Supermodels are not born — they are made.
Just ask Molly Sims, the leggy Sports Illustrated cover girl who claims
she grew up in small town Kentucky as an overweight teen with bad skin, braces
and a unibrow.
“I wasn’t born this way,” the 41-year-old beauty tells the Daily News
on the eve of publication of her new book, “The Everyday Supermodel: My Beauty,
Fashion, and Wellness Secrets Made Simple.”
“I worked my ass off to look like a supermodel,” Sims adds.
The hard work — and Botox, she admits — paid off. From 2000 to 2006,
Sims was a fixture in the SI swimsuit issue — most famously posing in a $30
million, diamond-encrusted bikini — and has since enjoyed success as an
actress, appearing in movies, videos, all five seasons of NBC’s “Las Vegas” and
on boxes of CoverGirl cosmetics.
Not bad for someone entering her fifth decade.
So now the hard work centers on maintaining her gorgeous well-being
while raising a toddler with her film producer husband Scott Stuber. Another
child is on the way, too.
So the book is a primer for entering, surviving and thriving in middle
age.
“I know what works because I’ve tried everything,” Sims says. “I’ve
become a guinea pig for every diet, exercise routine and skin care product out
there.”
The new book, written with Tracy O’Connor, enters an already crowded
self-help market with an impressive 100,000 first printing — an indication that
Dey Street Books is confident that the public wants to hear Sims’ tips for
maintaining those runway-ready looks and that inner glow.
Sims offered Daily News readers a preview:
DIET
Sims is a big believer in kickstarting with a liquid fast, whether it’s
three days on lemon water or a week-long regimen of veggie juice.
“It changes your taste buds,” she says. “You don’t crave sugar or other
artificial substances afterward.”
After the fast, Sims resumes her plant-based, fiber-rich daily diet.
She never looks at calories, or jumps on a scale, rather relying on her overall
healthy approach to eating to keep the pounds off.
Low-fat and organic are other touchstones, but the fiber found in
grains, beans and many vegetables is her magic bullet. They fill you up, but
not out.
“Fiber cannot be broken down into sugar. . .so it will never turn into
fat,” she exults in the book.
EXERCISE
Sims says her “perfect storm” is a fitness program that strengthens,
tones, builds long, lean muscles and keeps the weight off.
In the book she presents a selection of routines that include an upper
and lower body workout by Tracy Anderson (who is also Gwyneth Paltrow’s fitness
guru), specific Pilates moves and yoga poses.
But she says the secret to a good workout is breaking a sweat.
“I absolutely believe that sweating burns more calories and gets rid of
toxins,” she says. “It’s like a total body flush.”
SKIN CARE
Sims recommends and lists an array of commercially available products divided
into day and night categories. By day she reaches for creams to protect her
skin, at night she uses products that repair dull skin and wrinkles.
“You really have to have a daily regimen,” she insists. “You must take
care of your skin no matter how young you are.”
She’s also a fan of various cosmetic treatments — such as chemical
peels and laser resurfacing — that are available only at the dermatologist’s
office.
Sims is a big advocate of Botox — early and often.
“People are going to hate that I’m saying this, but I’m very
expression-y and by the time I was 30 I had wrinkles,” Sims says. “Botox
retrained my muscles.”
SELF IMAGE
In a chapter titled “I Made That S--t Happen,” Sims reveals her secrets
to inner beauty.
“Getting deep down and dirty with yourself about who you really are and
what you really want is essential,” she stresses.
By her mid-30s, Sims says she was in a downward spiral after splitting
from two guys, a likely reference to the actors Enrique Murciano and Justin
Chatwin, from whom Sims had famous splits. In both cases, she vowed to never
sell herself short again.
“I knew I had to get specific about what I wanted and then make myself
go after it,” she says.
Sims is absolutely adamant that a happy marriage wouldn’t have been in
her future unless she had lived her own advice.
“Know the value of who you are,” she insists. “And never let anyone
devalue you.”
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