At 25, Mandy Moore is no longer the poster child for bubbly pop music. Having long overgrown that stage, Mandy is now the “accidental” poster girl for healthy living – and she says so herself in the latest interview with People magazine. Moore doesn’t care about dieting and she certainly would never want to switch places with size 0 celebs because, as far as she’s concerned, she looks positively stunning as long as she’s healthy and happy.

The singer and actress, just recently married to musician Ryan Adams, admits in her latest interview she’s thrilled to be used as a model for the often under-represented (in Hollywood, at least) category of regular-sized women. She, just like millions other women out there, has highs and lows as regards her body and her body image, but she’s happy with it on the overall, even if she still has mixed feelings about her hips, which are no longer those of a 14-year-old girl.

“I still have a love-hate relationship with [my hips]. I’m not a swizzle stick – I’m not 14 anymore.” Mandy tells People. Still, even if she has moments when she loathes her hips, she would never go on a crash diet or hit the gym like a fanatic just to change something about her appearance. Instead, she prefers to work out regularly to stay healthy and to make sure she doesn’t stuff herself with unhealthy food. She describes her diet as “colorful” and her workout routine as something she does out of sheer pleasure, but that is usually handled and organized by her minders.

“I appreciate when there are other women out there who are beautiful and aren’t, you know, a pound. I feel lucky that I don’t feel pressure... to have my whole life be controlled by whether I fit into a certain size. If I really want something, I don’t feel like it’s worth it to deprive myself. I’ve never said, ‘I want to look like this’ or ‘I want to look like that’ or ‘I’m not good enough.’ ... To me it’s about feeling good, feeling healthy.” Moore explains.

With a new album on the way – “Amanda Leigh,” which drops on May 26 – Mandy Moore is using all the opportunities she gets to draw attention to the media’s obsession with weight and standards in celebrities. On this note, she points out that regular women should bear in mind that, no matter what they see on TV or in magazines, no one really looks that good, not even her.

“[As a star] you have professionals who make you look a certain way... I can’t roll out of bed and look that way.” Moore says. “I’m very comfortable with the way that I look, but it’s not fair for women to use someone or something as a bar. It’s not reality, for anyone. I am happy to be myself and represent something different for women.”