Category — Celebrity

The World Champion athlete and boxer Laila Ali is dedicated to ‘knocking out’ childhood obesity. Most recently she has worked with the Live Like A Champion Tour which is an award-winning initiative based out of California.   The tour encourages kids to get active by teaching them interactive games and sports-themed activities.  Ali is one of the newest council members and she was at Kentwood elementary last week showing the kids conditioning exercises.  She said, [Read more →]

Grammy Award winner Christina Aguilera is releasing her third and latest fragrance, Christina Aguilera By Night. She recently spoke with the Daily Mail about her new perfume and her transformation from teen pop idol to a matronly mom. As a self-confessed junk food fanatic she has no plans on remaining stick thin like other celebrities because she doesn’t like going on strict diets and she has more important things to worry about. [Read more →]

Jillian Michaels, fitness guru and trainer for the show The Biggest Loser receives the deserving title as America’s Healthiest Body in the November issue of Health Magazine.  With a new reality show in the works and tons of exercise DVDs and books it’s no surprise this wonder woman is being acknowledged by the magazine. Michaels said she was very flattered by the recognition but she admitted that she too struggles just like the rest of us.   [Read more →]

It’s hard to believe, but the 43-year-old supermodel Cindy Crawford doesn’t think she has the body for the contemporary modeling world. Back in the 90s her curvaceous figure is what made her an international modeling sensation but these days cover girl’s look a lot different. She told Germany’s Bunte Magazine that she looks too healthy and that the industry is no longer looking for,

“A body like mine with big breasts, normal thighs and toned upper arms.”

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Across the pond there’s another celebrity profiting from a fitness website; Sky Sports presenter, Georgie Thompson. She follows in the footsteps of other celebs like Jillian Michaels with loads of fitness products,  Tracy Anderson with a fitness website offering exercise tips and products to buy, as well as Gwyneth Paltrow who has a site with fashion, diet and exercise tips. Georgie teamed up with personal trainer Cat Dugdale to create a website for lazy girls who prefer cocktails to cardio, iamsuperchick.com.

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This week the First Lady invited 100 local school children to the White House for a Healthy Kids Fair.  During the event kids were taught exercise, healthy eating habits and watched food demonstrations on how to make healthy snacks. But Mrs. Obama stole the show when she hula-hooped 142 swivels before the hula-hoop hit the ground.  She explained to the press that the event was to teach kids how to eat and exercise and she considered it a call to action because one out of three kids in the US are overweight or obese.  She said,

“One of our goals was to focus on the importance of educating our kids about healthy eating,”

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Aislin Bates is by all accounts a healthy, active 2 year old who was denied health insurance by United Health Care for being too small. She weighs 22 pounds which is in the third percentile for children her age. Her father was dumbfounded stating:

“It seems as if they’re discriminating about the fact that she’s smaller, that her size is an issue,. I don’t see why that would be a factor in whether or not a child is healthy.”

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Ugly Betty star America Ferrera was spotted relaxing in the Bahamas over the weekend and taking some time off after filming the fourth season of the series. We normally see her in frumpy Betty Suarez gear or donned in a sweeping gown on the red carpet so this rare photo proves that she practices what she preaches and does not worry about her rather shapely figure. While many of her Hollywood contemporaries are bone thin and wearing clothes sized in the single digit varieties, the 25-year-old has always had a healthy body image.

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Victoria’s Secret model Miranda Kerr graces the cover of Sunday Telegraph Magazine this week. At only 26 years of age she’s had an incredible modeling career in both Australia and New York, she’s dating Hollywood A-lister Orlando Bloom and she somehow manages to be one of the most grounded girls in the fashion business. Kerr credits her inner calm to yoga and meditation but what makes it more interesting is that several years ago at a very young age she became a devotee of Nichiren Buddishm.   [Read more →]

Oscar winner Russell Crowe is currently producing and starring in the movie Robin Hood.  Of course we’ve seen Crowe ultra fit back in the days of The Gladiator but when he’s off camera he maintains a comfortable weight that’s a bit on the soft side.

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