14 DAY TRIAL // Peaches Geldof has been making headlines for several months now, especially after she lost a lot of weight in a matter of weeks. In a recent interview with The Sun, the television star admits to unhealthy practices to keep the pounds off her slim frame.
Though she initially said that she'd dropped in weight because she came down with bird flu and then overhauled her diet to exclude unhealthy options, Peaches is now singing a different tune, revealing the actual manner in which she stays slim.
Juice cleanses are as popular as they are criticized. They can help the slimmer go down in pounds but the cost is very high in the long run, because they deprive the body of nutrition and can lead to various health issues farther down the road.
Yet Peaches seems to love them.
Speaking with the British tab, she says she can stay on such a cleanse for up to a month, during which she drops about 10 pounds (4.53kg).
The worst part, though, is that she binges afterwards.
“I do juicing. You juice vegetables and then you drink it three times a day. It’s gross. I do it usually for about a month. I have no willpower but with the juicing I’m like, 'I have to do it because I have to lose this extra ten pounds',” Peaches says.
“I will lose it then I’m back going mental for the chips. I’ll juice and then I eat chips,” she adds.
Peaches believes she's learned this unhealthy behavior because of pressure from the industry to look a certain way.
“Sometimes it’s hard. If you open any high-fashion magazine, the girls in it are stick-thin and then they’ve been airbrushed down to the point where it’s just ludicrousness. I have days when I wake up and think, 'I’m so fat',” she says.
Even so, even if she feels this way, health experts point out, she should not be speaking as if to promote a juice cleanse: it's thinking like this that kills anorexics.
“Rapid dieting like this not only makes you lose muscle strength but wastes away your internal organs. It is what kills anorexics. It is a stupid approach and it is irresponsible to promote this sort of disordered eating,” Cath Collins of the British Dietetic Association says for the same publication.