Kristen Bell keeps in shape by eating "colourful" food.
The actress is slim and toned, but admits she struggles to stay in shape. She doesn't enjoy working out and prefers to keep her weight down by eating healthily, something her parents instilled in her when she was a child.
"My mom taught me at a very young age to have a colourful plate. The more colour you are eating, the more vitamins you are getting," she explained. "If you pay attention to what you are eating you will, in most cases, lose weight.
"We live in a world of such immediate gratification that everybody wants that quick fix, or that juice, or that diet. That's not the way it is."
Kristen admits there is pressure on her to look a certain way because of her job. She doesn't pay attention to it, and thinks it's unhealthy to insist all women look the same.
"I've chosen to ignore it. I realised how much of a joke it was when I was criticised when I was pictured on a beach once," she told Look magazine. "All girls sometimes feel like they have horrible bodies and sometimes like we have great bodies."
The Hollywood star is a huge fashion fan and loves treating herself to new pieces. As she has to dress up so much for her career, she spends most of her spare time in casual clothes, although she does have a penchant for high heels.
"I love clothes but I borrow almost everything," she explained. "I love preppy, classic looks and menswear. It's great that men's Oxford shirts have made such a comeback. Also, like any other woman, I love Christian Louboutin heels - they are to die for."
Although she loves fashion, Kristen has made her fair share of fashion mistakes. She can't believe some of the outfits she used to wear, and does all she can not to look at the pictures from her early career.
Kristen is as careful about her beauty regime as she is with her clothing choices. She has dry skin so won't use abrasive moisturisers, and has also decided against invasive procedures.
"I like hyaluronic acid. I also believe in light therapy where you sit under red or blue lights that are UV safe. The stimulation of the lights can help regenerate skin cells and produce more collagen.
"Over the next eight weeks your skin regenerates," she explained to Look magazine.
Kristen Bell's relationship almost stopped her fiancé landing a movie role.
The actress - who has been dating Dax Shepard since 2007 - admits producers on 'When In Rome' were initially concerned that casting the couple opposite one another could lead to problems on set.
She said: "When they started casting they knew Dax and I were dating and almost didn't hire him for that reason. I said, 'I get it, you don't want drama, but we're not very dramatic. If you want the best person, hire him!' "
The 29-year-old actress was thrilled when Dax was eventually cast.
She added: "They did and it was wonderful."
Check out the video at the link for Kristen's Marriage Chill:
Here's another video from Funny or Die about a lost masterpiece of pornography. It was found in a woodworking shop of a Beverly Hills dentist. The porn in question stars Kristen Bell as June Crenshaw, "sex kitten" of the Supreme Court.
While there's obviously no nudity, there's some really great shots of Bell on her hands and knees. Then of course there's the amazing Ed O'Neill. All this directed by David Mamet. Watch and love!
Kristen Bell Has Compared Her Brain To A “Scientist”
The 29-year-old actress has joked there is much more to her than her blonde hair and Californian drawl suggest.
She insists she has a meticulous mind, that processes hundreds of tiny details before it makes decisions about people, and she wishes others would do the same when they meet her, instead of “writing her off” as a bimbo.
“I don’t buy into first impressions. Someone could be making a scowling face and have just stubbed their toe and then you write them off,” she explained to Total Film magazine. “My brain works like a scientist! I need more information than that because I don’t think you can judge anyone on a first impression. Unless you’re psychic!”
Kristen Bell shared her style and beauty secrets with Stylelist:
Kristen Bell, who's bared her pretty pale skin on sun-drenched movie sets in Bora Bora ("Couple's Retreat") and Hawaii ("Forgetting Sarah Marshall"). Growing up in Detroit, the actress frequented tanning salons, having no clue that "the cool thing to do" came with damaging consequences.
"I went on one of my first dates to a tanning salon. The boy who took me thought it would be a really great idea to get a nice 'base' for the savage tans we would be getting on spring break," she recalls with the same dry wit we've come to love in her films. "I thought it was awesome. The information about what I was doing wasn't available to me," she recalls. Now, she urges women to wise up and realize that faux tans are the only way to go. "Even if you're just doing it for vanity, you'll get less wrinkles [by using self-tanner]. I don't care why you do it, I just want to see people getting less skin cancer."
Bell's Shoe Fetish: "I'm a shoe person. I borrow a lot of shoes, because then I find that the turnover rate makes you feel like you're getting new shoes all the time. I really like Brian Atwood." [He's totally having a moment right now, I mention to Bell.] "He sure is, and deservingly so." Bell is also a big fan of Jimmy Choo, and her petite frame got a lift from some black strappy platforms from the brand while we chatted.
Bell's Energy Secret: "Caffeine, to be totally honest with you. Green tea. I try not to do soda." I comiserate with the star about how exhausting it must be to go from event to event, appearance to appearance, and she reassures me that she hasn't lost sight of the fun of her job: "It's also is fun to see your girlfriends and wear a pretty dress. It's a part of the job. There's nothing bad about it, you just have to be energetic. So have a cup of green tea and you'll be fine!"
Bell's Sanity Secret: When I asked her, aside from avoiding the tanning salon, what other things she wishes she knew when she was younger, Bell said, "Don't take anything personally. Anything. I wish I knew that cause it would have saved me a lot of what felt like emotional roller-coasters."
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