Oh, Lettucecup

Rachel "Lettucecup" Zoe, celebrity stylist to the stars, has long been linked to various blind items and gossip tidbits like this one on Nicole Ritchie's MySpace a while back. (What 35 year old raisin face whispers her order of 3 peices of asparagus for dinner at Chateau everynight, and hides her deathly disorder by pointing the finger at me, and used her last paycheck I wrote her to pay for a publisist instead of a nutritionist?)

Zoe has also famously been accused of pushing diet pills on her clients. Stars who've signed on with Zoe and gotten dangerously thin include not only Ritchie but also Mischa Barton, Lindsay Lohan, and Kiera Knightley. Circumstantial evidence! My favorite kinds!

Rachel Zoe did an interview with the New York Times denying the diet pill allegations:

"Sounding by turns wounded and willful, she added: 'I’ve never touched a drug in my life. Until recently, I didn’t even know what crystal meth was. And I haven’t known the name of a diet drug since Dexatrim in the ’80s. The only person I’ve told to lose weight is my mom.'"

It's amazing that she hangs out with Lindsay Lohan and doesn't know what crystal meth is. I mean come on, how disingenuous can you be? In other words: I don't buy it. Also, she's kind of a bitch to her mom, isn't she?

"I Don't Eat"

I was watching the Oscar pre-show last month on E!, and caught a refreshing conversation. There were two hosts, one thin and the other disturbingly super-skinny. Here's a paraphrase:

Thin: You are so thin! It's amazing! How do you do it! Do you eat?
Skeleton: Not really.
Thin: (surprised laughter)
Skeleton: I'm really tired of these actresses saying "I eat cheeseburgers all the time!" It's such a lie. I'm always on a diet. I never eat. All I've had today is a cherry.

It was just an offhand piece of banter but it totally stuck with me. I love that she's admitting that in order to achieve looking like a skeleton, she has to not eat. Simple as that. Ever wonder how many calories the average celebrity consumes? Snarky Gossip hypothetically breaks it down for us:

GWYNETH PALTROW: Mother-of-two Gwyneth has followed a macrobiotic diet for years. Recently she adopted a diet prescribed by celebrity health guru Dr Joshi. s well as dairy, red meat and alcohol, she is banned from eating wheat, tomatoes, peppers, fruit, sugar and gluten. Typically she eats celery sticks for breakfast, lentil soup for lunch and salmon with brown rice for dinner.
One portion celery sticks: 10 cal.
One portion lentil soup: 150 cal.
One portion grilled salmon: 127cal.
One 200g portion cooked brown rice: 216 cal.
Total: 503 cal.

Other celebs on the list include Renee Zellwegger, Kate Winslet, and Victoria Beckham. Found via Fitness Fixation.