The 40-year-old supermodel, Helena Christensen, graces the cover of this month’s InStyle UK Magazine.  She obviously looks fantastic and one would think that the woman lives on carrots and wheat-grass shots.  On the contrary, she admitted that she loves to eat and that in order to keep her stellar figure she truly does have to work at it.  As she put a dollop of whipped cream on her chocolate cake during the interview she said,

“I’m a pig……Oh my God, I’m obsessed! It takes up 75 per cent of my brain. I cook every day for my son and even if I’m going out for dinner, I’ll have a bite of what I made for him and then be like, ‘Oh, there’s three hours left until dinner’, and, suddenly, I’ve eaten a whole bowl.”

If 75% of her brain is focusing on food, then that remaining 25% is all about the exercise.  How else could she stay so trim?  Here’s what she says about her age and working out:

“Age in itself doesn’t freak me out. I’m in better shape than I was at 25 because I’m actually doing something physical, which I never did until two years ago because I was way too lazy. I’m still really lazy about it. I try to go boxing twice a week and I run, but after exactly 21 minutes, I’m ready to lie down and vomit. I’m super-lucky with my metabolism. I eat more than anyone I know, so I have to be realistic – that might not always be the situation. That’s why I chose really intense training. It was a question of, if I want to continue eating that much, I need to balance it out.”

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