A Young Michelle Pfeiffer On The Border Between A Diet And A Cult
Healthy eating is one thing, but with all the pressure to be thin in Hollywood it's easy to slip into extremes.
Anyone who knows anything about Hollywood should know that Tinseltown can make people slip into some really questionable behavior. We’re not naming any current offenders here: you know who you are. But one actress, who has come out with an entertaining – or maybe terrifying, it’s difficult to decide – story from her naive youth, is former “breatharian” Michelle Pfeiffer. If you’ve never heard the term, you’re probably better off for it, because the breatharian diet sounds suspiciously like the start of an eating disorder.
Nowadays Pfeiffer is happy and healthy, but it wasn't always so.
Under the influence of a friendly couple, a young, 20-year-old Pfeffer, new to the Hollywood lifestyle, essentially stripped her diet of everything – she wasn’t allowed food or even water, just sunlight. For those of you, who remember basic biology, that’s not even enough to sustain a photosynthesizing plant, let alone an adult human.
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