Take it from the stars

Healthy servings of raw eggs and boiled vegetables, a mouthful of cinnamon powder or hair reeking of beer — city celebrities share how far they have gone for flawless skin, silky hair and the perfect figure.

Sindhura Gadde

After Jessica Simpson recently confessed to eating bugs to burn calories on her show The Price of Beauty, Tollywood actresses too admit they have digested some strange beauty fixes.

When Madhu Shalini entered the Telugu film industry she did not bag any roles because she was reed thin. The actress was asked to pack on the kilos if she wanted a serious shot at the silver screen. “Being a vegetarian I took a lot of time to put on weight despite thriving on a diet rich with ghee and butter.

When I walked into the gym, people would throw dirty looks my way wondering why I was there despite being so thin,” she recalls, adding, “My trainer made me work hard just so that I would get exhausted and would eat everything in sight,” she says.

But the whackiest diet tip a well wisher gave her was to drink raw eggs mixed with milk. “I was told it was a sure shot way to pile on the kilos, but despite my best efforts I couldn’t go through with it. It was the most disgusting concoction.”

But there are some who actually follow through even at the cost of fighting nausea daily. “I’ve been on a boiled vegetable diet for a few months now. And although I have lost weight, even when I want to, I cannot eat anything else. But the weirdest thing I do to lose weight is to gulp down a glass of hot water with one teaspoon of cinnamon powder in it. Each time I have it, I feel like retching,” says model and actress Bindu Madhavi.

Actress Sindhura Gadde too has had her share of beauty tips. “A make-up artist once said that I would have glowing skin if I went on a 21-day seafood diet. While it did sound tempting, I couldn’t go through with it because I saw friends have allergic reactions,” says Gadde, a former Miss India runner-up. Another common beauty tip she receives is the benefit of washing her hair with beer. “Why would I put it in my hair if I could just drink it?” she quips.

Deccan Chronicle