Image: Joni Edelman.
Let’s say you’re casually chatting over coffee with a group of female friends when one pipes up with something like this, “Oh I only use SOY milk in my coffee. We are not meant to drink milk. And no artificial sweeteners. They give you cancer! Did you not know that?”
Perhaps you’re at a playdate and you pull out a juice box only to see that mum pierce you with her judgey eyes and say, “We don’t do juice. It’s empty calories. You really could just give them a cup of sugar.”
You know exactly the type I speak of.
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Later that night you might just find this same woman crouched in her guest bathroom inhaling an entire pack of brownies, washed down with a big gulp of diet Pepsi, while reading People magazine by the light of her iPhone. Hypocrite.
All of that was the long route to telling you that I strive to practice what I preach.
I said (on TV, to Rachael Ray, so there are a few million witnesses): If you want a bikini body, put a bikini on your body.
And in that vein I present you with this: (Post continues in and after gallery.)
Was it hard to put on a bikini and stand in front of a camera? No. That was, in truth pretty easy. The harder part was standing in a freezing cold pool. And also standing motionless like a cruel game of freeze tag where no one ever tags you back in.
