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This is probably been brought up before but. . . .


. . .how does this woman shovel all kinds of sugary treats in her mouth all day but she looks like she weighs only a hundred pounds?

"The whole history of the world is the story of the struggle between the selfish and the unselfish"

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she's probably blessed with a very fast metabolism...some people are fortunate enough to have a body that metabolises food very quickly, hence they never gain weight or get fat, no matter what or how much they eat, that's what makes these fortunate people naturally skinny, and clearly Brenda's one of those people fortunate to have a body that metabolises food very quickly. My mum and some of my friends are like that too, their bodies metabolises food so quickly that they never gain weight even though they eat like pigs. Unfortunately I'm not so lucky...my body metabolises food rather slowly so I tend to gain weight quite easily (I think most people are like that)  it's a flaw that I inherited from my dad...in many ways, I'm a lot like my dad rather than my mum...I wish I had inherited my mum's fast metabolism.


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My sister is like that. She can eat whatever she wants, and at 42 years old, she still very, very slim. She's really tall, so it makes her look even skinnier.

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That is so not fair. 

"The whole history of the world is the story of the struggle between the selfish and the unselfish"

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not fair until you get cancer and lose 20 more pounds that you didn't have to spare

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My impression is that she does not cook. When she's busy at work, which is all the time, she doesn't have time to eat normal meals and she just eats Ho Ho's all day. The mystery is not that she doesn't gain weight but why her face isn't always breaking out in zits.

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Chocolate doesn't cause zits; neither does sugar. And most people don't break out after age 25, unless they have the misfortune of adult acne.

Many adults in North America have a poor diet and lots of stress, but most don't break out.

"All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people."

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After the Director called CUT, she probably spits out the chocolate. I read something on her a few years ago, where she claimed her fav food in the whole world was...steamed kale. Yeah, right. Only a 40 something actress in Hollywood would claim that.

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she claimed her fav food in the whole world was...steamed kale. Yeah, right. Only a 40 something actress in Hollywood would claim that.
Not necessarily. Four years ago I started eating clean for health reasons, and my common cravings now are for spinach or apples or yogurt where I once craved m&ms or fast-food burgers. When you stop eating garbage, your cravings change.

"All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people."

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