14 DAY TRIAL // Ioana Spangenberg, a 30-year-old woman / model from Romania, has a waist that can be easily circled with the hands. Though she's abnormally thin, she claims she eats well and even gorges on junk food, a claim various nutritionists have already challenged.
Ioana started to make headlines after sitting down with The Sun to speak about her odd figure and how she doesn't do anything in particular to keep it that way.
As we also informed you yesterday, she claims to have always been this thin, but insists she's not unhealthy – nor starving herself to maintain her current frail frame.
One nutritionist in particular is going on the record to say that she's lying – or, at the very least, exaggerating when she talks about how much food she eats.
“It’s definitely possible that she’s eating junk food every day but it depends how much. It could be a small handful of chocolate and potato chips throughout the day,” Carolyn Scott-Hamilton, who has not treated or even met Ioana, says for Radar Online.
The comment is made in response to Ioana's claim that she gorges on junk food, including pizza, kebab and crisps, but also plenty of chocolate as well.
“If she’s eating all that salt and sugar she’s got to have cellulite. She risks having problems with her reproductive system, her digestive track, as well as onset diabetes because she is eating so much sugar,” the nutritionist further says.
Even if she's eating right and she still isn't gaining weight (which she claims is the case), Ioana needs to take better care of herself.
Simply ingesting empty calories might not lead to weight gain in some cases, the nutritionist says.
However, Scott-Hamilton believes, judging by Ioana's measures, that she's simply doing this to herself.
“She has very little to no muscle. It could mean she is so malnourished, starving even, that the muscles have atrophied causing the low weight,” she says.
“In order to be that thin, she would need to consume about 500 calories or less – about a quarter of a candy bar a day. A high metabolism doesn’t work that well,” she adds, referring to Ioana's claim that she has a fast metabolism.
Below is a video of the model of whom they say she has the tinniest waist in the world. It's not a pleasant sight.
