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Nicole Scherzinger started counting calories when she was 14.
The X Factor judge says she was aware of her body shape from quite a young age and admits it started take over her life.
She told Shape magazine: “I started jogging and counting calories when I was just 14. I’ve been on every diet you can imagine. By the time I was in the Pussycat Dolls, I was on the scale all the time. It became my enemy because I noticed that when I exercised really hard, I’d gain weight.”
However, the 33-year-old beauty says she’s more relaxed with her diet and doesn’t deny herself anything.
She said: “Now that I’m in my 30s, I’ve stepped off the scale. I just go by how my clothes fit.
“I’m more accepting of my body and have learned to really embrace it. These days it’s all about finding balance. My new motto is: ‘Stay active, eat everything in moderation, and stop being so tough on myself.’ “
Kimberley Walsh has built a mini gym at home to stay in shape.
The Girls Aloud beauty maintains her curvaceous figure with regular workouts at her house but admitted she sometimes finds it difficult to stay motivated.
She explained to The Sun: “I have a mini gym at home which consists of a bar, some weights, resistance bands and a step. I do enjoy working out on my own but I have to push myself to do lunges which are the ultimate move for getting that burn in your bottom.
“My 30th birthday really put the pressure on me to be in great shape.”
Although she embraces her curves, Kimberley revealed she does find it hard to keep her trim figure.
She said: “I find it hard to keep the weight off. I’m quite normal really – not thin, not fat and my stomach’s ok because I used to dance loads.
“It’s mostly my bum that annoys me. Fortunately people like J-Lo and Beyonce are flying the flag for people with big bums so it puts me more at ease with it.”
Manolo Blahnik’s life story has become the subject of a new fairytale.
The legendary shoe designer will see the tale of his time in the industry turned into a “mix of biography and fairy story” by fashion writer Camilla Morton, with Blahnik illustrating the tome himself.
Camilla told Vogue.co.uk: “The book is a mix of biography and fairy story. It is a blend of Manolo’s life – from his childhood on the banana plantation to his store in Chelsea today – mixed with the tale of ‘The Elves and the Shoemaker’.
“Fashion designers are too magical for a straightforward biography, so what better than to mix with well-known ‘Once Upon a Times’ – and the finishing touch, asking the designers themselves to illustrate their story.”
The Spanish-born shoe creator admitted he found the process of illustrating the book a “cathartic” experience.
He added: “I would do it whenever I had a moment, on a train, on my travels, it was a bit of a challenge. I haven’t ever illustrated a book like this before, but it was very cathartic in a way to look back and draw images from my past.
“I knew Camilla would create something wonderful. It was a very fun adventure.”
Manolo follows in the footsteps of Christian Lacroix, who illustrated ‘Sleeping Beauty’ – his own biography written by Camilla – earlier this year.
Michelle Williams was involved in choosing the look of her character Marilyn Monroe for new movie ‘My Week With Marilyn’.
The actress plays the troubled started in the new movie and costume designer Jill Taylor reveled she was impressed with Michelle’s opinion on what she should wear.
She told Vogue.co.uk: “Michelle has this real vulnerable quality to her – she’s like a little girl. She’s almost fawn-like, a real Bambi. I think that’s something she brings to each film she does, but it was especially helpful in ‘My Week With Marilyn’ because it meant she really understood and captured the essence of the Marilyn we were trying to convey. You work with so many people in film who give you nothing, but that just wasn’t the case with Michelle. I’d be round hers late at night to do fittings and she always had an opinion on the costumes.”
Jill also revealed she used fashion to represent the “private” of the tragic actress in the film and discovered that Marilyn was ahead of her time when it came to fashion.
She said: “What we wanted to represent was the private side of her. She’s known for her show-stopping glamorous gowns, but after studying hundreds of books and photographs we found out that actually Marilyn dressed for comfort. She was ahead of her time in terms of style. The Fifties look was very much based on structuring and tailoring, but she was often chose quite American sporty clothes to wear. She was the Calvin Klein girl before there even was Calvin Klein. In private, she kept to very simple lines and silhouettes.”
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Beyonce Knowles was terrified people would realise she was pregnant before she was ready to announce it.
The ‘(Run the World) Girls’ hitmaker and her rapper husband Jay-Z are expecting their first child together in February and while Beyonce revealed the good news at the end of August, she was sure people would guess her secret when she played a series of concerts in New York earlier that month.
Speaking at the New York screening for her new concert DVD ‘Beyonce Live at Roseland’, she said: “The whole time I definitely was thinking, ‘Everyone knows, everyone can see.’
“When you’re pregnant, it’s a little bit harder to breathe, so it was hard doing all the choreography and singing at the same time.”
Although Beyonce managed to keep her pregnancy a secret until she was ready to reveal it, her Destiny’s Child bandmate Kelly Rowland recently accidently let it slip that the singer is expecting a little girl.
She said: “I’m so happy for my sister and her husband. They’re so happy in this moment right now, as they should be. They’ve made a little bundle of love, I’m so excited for them.
“I have no idea what I’m going to buy Beyonce at the baby shower because Jay is going to buy that little girl every single thing possible. She won’t be spoilt but she will be very well looked-after.
“I’ll be on hand for babysitting duties and I’m actually very good with messy diapers!”
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Rihanna will name her second fragrance Rebelle.
The singer launched her first perfume Reb’l Fleur earlier this year and asked her fans to vote on the name of her new fragrance in a poll on her website in which 68 per cent chose Rebelle.
The new scent – which has been “built off the sexy back of Reb’l Fleur” – will go on sale in December.
Rebelle will be packaged in a variation of the original bottle.
Fred Purches, chairman and chief executive officer of Parlux Fragrances Inc – which has been working on the perfumes with Rihanna – said the company is also planning on eventually launching a men’s scent with the singer.
Rihanna has previously revealed Reb’l Fleur was a reference to a nickname her grandmother gave her when she was growing up in Barbados, and she has also had it tattooed on her.
The ‘We Found Love’ hitmaker has long been known to mix different existing perfumes to create her own signature scent and said she wanted her own perfume to reflect the her roots in Barbados as well as her life in New York and Los Angeles.
She has described her first perfume as “like high heels with a short, flirty dress.”
Jessica Simpson’s past fashion mistakes have helped her become a better designer.
The singer and actress cringes when she looks back on some of her previous fashion faux pas but says her mistakes have helped her to create the best clothing possible for her Jessica Simpson line of clothes and shoes.
She explained to People magazine: “There are a lot of things I’ve worn and look back on and think, ‘Oh, my’. When it comes to beauty, I think a big misconception is the tanner you are, the more beautiful you are. It’s not always true. I look back on a lot of pictures where I’m really tan, and I’m like, ‘Whoa!’
“I’m in all those meetings. I know the zipper pulls, I know what you’re going to be purchasing next spring. I know what’s going to be trending. It’s really fun to take all those meetings and try and play great guessing games of what the public’s going to buy.”
Jessica also revealed she hates spending too much money on cosmetic products which is why she has teamed up with skincare expert Nerida Joy to introduce BeautyMint, an affordable line sold on the internet.
The pregnant popstar said: “We go to department stores and we have no idea what these people are telling us. We just know to get the ‘it’ product because it’s working on this A-list celebrity. It’s kind of like you’re spending too much money on something you don’t really know.”
Jennifer Lopez likes to dress in a “classic” way.
The singer-and-actress says she doesn’t really go for trendy items of clothing and would rather pay homage to old school Hollywood glamour.
She said: “I just do what I feel when it comes to my style. Even though I love things that are modern and new, I don’t really go big on trends that much – I keep it classic. I like a touch of sexiness and I love glamour – old school Hollywood glamour. I also come from the Bronx area in New York and grew up in the hip-hop in the hip-hop area, so that style is very ingrained in me.”
Jennifer, 42, also revealed how she is very involved with the clothes she wears on the red carpet as she wants her outfit to “represent” her.
The mother-of-two told LOOK magazine: “I’m very involved. The stylist can bring a rack of clothes, but at the end of the day I have to pick what I’m going to wear. Although they can put an outfits together, the truth is that it has to represent me.”
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