I'll Have What She's Having: My Adventures in Celebrity Dieting
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (718 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00R1P4M4C |
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| Number of Pages | : | 319 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Elizabeth Taylor mixed cottage cheese and sour cream; Madonna subsisted on "sea vegetables;" and Marilyn Monroe drank raw eggs whipped with warm milk. Taking cues from noted beauty icons like Posh Spice (alkaline!), Dolly Parton (Velveeta!), Sophia Loren (pasta!) and Cameron Diaz (savory oatmeal!), I'll Have What She's Having is completely surprising, occasionally unappetizing, and always outrageously funny.. 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 à la Karl Lagerfeld, and attempts something forbiddingly known as the "Salt Water Flush" to channel her inner Beyoncé. A hilarious look at the eating habits of the fit and famous - from Gwyneth's goji berry and quail egg concoctions to Jackie Kennedy's baked potato and Beluga caviar regimen - Rebecca Harrington leaves no cabbage soup unstirred in her wickedly fun
Very Funny Look at Bizarre Celebrity Diets A. Foster This a fun, fast read - I completed it in one sitting. Mainly because I could not stop laughing and was fascinated by the crazy lengths famous ladies went to lose weight. (Fun fact: Greta Garbo subsisted on three weeks on nothing but spinach after a studio head told her she was too fat for American tastes.)This brave writer actually tried all these diets, in the name of journalism. UGH! The Marilyn Monroe diet alone would have killed me. And Jackie O.'s stringent caviar and baked potato plan sounds heinous.I would love to read a sequel to this book. What did Mae West dine on? Did Marie Antoinett. Our Whatsoever a fun read! You know you really liked a book when you are sad when it is over. I was hoping for several more chapters at least.Rebecca Harrington did a wonderful job of telling us her struggles with different celebrity diets. Some diets were much harder to maintain than others. Just trying to find ingredients for some of the recipes was a struggle. Rebecca's sense of humour was spot on and she made you laugh through the good diets and the Not so good ones.I'll Have What She Is Having is a funny, enjoyable book!!. Loopy Loo said Very funny read. My favorite parts were the dinner parties. Very funny read. My favorite parts were the dinner parties. I think toward the end I was a little over the experiment-- as I am sure Ms. Harrington was as well. It was a joke that carried on a little too long for me. That being said, I still enjoyed this read and would recommend it to anyone wanting a laugh!