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I’ll Have What She’s Having – My Adventures in Celebrity Dieting
Rebecca Harrington
Published by Randon House, RRP $21.99
From Gwyneth's goji berry and quail egg concoctions to Jackie Kennedy's baked potato and Beluga caviar regimen--
... where there is a Hollywood starlet offering nutritional advice, there is a diet Rebecca Harrington is willing to try.
Elizabeth Taylor mixed cottage cheese and sour cream; Madonna subsisted on "sea vegetables;" and Marilyn Monroe drank raw eggs whipped with warm milk. Facing a harrowing mix of fainting spells, pimples, and salmonella, Harrington tracks down illegal haggis to imitate Pippa Middleton, paces her apartment until the wee hours drinking ten Diet Cokes ? la Karl Lagerfeld.
Taking cues from noted beauty icons like Posh Spice (alkaline!) and Sophia Loren (pasta!) she leaves no cabbage soup unstirred in this wicked funny,wildly absurd quest to diet like the stars.
This book was absolutely a delight to read. Several passages had me (truly) laughing out loud.
Harrington seems to be up for anything! There was no diet that she wouldn’t try and the results are quite hilarious. A bit of a spoiler though – although they all seem to work, in one way or another, at the end of the experiment she’s not lost any weight – so if you’re looking for the solution to all your dieting woes this is not the book for you – but if you’re looking for someone who has shared your dieting pain, or to help you laugh at your many failed dieting attempts this is the book for you.
It is a very light read and each chapter focussed on one ‘famous’ person’s alleged diet. Personally I found this is bit ‘magazine-y’ but I don’t expect it is meant to be read cover-to-cover in one sitting like I did. It is the kind of book you could read a few chapters of, and come back weeks, or months later and pick up.
Light hearted, funny, self-deprecating and generally just a bubble-gum read, I’d happily recommend this book to anyone who has tried a diet and failed, or who thinks that celebrities really eat burgers and pizza. (I’m pretty sure that everyone, right?)