How’s this for irony: Super-skinny celebrity Victoria Beckham has banned size- zero models from walking the runway in her denim fashions. The Daily Mirror reports the former Spice Girl, nicknamed by some British tabloids “Skeletal Spice,” has hired voluptuous Brazilian beauty Daniella Sarahyba to represent her brand. A source told the Mirror: “Victoria wants to give out a positive image that you don’t have to be ultra skinny to look good.”
Daniel Radcliffe apparently has become a wizard – at working out. The “Harry Potter” star showed off his six-pack abs in a series of sexy shots to promote “Equus,” a London West End play Radcliffe is appearing in. Radcliffe plays a stable boy with an erotic fixation on horses in the play that opens Feb. 27.
Gwen Stefani dished to Elle magazine about how she shed her baby weight. The singer kept up intense workouts until two weeks before the birth of son Kingston. “I cried during my last session. I was like, ‘I can’t breathe, I can’t do this any more. What am I doing?’ It was crazy. All of my life I’ve had to work hard to stay in shape,” said Stefani, 37. She regained her pre-pregnancy figure quickly because “if I didn’t have an album coming out, there’s no way I would have got back into shape in that time.”
On “The Sopranos,” Michael Imperioli portrays a heroin-addicted, fast-drinking, hotheaded mobster. Off screen, the actor credits martial-arts grandmaster Tae Sun Kang for turning his life around. “I was in terrible physical shape. I smoked a pack a day,” Imperioli, 40, told The Associated Press. “Taekwondo has transformed our family in body, mind and spirit.” He quit smoking after taking up the martial art four years ago. His wife, Victoria, their sons David, 9, and Vadim, 5, and Isabella, 16, Victoria’s daughter from a previous marriage, take classes in Tribeca, the Manhattan neighborhood where the Imperiolis live.
