One of my favorite gossip moments over the past several years is the now-annual tradition of figuring out what Victoria Beckham did for her birthday. When she turned 37, she looked at a fruit plate. When she turned 39, she looked at a cake. When she turned 40, she thought about brownies. Victoria is very, very conscious of her weight. That’s been the case for as long as she’s been famous (two decades!). She never eats the cake. She never eats the brownies. She might have a few bites from a fruit plate. And as famed celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck says, she’s really “uptight” about what she eats, even when she visits restaurants famed for their cuisine.
Veteran celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck has revealed that he finds Victoria Beckham ‘uptight’ and says that the star only orders spinach or other steamed vegetables when visiting his upmarket LA restaurant. Austrian-born Puck, 66, who is known for cooking for Hollywood’s A-listers at the Oscars ceremony every year, lifted the lid on Mrs Beckham’s saintly attitude to food…and her less than friendly approach to fellow diners.
He said that the Beckhams are regulars at his popular Cut restaurant in Los Angeles and while David, 42, will happily tuck into a steak, Victoria, 41, prefers just vegetables. Puck, who laid on the catering at the couple’s ‘Welcome to LA’ party in 2008 when David arrived in Calfornia to play football for LA Galaxy, told Heat magazine: ‘David’s there with a steak and she’s there with vegetables. She’s uptight. Everything has to be right, she’s not interested in talking to anyone.’
Puck said that while he enjoyed a friendly relationship with former football star David, who he could ‘talk and talk’ to, he didn’t feel the same way about Victoria, even suggesting that she has a ‘game face’ for public appearances. And when it comes to Mrs B’s food choices, Puck reveals his kitchen will prepare a simple plate of spinach, with just ‘a touch of salt’.
This is what I don’t get about being rich and famous and having access to incredible food: with that kind of money and access, just eat the incredible food. Go for an extra-hard workout the next day, or go on a diet next week, but don’t go to one of the best chefs in the world and ask him for a plate of spinach. That’s so WRONG. It’s a crime against food. And while I’ve heard that Posh can be friendly (or friendlier than people think), I do believe that she’s probably less friendly than David in general.
Puck also says that he knows of many celebrity women who simply stop eating for days ahead of the Oscars, and that Charlize Theron and Sylvester Stallone both love his smoked salmon pizza. And Prince Albert loved his chicken pot pie. Oooooh, now I want a chicken pot pie.
PS… Of course, this photo doesn’t help. Posh literally separates herself from fans with a wall of glass.
Loved meeting you all my store today! #VBHongKong x vb @JOYCEHONGKONG pic.twitter.com/1hSP6CTpzN
— Victoria Beckham (@victoriabeckham) March 18, 2016
Photos courtesy of WENN.
OMG, I would have never guessed! Said nobody ever.
Is that her attempt at a smile? She should just stick with RBF and call it a day.
I know! I think smiling is too difficult – literally. I think she is great, but she really needs to chill with the Botox. She is beginning to look like she suffers from facial paralysis.
She said like 15 times that she doesn’t like her smile. She never smiled in pictures, botox or no botox.
LOL!!!! Perfect.
I don’t know for sure but it sounds like perhaps she’s done something to upset this chef and now he’s bad mouthing her. I doubt she really just has a plate of spinach and they may have once been regulars but after this I doubt they will be anymore.
Well seriously, how friendly would YOU be if everyone around you was diving into dishes prepared by Wolfgang and you were stuck grazing on spinach? I wouldn’t want to be within 30 feet of me if that were the case … 🙂
And Wolfgang Puck is famous for bringing cuisine minceur (ie fancy diet food) to LA, so his dishes are generally unfattening in the first place!
Why don’t we wonder more what the heck is wrong with our culture that grown women have to not eat for days before a dumb awards show? I’m always amazed when I hear this stuff. Spinach? Really? Just to be super skinny? I don’t know, I think that’s not really living in any balanced or healthy way.
I’m with you. It’s absurd that fashionable gowns are specifically designed to not fit the standard adult woman.
My ex was in the military and for the ball his branch had I just ordered a custom-made gown from a local seamstress. It was gorgeous and fit me perfectly, plus I had a great time. Some of the other women I talked to were telling me all about their diets so they could fit into their dresses! I couldn’t do it.
I always have a hard time buying stories about celebrities not eating or eating celery only for days. Just.. How? How do they function? If I skip breakfast I end up with a horrid headache and am barely able to think straight by the time lunch rolls around.
They’ve got years of training
Speaking as someone who was bulimic 20 years ago, it is very easy after a certain period of time to train your body to avoid food. Thank goodness I got help, it seems Posh has not, if you believe the reports. Now did I get over my body image issues immediately? No, even now sometimes I catch myself. It is a struggle, but it can be done. I feel sorry for Victoria if she has no one who can help her.
So true. I dealt with anorexia in my late teens and after a while the body gets used to running on caffeine or whatever you give it. Never missed a day at school or work. Had a relapse the first year after I initially got help and I fainted within 24 hours because my body had gotten used to actually eating again. My point is, while it’s extremely unhealthy it is possible to get used to functioning on almost no food. I wish her the best but nothing changes until she wants it to.
Everyone’s body reacts differently to food. Some stop eating and it affects them, others show no symptoms. I have stopped eating, three days is my max then I need a bite of something. It really isn’t that hard, just stay busy. Not saying it is right, but it definitely is possible and done constantly by women in public eye, not just celebrities.
The longer you do it the easier it gets.
As someone who was anorexic for several years in her teens, you start to like the feeling of hungry and it becomes a challenge. Yes, you get dizziness/tiredness, but once you are in the throws of it, the not eating takes over. I thankfully recovered on my own (which therapists have said is very rare to do). Now sadly, I have PCOS and trouble losing weight, which is a bucket full of irony.
Andrea, ask your doctor to fully test your thyroid, hormones, and adrenals. (Not just T3 and T4, but Free T3, Free T4, et cetera.) There’s a website out there which has a fantastic list of everything that should be tested, so do a search for it. Stop The Thyroid Madness. You might also research ingesting organic coconut oil. My doctor put me on Metformin for PCOS, but it caused more problems than it was worth, and my issue was undiagnosed hypothyroidism. Best wishes. 🙂
I have had my thyroid tested by my doctor and naturopath—my naturopath has helped me a lot, but wants me off of BC. I am trying to increase my cardio level through bootcamp classes and hope it works.
Cigarettes and diet Red Bull.
Totally
Me too! I HAVE to eat!
Seriously! At my very healthiest I was thin but not even close to celebrity thin. I realized I would have to pretty much eat small amounts of steamed vegetables and coffee to be that thin. Not worth it. I need my pizza once in a while!
The human body has a remarkable number of mechanisms to deal with periods of starvation or fasting. When your glucose stores run out, the body turns to fatty acid metabolism. When that’s exhausted, it starts breaking down proteins (muscle/tissue). Then amino acids. If you outlast the toxic byproducts of those catabolic cycles, your body can actually start degrading nucleotides, though you’re well beyond help by that point.
So hard fasting for 2-3 days? Not terribly difficult for somebody in relatively fit condition, especially if they’re loading up on appetite suppressors like stimulants (I’m on Concerta for my ADHD, and you will literally forget to eat if you’re busy enough) or nicotine (lowers glucose levels in the bloodstream, reducing cravings). I was once involved in a fasting service for a social movement, and two of the volunteers went fourteen days on nothing more than water with no ill side effects beyond weight loss. (Note: You do have to go through a “grace” period after fasting where you can only eat caloried liquids or very simple foods until your body’s digestive tract readjusts to solids.) The only people who would have problems otherwise are those with underlying health issues (diabetes, hypoglycemia, gastroparesis, etc.).
Naomi Watts does it.
They live with the headaches (which go away if you are chronically starving yourself, they disappear by day three, I did a hunger strike and found this out). They smoke, they take diet pills, they just deal with it as part of the job, or maybe the BIGGEST part of the job. As Elizabeth Hurley says, it’s ridiculous to pretend it doesn’t hurt. “I smoke, and I go to bed hungry every night of my life,” she said.
I didn’t really start to feel weak from not eating back in my ED days until I was days in. Once went 18 days and couldn’t get up a flight of stairs without feeling like I was going to pass out. I’d have a couple “food days” when I started to feel weak and then I’d begin fasting again; usually staying in the 5-9 days without food range. Odd as it is I miss it sometimes, it was a hobby and something to focus on when I was bored but I started to go too far with it and I like being alive.
How could she be the stick woman she is without living on spinach?
I agree, though-it’s sad!
I don’t know. We ridicule women for having an ounce of fat on their bodies, then we ridicule them for being strict on their diets. Maybe that’s what she has to do to stay so thin. I couldn’t do it, but I think it’s kind of not my business if she wants to. I think it was sort of unprofessional for WP to say something negative about what his customers eat.
Agreed on the unprofessional part. In Hollywood that’s like a therapist spilling your secrets.
Sometimes my stomach cant’ take basic restaurant food; It’s typically too salty and saucy. Other times I’m famished and It’s fine. Self-care is a really private thing, and just because she doesn’t want to “gorge” on a steak dosn’t make her “uptight”.
I too have a lot of trouble with restaurant food. I think it’s all the butter they add to everything–always upsets my stomach.
I agree. It hits the spot once in a while, but tends to be so much richer than what I eat at home.
I completely agree.
And the “just work out an extra hour tomorrow” thing doesn’t work for some people. It doesn’t work for me. Maybe it doesn’t work for her either.
And she seems like a nice person, just introverted. Not everyone is a happy extrovert.
We can eat calories significantly faster than we can burn them off via exercise, too. There’s a really great infographic about what it really takes to have a completely cut physique, and it’s sad – eat just to the point where you’re not hungry, but you never feel full, you get a treat every 4 to 6 weeks. No thanks. 6 pack abs aren’t important enough to me… but they may be to someone else. Not to mention, perhaps Victoria would rather have her splurge be on a couple glasses of wine than dessert.
Yeah if I’m having a beer, I’m not having those cookies.
I think it’s important to find what works for you interms of your body, your exercise routine, and your general lifestyle.
As I said previously, high-protein/low carb is not for me. High-carb and low-fat has been the ticket for adequately fueling my body while I’m training and preventing the hangrys.
I’d take a couple of good glasses of wine over food any day.
Absolutely. For me, good craft beer IS food.
@Bridget
How is only eating until you’re not hungry sad?
As in, not eating to satisfaction or fullness, just not hungry. Every meal. Some folks may find that acceptable, or worth the trade off for a goal. Personally, as someone that has a constant level of high activity, I couldn’t imagine that. I’m hungry all the time as it is.
So agree. He’s famous in his own right, but they are still his clients paying money to visit his restaurant, and I doubt they appreciate him running to the press about their orders.
Why exactly is he doing this?
That’s what Puck does. He always talks about what he serves celebrities. He’s been talking about what celebrities eat before Victoria was famous. If celebrities don’t want to be talked about they shouldn’t eat at his restaurants.
I believe you, though I have followed him for about thirty years and this is the first time I have ever heard him say anything negative about someone. I mean, he basically said she was an unpleasant person.
GNAT, lol– I though he was sort of known for that very thing, talking about what celebs order! But yeah, that quote about her being uptight is not very nice. Anyway, I’ve heard she’s just really reserved, like social anxiety reserved. Also, I wish I could eat like that just once in a while– even just for a few days every month or so– to give my body a vacation from my typical fare. Fresh sautéed vegetables with a little salt sounds yummy to me.
And this is why it is important to have “plus-sized models” aka average sized women who eat regularly and exercise moderately. There are so many women out there who worship the body that Victoria Beckham, Gwyneth Paltrow, and other celebrity women have when it is clear that these women barely eat. Yet, any woman who is above a size 10 on a magazine cover is called obese, unhealthy, etc. because we are so used to seeing women who don’t eat as the ideal.
Thank you. I will always remember reading an older interview with Julianne Moore (whom I adore) talking about how hard it is to stay slim, and how she is basically constantly hungry. Now maybe for some people that is worth it, but how anyone imagines that is healthy is beyond me.
It’s amazing how many people were commenting on the running mag cover last week, saying that she is not healthy, questioning whether she was really running, how hard she was training and what (bad) things she was eating. Sorry, but there are a lot of reasons why some people aren’t slim – whether they can’t, or won’t, and how unhealthy that makes them is between themselves and their doctor. IMO looking like Posh is unhealthy but what do I know, I am not her treating physician.
As an aside – my Mighty Girl FB feed had an awesome feature about a lady runner whose blog Fat Girl Running is so inspiring. I am not a runner but I love what she is doing, helping other people out there who are not thin find acceptance in a world that mocks their appearance and also their efforts when they do try to go and exercise. Back in the day when I was still trying to work out at a gym I never felt comfortable – I am a natural born klutz and every class I ever took just made me feel even clumsier and uncoordinated. I always got nasty looks and I can only imagine how much worse that would be when you are overweight and trying to work out. Yes, one can have a thick skin and ignore the looks and whispers, but they shouldn’t happen in the first place. And the covers of all women’s magazines should present a variety of bodies – that doesn’t mean we celebrate obesity or unhealthy lifestyles. It just means that even if you don’t fit in a size 2 skirt you should still be able to find well fitting clothes, wear pretty jewelry, get a flattering haircut, and feel attractive and sexy.
@ vavert – I totally remember that interview as well, and it has stuck with me. But people who are strict about their diet are not necessarily hungry, so let’s not stereotype her or anyone else. I completely agree that weight isn’t an indicator of overall health, and that plenty of super-skinny model-types are starving, but Puck’s point that she is stuck on vegies should not be a criticism in my opinion.
But if one is a size 10…..one probably overeats and doesn’t exercise….that’s not really something to “celebrate” imo….though it is incredibly common probably even a majority of women are not exactly in tip top shape….but still… a lot of women in America are and have been overreating and I don’t know how that translates as a viable “model” for women or society. I suppose we can choose our models or what we model ourselves after but I don’t agree with celebrating or encouraging obesity or being overweight. Why? Not because it’s physical ugly but because from my experience and from what I’ve heard carrying excess weight is an emotional nightmare.
Yes I agree with you ladies.
We had people on a thread yesterday saying that they gain weight from their medication but that their medication is necessary to treat their illness. We had other people talking about thyroid conditions, PCOS, etc. We also have commenters who have shared that they lost a ton of weight from stress or sadness after the death of a loved one or the demise of a marriage or while enduring chemo treatments.
I know that what we’re discussing here is far more clear in that we’re specifically talking about the details of a celeb’s diet…But why can’t we just agree that the aforementioned are just a few of MANY reasons why we need to stay the hell out of other people’s business when it comes to weight and/or perceived healthiness? It’s such a personal issue and if we don’t know why a person is the size they are, who are we to speculate?
WOW @sigghh You believe a woman who wears a size 10 probably overeats and doesn’t exercise? So a women should wear a what 4 or 6 to be celebrated?
I am a size 12 and workout 3-5 times a week (bootcamp 2 times per week) been counting my calories every single day for 1 1/2 years now and try to remain between 1200-1400 a day(given my activity level for the day). I have PCOS and gained 40 lbs from it and have been trying very hard to lose the weight, but even losing 1 lb seems to take forever to lose. I also am on BC to help reduce my ovarian cysts, which sadly hinders my weight loss as well. I suppose starvation is my only answer then according to some above.
@sigghh
Yes, wow.
I know lots of women who are size 10 yet eat very well and exercise.
I think most of them look good, too, unless they have a particularly unfortunate body shape. I mean, they may not look good enough to cover “Sports illustrated”, but they hey, if they had all the time to train for it, help to diet and workout for it, plus professionals working on the picture and post-production, I bet they’d look great, too.
@sighh you’re in no position to declare whether a size 10 is a result of overeating and lack of exercising. Medications and health problems also cause weight gain. Ignorance Irritates the shit out of me. Read a f*cking book once in a while LOL
SIGH. I weigh 100 pounds and stand 5 foot 3 inches. I eat like a pig. And drink. But I work out. I also have PCOS. Any more excuses for being fat you wanna throw my way? Having a medical disorder/medication that “cause” weight gain usually tops out at about 5 – 10 lbs. Not 20, 50 or 100 lbs.
Totally agree. I don’t know that much about Victoria, but I thought she was one of those people with a cold exterior but can really be nice once you know her.
She was great on Ali G. But that was years ago, so who knows.
ITA GNAT.
Agreed on the unprofessional part – I think it’s quite tacky of him to comment on what she does or doesn’t eat at his restaurant.
As for her choices, think of it this way: this is a woman who goes to a lot of functions and dinners out. She would have to live at the gym if she wanted to indulge every single time she went out! Plus, we have no idea why she eats the way she does. I have two auto-immune diseases and I’ve discovered through trial and error that simple carbs, sugar (which includes too much fruit) and MSG are huge triggers for flare ups. Soooo, eating out means I have to be very careful about my choices, and it also means I get endless crap about them too.
Belle- yes, I’d probably be right with her eating steamed veggies not because I’m oh so disciplined but because the other stuff would be problematic for a variety of reasons and I don’t want to get sick while away from home. I eat in installments anyway so it would just be one small meal out of several. I’d be happy just to have someone else do all the work preparing the veggies….
I feel you, Belle. I have reactive hypoglycemia and I have to be very careful about my diet. I still eat tons of awesome food – it’s just healthy food. It sucks that I have to be careful about my indulgences though. I get crap about it too.
Ok, let’s be real here. We do have a pretty good idea why she eats like this.
That said, the chef is a mean bi@tch for talking about his (former, probably) client like that to the press.
it seems like a dumb business decision, too. why would other famous women visit his place if he talks about their diet?
That’s like asking why ‘private’ celebs frequent certain eateries known to be pap magnets…I’m wondering about spending time on hair and makeup, teetering on five inch heels, waiting for valet parking–all to eat a plate of spinach. Surely one of her maids or nannies could open the bag for her…
I completely agree – he had no need to share that information, and I don’t doubt that it is exaggerated to some extent. But even if she does survive on vegies, she’s not the only one, and maybe it makes her feel great. I know a lot of athletes who are very, very restrictive, and no one would criticize them. I also know non-athletes who are very strict about what they will put in their mouths, and they feel great. And of course, there are people like my brother who finds it irritating to have to stop and eat – he’s just never been particularly interested in food. I love to eat, and I eat everything, but I have no problem with those who go with a different approach.
Completely agree with all of this.
Yeah. She doesn’t seem unwell. She easts salad and she’s skinny. I eat pizza and I’m fat. Her choice. She’s had 4 healthy pregnancies.
“We ridicule women for having an ounce of fat on their bodies, then we ridicule them for being strict on their diets.”
So very true. Also, we have no idea if she just came home from a work function where there was food served, but her husband was hungry and they wanted to spend time together. Analyzing what other people are eating is just not a good thing.
You should never eat until you’re full or “stuffed.” When you do you’ve already eaten too much…and that’s how people gain weight/have a hard time losing it. With portion sizes being so astronomically huge in the US, it’s no wonder people eat until they can’t eat another bite. You have to figure out the difference between “full” and “satisfied.”
Totally agree… unprofessional. I would never stop laughing if his celebrity clientele disappeared for fear of having their eating habits outed.
To me this is very sad. She has an eating disorder. I really like her. I think she has a great sense of humor and can laugh at herself. I also think she has a problem.
Eating lots of vegetables and being disciplined in eating, even when at a restaurant, is not an eating disorder. She has good muscle definition and her skin is very plump and full of collagen, so obviously she eats a very healthy diet. She has access to these kinds of restaurants and chefs all the time, so just because her husband loves to eat out and she stays disciplined and doesn’t eat pizza or chicken pot pie doesn’t mean there is something wrong with her. It means there is something right with her.
Yes!!
Sorry but she is underweight, no muscle tone, and her face is full of fillers, not collagen. Jmo, not trying to be snippy.
Her skin is awful, tho. Not one part of her is “plump”, like you say, especially not her skin, and Lord knows how you can gauge her collagen levels. What an odd thing to say.
Eating lots of vegetables is great, eating only vegetables is a recipe for osteoporosis.
@Yun I guess she can gauge her collagen levels the same way a dermatologist does: By seeing (with eyes, not a special “collagen gauge”) that her skin is not thin and saggy.
I think she looks gorgeous! I’m younger than her and would love to have her figure and skin. Whatever it is she is doing is working. I wish she would write a book with her beauty and anti-aging secrets. I would definitely buy it.
It’s not what she is eating; it’s how she approaches food and her apparent inability to deviate even a little. While her diet may be very healthy, her attitude towards food doesn’t seem to be. Orthorexia can be very deceptive. I have a very dear friend who struggles with weight and I wholly believe she also suffers from orthorexia. From the outside, her diet seems really healthy and her discipline admirable. However her level of anxiety over eating something even remotely deviant from the stringent diet she’s crafted is not normal or healthy.
I believe Victoria is suffering from the same.
What! just because someone has steam veggies and is petite does not mean they have a Eating Disorder, A Eating Disorder is a life threatening illness and kills its not a word to be thrown around to describe someone who is thin!
The stigma and lack of education behide Eating Disorders is really disappointing:(
I know exactly what an eating disorder is and I think she has one. If you know anything about eating disorders you know it’s not about food. For her it’s control and she limits her eating so barely any calorie food. She’s obsessively controlling about what she eats. That’s a disorder.
Yes, there is a stigma around this and most disorders, people judge and make wise-ass comments and assume because she’s successful and wealth she’d enjoy the benefits but that’s not always the case.
I know someone exactly like her and she has an eating disorder. She refuses to eat more than 800-1000 calories a day and is unwell most of the time (headaches, dizziness etc). As a recovered anorexic myself, I know the signs. Victoria’s poor skin, emaciated frame (look back when the spice girls first came out, that’s what she should look like now, don’t tell me she lost baby fat, she started severely controlling her calories).
@auss – I’m not knowledgeable enough on the subject to speculate whether Victoria has an eating disorder or not, but I think you can have an unhealthy obsession with what you do and do not eat and yet not meet the clinical definition for an eating disorder. That doesn’t mean that the person is physically healthy or emotionally well-adjusted. Any regime, if taken too far or practiced for the wrong reasons is not healthy, mentally or physically.
Orthorexia may not be a medically recognized psychological eating disorder, but I think in extreme cases it can be as damaging to a person as anorexia or bulimia.
https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/orthorexia-nervosa
+1,000,000 Auss.
Substitute “AIDS” for “eating disorder” in the above comments and everybody here would be outraged. It’s like people forget that anorexia and other eating disorders are serious illnesses.
Not ok to diagnose strangers with mental illness or AIDS OR anorexia or any other disease unless you’re her doctor, sorry not sorry.
Thank you. Anyone food conscious and thin must have a very serious illness. That’s ridiculous. I don’t guess she’s eating a lot of fast food but that doesn’t mean she’s anorexic. She delivered healthy babies so she is obviously ovulating. But still it’s unfair to say she’s ill.
https://twitter.com/victoriabeckham/status/711749345427587072
Seriously, have you seen her recent pics? She has an eating disorder. I’ll bet the majority of the women in HW do. I remember her from her early spice girls days. She looked fairly curvy and healthy.
I posted some pictures from when she as in her early 20’s (see below). She definitely has an eating disorder. There is a big difference between living healthy and being restrictive and being super restrictive and underweight.
Laura I agree with you, not because of what she eats, but because of the amount of control she seems to need to exert over every part of her life. I feel sad for her. It seems that she never lets herself relax. She may really like being dressed up all the time, but there never seems to be any joy in her eyes.
I wonder if she feels she absolutely must keep up this facade because of their public lifestyle. I like her a lot and would wholely support her letting go just a little.
What a waste. I’d only want to be that rich because of all the incredible food and wine! And vacations.
I agree, it is a crime against food. Every time I hear about Victoria Beckham I can’t help but think about that ridiculous side step she did at NY Fashion Week. lol
Life is too short not to eat. I find food to be one of the greatest pleasures in life. To miss out on the best food in the world just to fit into a size 0 dress is a crime.
Kibbles – fortunately, well prepared high quality veggies are quite tasty. I don’t think she is suffering by eating them in quantity. Your taste buds really wake up when you eat simply.
We all want different things in life. To her, maybe fitting into a size 0 dress feels better to her than eating a piece of cheesecake.
“well prepared high quality veggies are quite tasty”
But you can’t thrive on a diet of just veg. You need grains and healthy fats as well. I agree with kibbles, with the added observation that you’re doing your brain and bones harm if you don’t eat a balanced diet as well.
Bobo, I’m saying this as someone who doesn’t eat a lot of sweets. Victoria Beckham isn’t just forgoing cheesecake. She is foregoing most of the major food groups to fit into that size 0 dress. I don’t understand anyone who thinks her eating habits are healthy or that she has a positive body image of herself. Victoria Beckham has never been fat but she looked a lot healthier in her Spice Girl days.
Kibbles – I agree – all good things in moderation!
D, I know that was the funniest ever, she is so pretentious, and I would beleive she is extremely uptight, she never seems relaxed and to enjoy her life, so sad for someone like her and the life she leads, dont beleive she is a very happy person and seems extremely insecure.
Okay, I saw the sidestep on a video atthe Daily Mail. That was very odd looking. How embarrassing. I mean, I’m embarrassed for her. Geez… 😕
wow such a warm welcome for all those fans behind the glass!
Close..but no too much! She is like an animal in a zoo.
God bless.
I understand being healthy and not eating meat even but I think she is taking things a little to far. If that’s what you got to do to stay that thin maybe you weren’t meant to be quite that thin?
Exactly! This! If it’s a healthy weight for her, why does she have to go to these extreme measures to be that size?
I agree. In my early 20’s I wanted to be at my high-school weight (before I got curves)… It was only about 5+ pounds less, but I just had this naive goal to get there because I wanted a leaner silhouette and I thought it was a healthy goal. I eventually maintained a very strict discipline and work-out ethic to float close to it for a few years, before I realized that when I was at my lowest, my body was treating me like I was underweight…just getting weird symptoms. I decided that just 2-3 pounds lighter was more realistic, but it still took me another year or two to realize that I was kind of starving myself without realizing it; maintaining such a low calorie diet long-term. Fortunately, through maintaining regular exercise through those years, I found that I was able to carry more weight than I’d imagined I could, with being more highly toned, and that was really all I was after in the first place. Not saying it’s easy to maintain forever, but I really didn’t see the light back then, and thought restricting my eating was the top priority for too many years.
Round 2: I did a raw diet for a few years in my late 20’s/early 30’s, and even though I denied myself nothing (fats/protein-wise), and ate all of the time, my dr found I was again somewhat “starving” myself without me knowing it (I always ate whenever I was hungry)… because I wasn’t getting enough calories, fat or nutrients. Bonus: I was able to be at my high-school weight without trying… So that should have told me something, but I just felt so good all the time! So I can’t imagine how it would be for someone actually trying. The health effects themselves just wouldn’t be worth it.
Sorry to add; my main point is that I thought all of this was the pinnacle of health at the time.
I’m sorry, but at what point do we call this what it is? An eating disorder.
Apparently to a lot of the commenters on here, your relationship with food is only unhealthy if your eating habits make you fat.
Yeah but Victoria doesn’t come across as the type of girl to work out…at all. She seems the type to rather starve instead. Why bother going out to nice restaurants when all you’re going to eat are veggies. Spinach with salt? My God. I really hope she doesn’t pass that on to her daughter.
Don’t they live at Soul Cycle?
I’ve never seen pics of them at Soul Cycle but that doesn’t mean they don’t go. I have just never seen pap pics. I mean pics of Posh coming out of Soul Cycle would sell for a lot wouldn’t they? But to be honest, if you’re restricting your diet that much, there is no point in doing hard core exercising. I can see her lifting some light weights for arm definition, but cardio, I just can’t see her doing it.
How they don’t get bored at eating the same thing every friggin day
It’s odd, but I’ve noticed for myself that things can become very easy, weight maintenance-wise when eating (veryhealthy) basic foods and a relatively consistant diet (with lots of variations on flavor, of course!), because my body and tastes sort of stop expecting to be “entertained” all of the time. I love food though; and it’s never been something I did purposely – more like it came out of practicality at times in the past… but it’s something I’ve noticed. And something I try to talk myself into now that I’m less disciplined than I used to be 😉
I think she is very disciplined. I am not that disciplined. When I am at home, I eat 2/3 raw vegan and 1/3 cooked vegan. However, if we’re going to a great restaurant, I will eat something fabulous and not feel guilty about it.
I eat this way for my health, not vanity. A friend of mine’s father had a major heart attack so he is now vegan 6 days a week. One day a week he allows himself a great meal, (usually steak) and his doctor said he’s doing fantastic health-wise.
I don’t think I could dine at Mr. Puck’s restaurant and not enjoy one of his famous dishes!
You sound pretty disciplined to me, Sherry!
Her and Madonna have some sick discipline.
I cant believe Im doing thr celeb defend, but I am coming off a bad experience of “Bro” attitude towards my work last week, so imma gonna vent here:
You know something, Puck? David can eat a steak, puffs and everything under the sun, gain weight, age and not get a lick of criticism from the press to the degree Victoria would.
I’ve also heard reports that Posh is friendlier than she photographs…regardless of what she is really like, I just think this is a very disciplined woman who is getting a shady opinion from an egotistical chef, and her star is certainly bigger than his. She’s emerged from pop tartdom and WAG status to a woman who has built her own empire, and raises – what is it– 5 kids? That’s no small feat, given that she does not come from a famous last name or family. If she wants a plate of steamed straws, fine.. She can eat whatever she likes, I think at this point she can decide what’s best for herself without the sexist slam of her being “uptight”, Puck.
Absolutely. As someone who’s resolutely unimpressed by most “celebrities”, I’ll always stick up for VB – I have a lot of respect for her.
& I very much hope that a few people might think twice before frequenting this bloke’s restaurants, if this is his attitude to (presumably) good clients. Pah.
Preach it Annaloo!! I totally agree with you! She has 3 (I think?) very healthy children and a successful business. She has good muscle tone and her skin looks amazing. She is clearly healthy, so I think all her detractors can pretty much suck it. It’s so easy for people who have no self discipline and have given up on how they look to throw stones at those who do and brand them with disorders.
Yeah people keep using the word “emaciated” to describe her…makes me wonder if they’ve seen real ED-sufferers in person.
Have you seen her recent pics? Check out her Twitter feed. She dresses VERY carefully these days but you can see that she’s emaciated.
Exactly! She works hard and she’s doing a lot (fashion, family, etc.) – it takes a lot of work. It’s also completely unprofessional from his end.
I was a waiter in 90210 for years. Wolfgang Puck is a notorious tool. Affairs with hostesses (this was years ago) bad behavior with employees in general. Going on tv and saying waiters all make over a hundred grand a year (bs) and should be paid $2 an hour. Even at HIS restaurants waiters dont make that. Maybe one did one good year. That is like the 1% of service people.
Like I said. Tool.
This.
And also, judging someone’s entire diet from one meal? Side eye.
Sad existence. Sounds like Anorexia. I like Posh, but her health will suffer in the long run.
Yeah, what a sad existence she has! LOL! With her totally hot husband, beautiful children, and mult-million dollar fashion empire. And yeah, she looks so unhealthy with her glowing, rosy skin and her amazing muscle tone. Everyone knows that spinach is just the worst thing you can eat.
She has no muscle tone. It’s sad she wants to be skinny that badly
Don’t forget – a totally hot cheating husband.
I fixed it for you. 🙂
You want to be that thin, you can’t just get it by working out. You have to be incredibly disciplined about what you eat. No question.
You’re absolutely right. What someone eats, or doesn’t eat, has a huge impact on their overall weight, more so even than exercise. (source: nutritionist and trainer)
Truth! 80% diet, 20% exercise. You can exercise with weights and cardio for an hour every single day and build muscle, but your muscles won’t show if they’re covered by a thick layer of fat. (Some experts say 70/30).
Yeah, I’m discovering that. I work out hard but I don’t look like I work out. So the only other thing it can be is my diet. That’s the hardest part for me unfortunately. I love to eat! 🙂
She’s clearly had food issues for many years. I remember when she started modelling she got so thin at one point she looked like she was about to collapse, I think she was in full-blown anorexia for a while.
If this is true, I hope she realizes what damage she’s doing to her body by living on steamed vegetables. She’s probably developing at the very least osteopenia, if not osteoporosis. It happened to Goop when she was deeply into her macrobiotic, vegan, no dairy, no healthy fats (olive oils, etc.) phase of life.
She does not look well in that photo by the way – her complexion is sallow and she has huge dark circles under her eyes.
I agree with you. She takes care of her skin and I’m going to guess a supplement nut…maybe she fills her stomach with vitamins of every sort?? I really like VB. I think she’s great and this makes me feel bad for her. She’s human. Her life isn’t perfect. This makes me sad for her because her extreme diet is going to have negative effects on her health and life, long term.
I live in LA and I hear stories about these celebrities who are ultra type A, who are super controlling and strict with themselves (JLo). They truly live the motto “you are you’re own worst enemy”. I think VB fits into this category.
I love me some vickie beckham but she reeks of an unhealthy vibe. I am amazed some posters think she looks really good. I have seem photos of her where she looks like she can hardly stand up and is about to get carted off to hospital. Her dark circles under her eyes are terrible. She is a chain smoker and keeps weight off that way too. Love it how being “disiplined”now subs for “I have a full blown eaiting disorder for the past 22 years”. When she was in the spice girls she had such an enviable figure. Her husband has given up trying to change her.
Thank you Captain Obvious. Like we haven’t known for years that Posh is overboard regarding policing her intake. I don’t think it’s offensive to a fine cuisine restaurant to order a simple plate of spinach, but I do think it is offensive to the chef who has spent his life perfecting dishes just to be asked to place some spinach leaves on a plate and lightly salt them. *I’m surprised she would eat salt = water bloat* Also, when I think of someone who only eats raw vegetables, the first thing of think is that she must have diarrhea every single day of her life….and see it as a welcome accomplishment. Gross!
Jennifer – if you are used to eating high fiber such as from loads of raw fruit and veg, it doesn’t generally give you diarrhea. Sudden changes in diet might do it, and some people have very sensitive innards for other reasons (in which case they already know what they can eat and not eat), but many cultures get far more fiber than typical Americans and do just fine.
Well he said they were steamed. And maybe her husband really wanted to go out and so she just went along to be with him? Maybe she’d already had her protein for the day? She’s the customer. She doesn’t have to bend her food intake to the years the chef spent learning how to cook.
I wonder if she in fact has some sort of digestive issue where she is cautious when eating in restaurants not to upset her stomach? I mean she has a right to keep health issues private, if that’s the case. If this is simply to stay super thin though, that is a whole other issue.
I think what’s unusual about VB is that she’s actually not an actress, a singer or a model anymore – in theory she does something that doesn’t require her to be absolutely stick thin anymore. But she does it anyway. I wonder if it comes from a place of deep insecurity about her position in the fashion world, and feeling like she has to be a model for herself the whole time?
Ps has she had her boobs done again?
Maybe she just wants to be healthy.
she had her boobs done in her WAG days but then confirmed she had the implants taken out. If she’s had them done again, it’s a good job – proportional to her frame and not bolt-on looking like the previous ones.
Maybe she just doesn’t like eating while on display at a restaurant, and goes just to keep her husband company. Obviously she eats more than spinach or else she’d be dead by now. She just doesn’t eat much at his restaurant. We don’t know what she eats privately.
Just once…ONCE, I want to see her with a big piece of cake and a smilllleeeee!!!!!!
But there are plenty of photos of her with fans in Hong Kong.
I do not think VB is as bad as she is made out to be.
Life is short. You gotta indulge in good food if you can afford it you know? It’s not like she has to down a whole bowl of Lucky Charms, washed with Pepsi and candy. A steak won’t kill you.
Eating everything in moderation is fine. Denying yourself the best food when you can afford it is really truly criminal.
Oh, Holly – you just described my last meal, substituting Cap’n Crunch Donut Sprinkles and Coca Cola…. Some steamed vegetables sound very good right now!!! Really, when I overdo the junk, I start craving lettuce and carrots and cucumbers. Don’t even bother to use dressing, just keep scarfing down lettuce straight from the bag like they were potato chips. (“Can’t have just one.”) That’s why I tell people to go ahead and have a hot fudge sundae if they’re craving it, because a few meals of just hot fudge sundaes will eventually send them screaming to the produce department.
hollyhobby, totally agree, its all about moderation, but life is to enjoy, especially delicous food in restuarants like that.
But we don’t know if she’s denying the best food. We don’t know if she was doing a veggie detox or didn’t feel like much or if he’s using hyperbolic language.
If I’m 100% real This makes me sad cause I rather like Victoria and also I’m sorta over finding out how much air and deprivation and triffles of sad soggy food celeb women are eating
I kind of doubt that Puck’s steamed veg qualifies as sad or soggy…. 🙂
maybe she really loves Popeye!
I’m really surprised Wolfgang said this publicly. It’s obvious that he likes David who comes often to his restaurant. I’m sure David doesn’t appreciate his wife being so disrespected by Wolfgang in such a public way. It’s obvious he was set off lately by something and didn’t care what they thought. That doesn’t seem very professional to me. It came across that he didn’t like her in how he describes her as being unfriendly, a game face, etc..
I don’t get why she can’t enjoy a healthy meal with fish included or something, only spinach every time. I have a friend who monitors her food and is as tiny as Victoria, and she looks great because she’s a petite girl anyway. But she just eats a very tiny lunch, barely anything, so she doesn’t feel guilty out at dinner if she’s going to a restaurant she loves. So she enjoys food, even if not a big eater, and she loves Mexican food and chips and salsa, just orders a healthier dish than me. LOL. She certainly doesn’t sit in front of a plate of spinach when out to a great restaurant.
But lately it has looked like Victoria gained a little weight. I think she looks great. It just seems odd not to enjoy a great dish on a few times at least when she goes there instead of only spinach..
“I’m sure David doesn’t appreciate his wife being so disrespected by Wolfgang in such a public way. ”
A lot of these Hollyweird people are secretly super proud of their “discipline,” which is often borderline eating disorder or right in ED territory. It’s a competition to see who can get the thinnest.
Well, what goes around , comes around, Wolfie.. I have witnessed advanced cooking students and other cooking fans try to engage him while is is avalable. Which is not often.They basically get a snarky put down response, and a verbal back hand for trying to engage him too!
Exactly. I came here to post this, too. Dated a celeb chef for years and we ran in this crowd. (Ok, I’m dating myself.)
He isn’t really a jerk, but he LOVES celebrity hobnobbing. Can you imagine every single time your husband wants a steak, you’ve got to listen to this guy going on and on and on and on at your table?
Nope. Not ok.
Why should she have to sit and socialize with Wolfgang when out for dinner with her husband?
Why should she have to relate to randoms at all times?
Also, maybe she had chicken for lunch, and spinach for dinner?
Wolfgang needs to worry about his tasteless airport chains.
Horrendous meal in one of his restaurants a few months ago.
I’ve read that she runs every morning. She has well toned arms. She must eat or she wouldn’t have any muscle tone. Ive always liked her. I think she’s worked hard to get where she is and I respect that. And her children seem well behaved and happy. I think she’s a good mom and really loves her kids.
Maybe she has gastrointestinal issues? Living with that would make anyone hesitant to eat at any restaurant. Don’t mean iBS, but ulcerative colitis and other things.
How dreadful. Spinach with a bit of salt….my dear lord…i also would be less that friendly to anyone around me if that was the only food I had. And havong access to the best food in the world and yet forcing the chef to serve you a plate of spinach is not just crime against food, it’s a crime against humanity
I’ll be honest, I LOVE steamed vegetables and I can eat them constantly, but without some sort of meat protein, I get hungry a lot faster. If you eat an entire pound of steamed spinach with salt, you’ll consume very few calories, but it would fill you up. You’d probably be hungry sooner than if you ate a steak, but existing on steamed veggies isn’t necessarily indicative of an eating disorder – it all depends on how much of them you eat and what else you’re eating.
The quickest way to piss off a chef is to refuse to eat his food. It sounds like Victoria follows a strict diet and doesn’t let herself be influenced by others. I have no idea if she has an eating disorder, but what I do know is that if she gained an ounce of weight people would be allllllllll over her. If this works for her let her eat what she wants to eat and leave her alone.
He’s not really a “chef” anymore. He barely cooks. He oversees the celebrities and gabs with them while they are trying to eat, thinking that they enjoy it.
Here is Victoria Beckham at a healthy weight: http://www.buzzinn.net/img/misc/victoria-beckham-like-you-never-seen/victoria-beckham-like-you-never-seen01.jpg
and here:http://www.buzzinn.net/img/misc/victoria-beckham-like-you-never-seen/victoria-beckham-like-you-never-seen16.jpg
Yep. She is NOT naturally petite like posters are saying. That is her normal body type.
Why are her eyebrows just horizontal lines?
Okay, seriously people.. how many here would like it someone told them they “should smile more often”?
Posh, you do you, boo.
I know. I read she doesn’t like her smile much and that it feels unnatural for her. So yeah she should be herself.
There is a lot concern over her health and food policing but what if this was a full figured woman say Ashley Graham and a chef said she ate what David ate and topped it off with creme brûlée and had a cheesy cream based soup. If someone said they were very concerned about her food choices and health then they would be criticized as health concern trolls.
It works both ways and it’s unfair to accuse someone of an eating disorder based on Wolfie’s pointed complaint. He knew what he was implying.
I have a friend with celiac and they are accused similarly all the time and it hurts. He shouldn’t have to wear a t shirt to explain himself.
Btw his restaurants are overrated suck fests. I have been to a few of them and my ex was always saying that maybe it was an off night. Nope. Overpriced and underwhelming. Maybe Vickie B thinks the same.
Agreed! David probably likes the steak there and she went along to have some time with her husband. Wolfie needs to shut the F up and get back to the cooking he used to do in the early 90’s. He’s a has-been celebrity hound.
You know what? This was totally uncalled for. It’s fairly obvious, in my opinion, that VB has an eating disorder. He does not need to reveal this about her, and it shows how much of an ego he has. While I think that eating a plate of spinach alone is symptom of a problem, eating only vegetables is not a bad thing, and does not mean you are uptight. If he really respects David the way he says he does, and appreciates his customers, he wouldn’t insult Victoria this way.
Why did Puck talk bad about his regular guest to the media?
Because he’s rude and feels that they should all feel overjoyed when he stands or sits at their tables for hours chatting. Wolf, let people eat.
It’s so sad. She’s going to have a really hard time aging – and I don’t mean beauty wise. Her bones will be brittle and she’ll have malnutrition problems if she doesn’t already. And what does this kind of food denial do to your brain, I don’t even want to think about it. No wonder she finds it hard to smile: she’s starving herself near to death and possibly has full-blown depression from the malnutrition.
Exercise more if you need to control your weight but look at people like Jennifer Lawrence (who is, yes, very annoying as a person) and compare to Kate Bosworth. JLaw looks great and Kate could double as your science class skeleton. These women who deprive themselves will have serious health problems when they’re older, and I’m guessing they already have mental concentration and emotional problems.
Why do people like her so much?
She doesn’t seem particularly talented to me, she sounds quite dim in the interviews I have seen, she is a questionable businesswoman, if she needs David to bail her business out (and I don’t like her stuff). She is, perhaps, a good mother, but I’m not crazy about the strings they are pulling to get their boys into the modeling business.
Plus her constant sour-puss attitude… I just see nothing likable about her, at all.
her clothes (the ones she designs) are actually pretty excellent and well-made, and pretty much every civilian encounter story i’ve ever read, says VB is super nice to fans in person. So much for the “untalented sourpuss” claim.
And basing an entire opinion of a person on photo assumptions when it’s well known just why she doesn’t smile in pics, is juvenile.
I thought her body image issues have been more or less an open secret for a long time. It’s always made me feel slightly sad for her. What I do wonder about is the impact on her family. How do sit there as a spouse and not feel unsettled by it? Or do you eventually just give up and accept it as your normal?
Funny how she “loved meeting” those people while ensuring that she’s separated from them by a large tempered glass window. God forbid the hoi polloi get too close.
I’ve eaten at Cut and it was the most incredible dining experience I’ve ever had (and I’ve had many). Too bad she’s missing out!
her coloring is so unhealthy – just like that baldwin skank
Shame on Puck for name-checking and bad-mouthing a celebrity just to get PR mileage.
Maybe they pissed him off and he doesn’t care if he loses his spinach eating customer. And let’s face it, this won’t stop anyone from going to his restaurants.,
I have a girlfriend who is very very thin, less than 45 kg thin. She is super disciplined; gets up every morning, walks an hour to buy a coffee, walks an hour home, eats nothing all day then has a very small dinner. Is she anorexic? Who would know? There are a lot of peeps who live very disciplined, strict lives in order to look a certain way and quite frankly, it’s none of our business.
I love VB. She’s so unapologetically British which I love because as an Aussie, I find some Americans a bit sugary sweet.
Wow, the comments trying to justify her disordered eating here are crazy. Weirdly I’ve seen it here with Nicole Richie and Mary-Kate Olsen too.
All 3 women most definitely had very serious eating disorders in the past. Does no one remember VB in the early post Spice Girls years? At one point her thighs were literally the size of a slim woman’s forearm. Nicole Richie looked and spoke and moved like she was close to death at one point, so did Mary Kate. The laboured breathing, the shaking, the excess body hair…There were photo’s of all 3 that were extreme even by pro and standards.
People here have no problem concern trolling women who are maybe 5lbs underweight at most, but faced with someone significantly and dangerously underweight, suddenly it’s all good, they just like being healthy.
This! Must be a lot of skinnny posters. Quite a switch from the comments on the running cover with the plus size model.
TRIGGER WARNING:
Long time and current anorexic here who lost 35 lbs. once in 3 months and another 55 lbs. in a little over 4 months by diet alone. (Not bragging but letting you know I know what I’m talking about.)
I thought I’d shed some light on eating disorders since so many people on here don’t seem to understand what it’s like. And I’m glad you don’t know. Because the only way you’d truly understand is if you had anorexia and an “anorexic brain.”
Many things can trigger an eating disorder. Just having IBS or interstitial cystitis or some other chronic problem that forces you to restrict your diet can get the ball rolling. And when it does, “eating a cheeseburger” is the absolute last thing that would stop it. That would make us experience an overwhelming sense of lack of self control and we’d punish ourselves by restricting our intake even more.
Of course food looks, smells and tastes good to us. Only, when I see it, I see numbers. Calories. I only have so many to spare throughout the day so that cheeseburger is going to reach the limit by itself and only fill me up for what? An hour?
I know, for myself, how to spread those 400-1000 calories throughout the day to make them count. If you don’t want to lose your hair from dropping weight so fast or have your skin look nice, you memorize every vitamin and nutrient in every thing. I bet VB is extremley nutrient cautious and plans her tiny meals around what nutrients come from them over them being “satisfying.” I eat vitamins like there’s no tomorrow and only practice “clean eating.” BTW that phrase is one of my biggest triggers.
We know the damage it does to our bodies and families. My sweet, beautiful 11 year daughter who hit puberty this year weighs more than me. Do you know how shitty that must be for her? It’s awful. Im awful. She
has a big chance of getting this because of me. I’d gladly lay down in front of a train instead of her going through this.
My feelings or “truthiness” totally overshadow realities. And they
tell me I’m doing great. I’m getting up, functioning, being productive.. I’m not in bed so I must not be that sick. Right?
The chemicals in our brains change. I’m not walking around feeling like death from not eating for a day/days. My brain is rewarding me for it. I can sleep that night without thinking about the weight I gained during the day or pinching my stomach in the mirror the next morning. Guilt and self discipline are always my driving forces.
And I don’t even like my body. I don’t show it off. I don’t even want to go out in public. I feel and look like a cold, frail, boney old woman at 31. All of my ribs show through my shirts. My sternum shows. My spine and collar bones stick out. I know this doesn’t look good. So why do I keep going?
Fear of losing control. Fear of failing. Fear of what seems to be my best friend disappearing. I can honestly say that once you have this for so long, it really seems like it’s a person. And this person totally gets you and is always there for you. I know how weird and sick that sounds.
Help is very hard to get/afford and especially want. Most insurances won’t cover eating disorder treatment. Those inpatient facilities you saw on Itervention? You’re looking at around $1,000 a day. Outpatient care? $8,000
a month. And the chance of relapsing is huge. Even if you do recover, the damage you’ve already done to your heart and other organs is still there.
I guess I just wanted to give some insight because I was once very judgmental of anorexic looking girls. Thought it was a rich, white girl problem. It’s the deadliest mental illness and sadly, out of pure ignorance, seems to be the biggest joke.
Hey Mandy
God that was a very powerful, moving, intelligent and quite frankly, incredibly sad post. You are so freaking awesome to post it because as a society we revere and worship youth/thinness but the emotional/mental/physical fallout from achieving that level of thinness is catastrophic and clearly anorexia is a very misunderstood disease…
I don’t have anorexia but I feel like I understand it a little bit more so thankyou so much and all the best to you darling. I wish there was some help out there for you 😔
I am so so sorry you went through and are still going through that
Sending hugs and positive vibes your way to help you find yourself in a healthier, happier place
So sorry to hear what you are going through. Thank you for your openness. I hope someday you see that your friend is really your enemy and you have real friends and family who can help you. I know you need professional help, and I hope somehow, some way, you get the help you need.
This. God bless. Reading through some of these comments makes me sad. I’ve struggled with Anorexia Nervosa since I was 8-not exaggerating. I’ve been in and out of hospitals and finally my parents shipped me off for about two years and thankfully I got the help I needed!!! You do not have to be emaciated to have an ED for starters. Secondly, limiting yourself to a plate of spinach for instance is not “good discipline” or “wanting to be healthy” it’s disordered eating and is extraordinarily unhealthy. I have a talent/6th sense of picking people out with EDs simply because it takes one to know one and I do believe she has had or has an issue with food. I totally believe in not body shaming either to the thin end or heavier end but go to either extreme and I will say it’s unhealthy. Sitting around eating McDonalds 12 times a day and weighing 400 lbs is unhealthy. Hardly eating anything and weighing 80 lbs is unhealthy. Let’s not get to the point of being so politically correct that we praise people who are clearly unhealthy. This is detrimental to those people.
@Mandy Thanks for your insight. It’s true some of the comments are a bit insensitive, but at the same time, people are recognising she’s the one with the power. It’s either, “I pity her” or “she’s a joke and needs to pull her head in.” The truth is probably she needs help and recognition she’s in charge of her destiny, but I’m not a health expert on eating disorders, so that’s just my opinion.
Your story is part of why I think some of us here who are medically trained are bothered at the ignorance informing some of the comments here. You are not an “awful person,” you are ill. What you need is compassion and proper care, which is incredibly difficult to find in America’s shitty mental health care system. We wouldn’t feel that somebody with a different type of disease needed to be justified or abhorred, so it’s infuriating that we do it to people with ED.
Mandy, thank you so much for sharing, and so eloquently putting a voice to anorexia and the mental torment you go through. I pray with all my heart that you will somehow get the help you need. Cyber hugs to you.
“I loved meeting you all today”! (to security: make sure they stay on the other side of the glass)
That first photo of VB is downright frightening. She needs to crack a smile.
I don’t think Wolfgang Puck is a good cook. He uses things like Hydrogenated Oil in his prepared meals that he sells. So, God knows what he does in the kitchen.
He’s a rich sell out and I really have no respect for him as a chef.
She seems so exhausting and frigid.
Why is she still famous?? This woman has major issues with her body and food. They need to stop propping her up like she some role model, she always looks so greasy and unhealthy.
No. She doesn’t need to “crack a smile”. She doesn’t need to speak with randoms while out to dinner with her husband. She doesn’t need to eat steak when she feels like eating spinach.
She doesn’t have to stroke Wolf’s enormous ego.