Tracy Anderson covers the latest issue of Modern Luxury, and you can see the photos here. I know we’re supposed to look at Tracy’s bikini body and think “she looks amazing” or “she doesn’t have a perfect body, but you can tell she works hard and that’s inspirational.” I don’t feel that way when I look at Tracy though. I always think that would probably look a lot better and a lot happier if she wasn’t so insistent on fighting her natural state, which is probably about 10-15 lbs heavier. Still, a lot of women want to buy whatever Tracy is selling. Which is why she keeps branching out. She’s not content to simply shill her fitness Method – no, she and Gwyneth are selling rich women their special food, and they’re leaning hard into this whole “wellness” thing. That’s mostly what she talks about with Modern Luxury:
On the wellness-fitness balance: “I have dedicated my entire career to this space. I felt that fitness had a real psycho-physiological content gap before I created my method. While there has been mindful practice since the beginning of humankind and the awareness of how to develop muscular strength, there wasn’t a place for prescription content based on strengthening and balancing the availability of the entire muscular unit—how to get the access through the mind and from what parts of the self.” Anderson strives to “take the guesswork out of why trends fail you, diets depress you and deep physical connection scares you.”
She’s a healer: “Healing… people so they truly have a life process that lights them up and supports them is what I am most passionate about. I didn’t want to start a business or have a fitness career, or be a trend. I really wanted to heal people, including me, who felt physically disconnected and to contribute to the fitness world in a dedicated and impactful way that would help everyone.”
The voyage to wellness: “After I completed my first study, which lasted five years, I was so happy that I became good enough at designing other people’s bodies, and even my own, that I felt like I could eat anything. I had to really evolve into being the example of nutritional balance that I expected my clients to be. I fell into some extreme practices in the name of ‘disease prevention’ and ‘health,’ but learned how one size doesn’t fit all in nutrition either.”
On processed food: “My focus now is on educating people on the quality of food, encouraging or maybe even shamelessly begging those who can afford to support organic farming to shop only with that standard to help move the needle in the right direction from the top. We all deserve access to healthy food instead of the dirt-cheap processed chemicals of processed food company CEOs who drive Teslas while they are poisoning their consumers.”
Why she lives in the Hamptons: “I really love to be in nature, and I don’t love crowds.”
If you’re buying what Tracy Anderson is selling, then you really have more money than sense. “There wasn’t a place for prescription content based on strengthening and balancing the availability of the entire muscular unit—how to get the access through the mind and from what parts of the self.” I just can’t even start. The connection between the mind and body, between “fitness” and physical and psychological “wellness” has been known for centuries. By Hindus and Buddhists!!! The connection between general health, the health of the mind, the corporeal body, the spiritual world and the metaphysical universe, all of that has been explored by Hindus and Buddhists through yoga, meditation, tantric sex, etc. These white women learned a new branding word – “wellness” – and they’re repackaging these ancient concepts like they came up with all of it. Not only that, Tracy has a history of mocking yoga practitioners. Because she’s a daft a–hole.
You are nature, not processed. https://t.co/wcSNz3Miln pic.twitter.com/EktmKDRLzj
— Tracy Anderson (@TracyAnderson) July 5, 2017
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Whoa, somebody’s had some work done.
Yup.
Also I’ve never looked at her body and seen anything that I would want to try to replicate. She’s not naturally lithe and thing, and she’s not toned and muscle-heavy (which I think is such an amazing badass look). She mostly looks simultaneously gaunt and yet square.
All I can think looking at that last picture is “well your hair is hella processed”. I think she’s also had too much lipo on her hips.
I’m sorry that woman is anorexic. I know people are gonna come for me, but she does not look healthy IMO.
Oh dear… ppl need to stop calling every skinny girl anorexic. It may be so many other problems or simply genetics.
Anorexia is a serious illness not a label.
I’m not coming after you, but a person could be this size and not have an eating disorder. At 39, I weigh 105 pounds, eat more than enough, and have trouble keeping weight on. My whole family is skinny. I’ve never had any eating disorder, and I’ve found it insulting when people have asked if I do. We’re not all the same size and shape as each other
I don’t know if this woman has an ED or not, but naturally thin people usually look thin by nature. I know they hear all kinds of skinny shaming, but it’s usually obvious when someone is naturally thin versus fighting their body type by extreme measures that may veer into disordered eating.
Everyone’s naturally thin outside of the western world.
I wouldn’t want to label her, but she does have some sort of eating disorder. I don’t base it only on her appearance, but on what she says and what her apparent mindset is and has been for years.
With eating disorders, it’s more about the thoughts that drive the behaviour than anything else.
“There wasn’t a place for prescription content based on strengthening and balancing the availability of the entire muscular unit—how to get the access through the mind and from what parts of the self.”
What in the word salad hell?
Everything I want to say was said in the article, better. These two are like pinky and the brain, but with appropriation and bastardization of science and not adorable global domination. And the one with the giant head may have less brains than the tall thin idiot in this version.
THANK YOU KAISER!!!!
Ugh to see these rich white women touting ancient techniques that have been around for centuries is infuriating. Also jacking up the price for local yoga classes which makes it prohibitively expensive for the average person is ludicrous. I doubt that true Yogis of the past would revel in the monetization of such a wonderful and healthy practice.
As an Indian, it makes me so angry when Americans take something Indian and Hindu and won’t even acknowledge it. Yogis would charge what a. person could pay or not pay. No respect for Gywneth or Traci. Listening to them talk, you can tell they don’t understand what they are saying.
Is the picture on the Beach cover a joke in the link a joke? Her head is three times the body size. Photoshop? She has the size of a 12 year old kid who has not begun puberty and skin of a 60 year old. It is very off
I’m pretty sure that is really her. She has a large head and short neck for her body.
God forgive me, but that’s an ugly, unhealthy body.
I’m sorry, I know that’s her body but I don’t aspire to that at all.
All I see is bobble head skinny mean girl. Doesn’t inspire me a bit. And then she had to hate on Teslas. NOPE.
i’m reading this eating pizza bagel bites for lunch. that’s all i got.
Epigenetics is also based on the mind/body connection as well as the fact that we can influence how our genes express themselves. Even CANCER genes can be positively affected by diet and lifestyle.
Ugh…. this bitch *eyeroll