Sarah Jessica Parker claims she eats everything

I have to admit, I get really sick of all the svelte actresses that say they eat whatever they want. Oh, and don’t exercise. And don’t have an eating disorder. Look, I’m envious of your genes, but no matter how great they are, they’ll only get you so far. I really doubt there are many women in their early forties that can eat a few different meats for dinner and still be a size two. I realize the reason celebrities probably say this is so they don’t get criticized for unhealthy choices. And to be realistic, it’s not fair to expect them to be rail thin and eat normally. It’s sort of an either or situation. While Sarah Jessica Parker has always struck me as a reasonably down-to-earth woman (Sex and the City costar drama aside), she’s jumped on the “I eat it all” bandwagon and even ticks off her last few meals to People magazine.

“I eat everything,” the actress, 43, told PEOPLE Monday night at a special screening of her new film, Smart People, co-hosted by Allure magazine’s Linda Wells and The Cinema Society. “I’m just an eater. If it’s free, I honestly eat everything.”

As if to prove a point, the Sex and the City star rattled off a list of all the food she’d consumed in the past 48 hours: “Last night I had steak and some lamb shank. And I had some roasted chicken and some cassoulet and some profiteroles and some ice cream and some cheesecake.”

And that’s not all. On Monday, “I had two different tarts from Once Upon a Tart [in SoHo] and toast and a banana and a cup of coffee and a bagel with cream cheese,” she said. Oh, yeah: “And a glass of fresh orange juice.”

[From People]

Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus seems to have a more honest response when asked about what she eats to keep up a good figure. She says she’s relied on egg whites on the days of big events. It’s certainly not the smartest way to eat, but at least she’s honest about it.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus says actresses who claim to eat whatever they want are full of it. The “Seinfeld” star tells Harper’s Bazaar that she only ate scrambled egg whites on the day of the last Emmy awards because she wanted to look thin. “I don’t know why people thought that was so funny. I guess some people like to pretend they can eat like [bleep] and look great in their dress,” she said. Louis-Dreyfus also tried having small meals delivered to her home, but that only lasted a day. “I tried one of those things . . . I felt like it was a prison sentence, eating that crap.”

[From the New York Post]

I guess there’s a slight chance that Hollywood is overrun with women with some lucky freak gene that lets them consume all the donuts they want while not gaining an ounce. Most celebs already seem to be genetically blessed in other areas, maybe this is just one more way in which they’re superior to the rest of us. Or maybe it’s all a load of crap and Sarah Jessica Parker lives off egg whites and lettuce like I really suspect.

Header image of Sarah Jessica at the 2008 ShoWest Banquet and Awards Ceremony on March 13th. Julia Louis-Dreyfus is shown at the Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7th. Images thanks to PR Photos.

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