Britney Spears celebrated dropping to a size 6 with some retail therapy, In Touch Weekly reported. Spears purchased nearly $10,000 worth of clothes in one hour at Barneys in Beverly Hills, the magazine reported, including several clingy cashmere sweaters.
Gwyneth Paltrow is taking desperate measures to lose her bulk after giving birth to her second child in April. The Oscar-winning actress, who favored a macrobiotic diet for years, is on an even more extreme diet, the Sun in London reported. Drawn up by her long-term health guru, Dr. Nish Joshi, Paltrow started a punishing eight-week regime in the summer that includes an odd suction therapy that involves pressing jars full of hot air to the skin to improve blood flow and remove toxins. A source told the Sun among the foods banned from Paltrow’s diet are wheat, dairy products, sugar, gluten, alcohol and red meat. She is allowed turkey, chicken and white fish but no swordfish. Other celebs on the Joshi plan include Cate Blanchett, Rupert Everett and Kate Moss.
Milla Jovovich admits she has been trying to get pregnant but believes her size 0 figure is preventing her from having a baby. The Ukraine-born model, actress and fashion designer, 40, told the London Evening-Standard she has been trying to have a child with her British film director partner Paul Anderson, whom she met in 2002. “I’d love to have a baby, and I think the only thing stopping me is my active lifestyle,” she said. Healthy adult women have a Body Mass Index of between 18.5 and 25. Size 0 models have a BMI of less than 18, medically underweight, according to doctors. British midwife and nutritionist Zita West said she treats about 500 women a year who are too thin to get pregnant. “Weight affects fertility in a big way,” she said. “Too far underweight and periods can just stop.”
Roseanne Barr had her stomach stapled several years ago and has become content with her weight, if not her age. The comic’s stomach is “the size of a walnut and I still maintain my weight at 180,” she told Newsweek magazine for its Nov. 6 issue. “I used to just gorge. Now I gorge all day on smaller amounts. I’m still fat and I always will be and I don’t care.”
