The rich and famous tend to have lot more resources at their disposal to help them stay looking good compared to us mere mortals. When they're not shooting their latest movie they have plenty of time to workout in their personal gym or to get their personal trainer to push them to their limits. They can afford to have their meals made specifically tailored to their needs and delivered to their homes so they don't have to stock up on food and contend with the urge to overeat. If all this fails they can always have all their lumps and bumps airbrushed out. This just isn't an option for us ordinary folk.
Knowing this won't stop people from being taken in by celebrity endorsements of various diet products, plans and groups, though. Everyone wants to be slimmer than they are, and when they are confronted with those enticing 'before' and 'after' pictures they want to believe that the product being advertised can be as successful for them as it was for the person promoting it.
There are always female celebrities (although usually at the lower end of the celebrity scale) who will sell their souls to make a quick buck. They usually tell the tale of how they gained so much weight during their pregnancy which they were unable to shift after giving birth, but then with the aid of this miraculous pill, diet plan, or piece of exercise equipment they lost the weight in no time.
People want to believe that there is a quick-fix to their weight problem, and when they see pictures of celebrities who were heavily pregnant one moment and then spotted just a couple of weeks later looking as skinny as ever it is hard not to believe that there isn't such a solution. However, appearances can be deceptive, and there is nothing to say that these women aren't wearing control underwear or that, as is often the case in Hollywood, they have had a little bit of help from the surgeon's knife.
Most people don't have the money to waste on cosmetic surgery just so they can lose weight in an instant, nor are they able to virtually starve themselves and workout at all hours of the day without it having a serious impact on their health and family life. Celebrities can afford to hire staff to look after their children, clean the house, and cook their food, which isn't a realistic option for most of us.
Although we might all prefer to be a bit slimmer, few people are prepared to go the lengths that celebrities do in order to stay ultra-skinny, as there are simply more important things in life than size and weight.
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