie Kidd almost forced everyone to be really skinny. I tried many diets, from eating very little or just protein to having only fruit all day. It was terrible for my metabolism and took me years to recover.”
Tori Spelling
Tori admits to starving herself to lose weight but was told to cover it up: “My publicist had given me clear instructions about what to say about my weightloss. Women didn’t want to know that I had lost weight through dieting, not exercising. I didn’t want to be the a**hole who didn’t work for it. So I said that I swam. It was sort of a bad choice. I can’t do much more than a doggy paddle. I really don’t exercise much, period. So I took off my weight the old-fashioned way. I like to call it the Just Keep Your F**king Mouth Shut and Eat Air (sic) diet. It’s all the rage.”
Winona Ryder
Winona starved herself for her role in ‘The Private Lives of Pippa Lee‘ and says it helped her performance: “I try to fill up in the morning… especially with this movie, it’s hard to stay really emotional on a full stomach. Like there has to be this weird craving that’s going on if you have to cry. It’s a weird thing.”
