Ill Have What Shes Having

Posted on 12 February 2017 by Rebecca Harrington

A hilarious look at the eating habits of the fit and famous from Gwyneth s goji berry and quail egg concoctions to Jackie Kennedy s baked potato and Beluga caviar regimen Rebecca Harrington leaves no cabbage soup unstirred in her wickedly funny, wildly absurd quest to diet like the stars.Elizabeth Taylor mixed cottage cheese and sour cream Madonna subsisted on sea vegetables and Marilyn Monroe drank raw eggs whipped with warm milk Where there is a Hollywood starlet offering nutritional advice, there is a diet Rebecca Harrington is willing to try Facing a harrowing mix of fainting spells, pimples, and salmonella, Harrington tracks down illegal haggis to imitate Pippa Middleton, paces her apartment until the wee hours drinking ten Diet Cokes la Karl Lagerfeld, and attempts something forbiddingly known as the Salt Water Flush to channel her inner Beyonc Rebecca Harrington risks kitchen fires and mysterious face rashes, all in the name of diet journalism Taking cues from noted beauty icons like Posh Spice alkaline , Dolly Parton Velveeta , Sophia Loren pasta and Cameron Diaz savory oatmeal , I ll Have What She s Having is completely surprising, occasionally unappetizing, and always outrageously funny. Best Read [ Ill Have What Shes Having ] Author [ Rebecca Harrington ] – kino-fada.fr Well that was a bit of fun Rebecca Harrington sort of kind of follows the diet exercise regimes of the rich famous in some cases gullible I would love to be the quack nutritionist earning good coin for some of thebizarre ideas Although Harrington has some odd ideas of her own if she was serious self diagnosing a gluten allergy after coming off Gwyneth Paltrow s die...I love reading books about dieting not to be mistaken with diet books As someone who has tried a lot of different styles of eating I find it amusing when other people do the same I am always curious about fad diets, but am consistently too lazy to pursue them myself, so reading about someone doing them for me is a perfect set up.In all seriousness though I have struggled with my weight in the past so I find books about weight very interesting, although I leantowards weight memoirs then I love reading books about dieting not to be mistaken with diet books As someone who has tried a lot of different styles of eating I find it amusing when other people do the same I am always curious about fad diets, but am consistently too lazy to pursue t...Hugely disappointed by the laziness of this, squandering a brilliant concept It s basically Harrington s New York Magazine s articles lumped together with no editing or additions Full review available on Bibliodaze.http t.co GyuJ6LSKf5ARC for review Really only one and a half stars.these types of books can be done well see Julie Julia and the recent Jennifer Gwyneth Me but this one..I knew I was in trouble from the first chapter when she talks about her admiration of Gwyneth Paltrow and how her very favorite movie is A Perfect Murder Wasn t that some horrible knock off of Dial M for Murder I m of the firm belief that world can be divided into those who read Goop and sane people In addition, Harrington neve ARC for review Really only one and a half stars.these types of books can be done well see Julie Julia and the recent Jennifer Gwyneth Me but this one..I knew I was in trouble from the first chapter when she talks about her admiration of Gwyneth Paltrow and how her very favorite movi...This was a hilarious quick read perfect for secret readers of People magazine and US weekly.Light as souffle, and super fun, I ll have What She s Having is not without some meat Chapters are divided by celebrities including Gwynneth, Maddona, Liz, Jacki O and President Taft Harrington ties a running commentary of each diet attempt with insight into that person s life She hosts many dinner parties in which she foists her current meal plan such as quail, haggis or brown rice with kale and lentils. onto her friends.The person per chapter format makes it a wonderful book for vacati Light as souffle, and super fun, I ll have What She s Having is not without some meat Chapters are div...Funny but reading them all in a book got a bit tiresome I can see why it works better as a column.I suppose I should be thankful that this filled up the empty minutes while I was waiting for the dentist, but I am mostly not Harrington can clearly write, but this is trite, repetitive fluff I have a weakness for those I p...The hardest line for me to write of a review is the first Always, every time, I struggle to find the right words to capture the essence of the capture of the book I am trying to express So, week after week, I open my review explaining how I got to be reading a particular bookThis week is no different I found the author Rebecca Harrington through her hilarious series in NY Mag in which she trials the different almost always crazy diets of the stars It s got everything bizarre mixes of so The hardest line for me to write of a review is the first Always, every time, I struggle to find the right words to capture the essence of the capture of the book I am trying to express So, week after week, I open my review explaining how I got to be reading a particular bookThis week is no different I found the author Rebecca Harrington through her hilarious series in NY Mag in which she trials the different almost always crazy diets of the stars It s got everything bizarre mixes of sour cream and cottage cheese why, the seventies, why , poking gentle fun at the stars, and loving Gwenyth the way she should be loved I then read her novel, Penelope, which I liked a lot but did not love which, by the way, is better than many of the books I read, which so often bore, infuriate and frustrate me that if I added up the first 50 pages of books I then either threw at the wall o...Happy New Year Who s starting 2015 off with a diet EVERYONE, right Well, you might want to check out one of these fabulous celebrity diets that Rebecca Harrington serves up in I LL HAVE WHAT SHE S HAVING My Adventures In Celebrity Dieting VintageAnchor Rebecca tries out the diets of fourteen celebrities, so you can pick what you think will work best for you Just so you know, Rebecca is quite the funny one and writes the most clever anecdotes, so this whole thing is lots of fun You ll be Happy New Year Who s starting 2015 off with a diet EVERYONE, right Well, you might want to check out one of these fabulous celebrity diets that Rebecca Harrington serves up in I LL HAVE WHAT SHE S HAVING My Adventures In Celebrity Dieting VintageAnchor Rebecca tries out the diets of fourteen celebrities, so you can pick what you think will work best for you Just so you know, Rebecca is quite the funny one and writes the most clever anecdotes, so this whole thing is lots of fun You ll be laughing your head off while you re starving Ha, ha Her first celeb Miss Perfect herself, Gwyneth Paltrow Rebecca buys her cookbooks, workout DVDs and basically finds out its all about expensive foods, kale and heavy on Tracy Anderson abuse By day ten, Rebecca writes I have consciously uncoupled from the Gwyneth diet and lost four poun...

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12 February 2017

Rebecca Harrington