Reuters
Thu May 16, 623 PM ET
People Magazine Picks Hollywood's Best Body Parts
by Sarah Tippit
LOS ANGELES - Editors at People magazine really, really
like Nicole Kidman, who on Thursday was cited as having the best legs
in Hollywood in the weekly's latest issue celebrating the "best body
parts" of the stars.
And that might make up for some bruised feeling the actress had while
growing up. The 5'10" "Moulin Rouge!" star said that "Growing up, I'd
be described as a colt .... "Having long legs makes you geeky."
And these days since those long legs look so great in million-dollar
couture outfits that the world's top designers virtually clamber to
custom design fanciful creations just for her, Kidman is resigned to
keeping in shape.
She hikes, she swims, she occasionally runs on the beach -- although
she's not a big fan of the gym, according to the issue that hits the
newsstands Friday.
"I'm a water baby," she told the magazine.
And for all that hard work, Kidman and other stars deserve a nice pat
on the back for ranking beyond their peers in terms of having perfect
body parts, said People staff writer Galina Espinoza.
Other celebrities cited for exquisite, and presumably natural, body
parts were actors Tom Cruise and Jennifer Garner, who won honors for
having the "best arms," tennis pro Patrick Rafter who shared
the "best legs" award with Kidman, and Benjamin Bratt and Halle Berry
who were cited as having the "best chest." Sorry, there was no award
for best backside.
In all fairness, and good genes and occasional radical starvation
diets aside, looking good is a full-time job for celebrities, who
almost without exception, work exceedingly hard on their appearances,
Espinoza said.
Take 40-year-old Mariel Hemingway, who is featured in a variety of
pretzel-like Yoga positions at poolside, with the peaceful
countenance of a thousand lotus blossoms. This obviously takes some
work.
R&B star Usher, who shared the magazine's "best abs" honors with
former Spice Girl Geri "Ginger Spice" Halliwell, squeezes in up to
1,000 stomach crunches a day to get his rock-hard abs. And when he's
not on tour, he makes four two-hour trips to the gym each week.
Mere mortals who remained glued to computers 10 hours a day
occasionally wishing they could catch anorexia, can find some solace
in knowing that celebrities are paid to look good, and therefore
while we are slaving away at desk jobs the stars are poring over meal
plans with their personal chefs and sweating hard with the world's
best trainers, Espinoza said.
For example, Cruise, 39, even has a mobile gym that follows him
everywhere he goes, she said, thus helping him keep in top shape for
the rock climbing and other stunts required in his high energy
adventure films.
© People Online / Reuters 2002
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