According to Shakespeare in Love star, Gwyneth Paltrow, the hardest part of her body to keep looking good is her butt.
Independent Online reported that Gwyneth works out almost every day to stay in shape, and when she first started getting serious about exercise and healthy eating, her trainer Tracy Anderson told her she needed to change her “square” derriere.
Gwyneth told the new issue of Self magazine: “My butt! My butt, butt, butt. When Tracy met me, she said that I had a long, square butt that she was going to redesign, and I was like, ‘Yeah? Good luck.’ The amazing thing is, she was right! And it’s still changing!”
The 38-year-old actress and mother of two (who’s married to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin nogal!) insists the secret to staying slim is finding a fitness and diet regime that works for you and which you won’t drop in a hot minute.
The Oscar winner – who has just released her own cookbook My Father’s Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness – said: “I do 45 minutes of cardio five days a week, because I like to eat. I also try for 45 minutes of muscular structure work, which is toning, realigning and lengthening. If I’m prepping for something or I’ve been eating a lot, I do two hours a day, six days a week for two weeks.”
We would trade a year of life for the perfect body
According to a new study done on British under-graduates one-third of young women would trade at least a year of their lives to have a perfect body.
The breakdown was as follows:
- 16% of young women queried said they’d trade a year of life for their ideal body weight and shape.
- 10% were willing to trade two to five years.
- 2% were willing to trade up to 10 years of life away.
- 1% said they would give up 21 years or more.
As the study admitted, the new research was based on a relatively small sample, so the results may not be representative of women in general. Although 78% of the women sampled were normal weight – or even underweight – 79% of the survey group said they wanted to lose weight. Only 3% said they’d like to gain weight.” (From LiveScience)
Of course a lot of women are already risking their futures, health and longevity in the pursuit of the ideal body. Anorexia, bulimia, depression, unsafe plastic surgeries… – Ridge Reporter