Liz Taylor wrote a book of recipes that had alcohol as the main ingredient, Marilyn Monroe risked Salmonella because of her menu, and Elvis turned to…Sleeping Beauty to satisfy his insatiable appetite. Current divas would not follow such a food plan even if paid.
Marilyn Monroe was adamant that she had a balanced lifestyle, which she strongly supported in her 1952 interview with Pageant magazine, and contradicted all those who thought her food choices were “absolutely bizarre”. “I doubt if any doctor can recommend a more nutritious breakfast for a busy working girl,” she said with all conviction. What does the first meal of the day consist of for the ultimate blonde? In a few raw eggs mixed with milk. We would have said that she wasn’t making an omelet out of convenience or because she wanted to take advantage of the protein intake, but in fact, the fatty acids in the composition of raw eggs accelerated her metabolism, and that was the priority of the most attractive woman in Hollywood, in the 50s. But was a few hundred grams less on the scale worth the risk of getting infected with Salmonella? Because ingesting raw eggs can lead to contact with bacteria that can hardly be avoided. In addition, raw eggs have about the same nutritional value as cooked eggs.
OK, Marilyn endures all that ordeal, in the wee hours of the morning, purely for aesthetic reasons. And then keep up the pattern of starvation for the rest of the day. That is, he would skip lunch, so as not to add more assimilated calories, and satisfy his hunger in the evening with a roast lamb, beef or pork seasoned with four, five raw carrots at the most. “I can’t get enough of raw carrots!”, she admitted to herself. And when he craved something sweet, he devoured a chocolate ice cream without any remorse. Bottom line, Monroe’s menu was completely nutritionally unbalanced, but who cared about such details?! Only the result matters. And the figure of Marilyn Monroe was admired by the whole planet during almost all 36 years of the existence of the legendary actress and even after that, through the memorable images she left us.
Steamed cucumbers and mint puree
Even Elizabeth Taylor was never interested in a proper diet plan studied by nutritionists. She was no culinary guru, but the possessor of formidable eyelashes, who would practice nothing but hot kisses on the kitchen counter with her great passion, Richard Burton. Liz wouldn’t have been able to boil an egg if all her fame depended on it. But with her undeniable charm, she could pretend to be a foodie when she set out to write a combination autobiography and cookbook called Elizabeth Takes Off in 1986. Instead, she chose to serve up the spiciness of own life as appetizing content. And, between the paragraphs, he inserted, as if out of nowhere, a few recipes that would have horrified Gwyneth Paltrow or Natalie Portman of today, two fierce and filiform vegans – for example, a hamburger made with wholemeal bread and skimmed cheese, but with butter peanuts and cream galore. Another culinary find of Elizabeth’s was the Tuna Salad with Grapefruit, served in the skin of the fruit for an artistic touch.
Her regular menu also included the Rock Hudson cocktail, made from vodka, Hershey’s chocolate syrup and Mexican Kahlua liqueur. Her only advice on a healthy diet though is to cut back on red meat and eat more fish with vegetables and fruit. In terms of movement, we can more often reach for the remote control to change the TV channel, following the model of the sedentary person with purple eyes. And, if we feel the need to cheat on one of the days of the non-restrictive diet, no one and nothing should prevent us from doing so. Elizabeth occasionally indulged in fried chicken and chocolate cake and felt no guilt. “Always leave room for chocolate cake!” she bluntly said in her new book. And only when she wanted to lose a little weight did she take special measures – she would weigh herself in the morning naked and then prepare herself an at least strange combination of steamed cucumbers and mint puree. The absolutely original dish probably only worked because it was disgusting, right? However, the yesteryear superstar never wanted to lose her luscious shapes. In fact, he dreaded it. He sometimes wanted to lose weight, but not too much. “I started to lose my bust!”, she announced then in alarm. “I had to put some meat on quickly,” she explained in her 50s, when she was on her own “weight loss” regimen and was dying to share her culinary wisdom.
The Sleeping Beauty Diet has only one rule
In contrast to previous divas, Elvis Presley didn’t even struggle much with diets. He ate what he wanted and when he didn’t want to eat that much, he went to sleep. I mean, she was on the Sleeping Beauty diet, which has only one rule to follow – when you’re hungry, you go to bed and sleep. If you think about it, it’s a kind of intermittent fasting from the olden days. And the idea didn’t come to Elvis, but to his doctor, who probably ran out of solutions for the King of Rock & Roll’s obesity and all the heart disease that came with the extra pounds in his last years.
But that doctor not only advised him to pull the covers over his head to forget about the food, but would go so far as to resort to a medically induced coma, just to help the megastar lose some more weight. So he allegedly prescribed sedatives like Valium and Xanax to get him to sleep more and forget about his favorite sandwich made of white bread, half a pound of bacon (yes, you read that right), peanut butter and grape jelly. A real culinary nightmare, isn’t it?
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2023-12-25 08:03:12
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