Stars on the Celery Juice Wellness Trend Love Train: Pharrell Williams, Jenna Dewan and More

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Stars on the Celery Juice Wellness Trend Love Train: Pharrell Williams, Jenna Dewan and More

Get your blender and get juicing! By the time a wellness trend hits your Instagram feed, you can count on one thing: Healthy-minded celebrities have already tried it out. That’s certainly the case with the newest diet fad: drinking celery juice in the morning. Ever since Anthony William, a.k.a., the Medical Medium — who counts Gwyneth Paltrow, Jenna Dewan, Robert De Niro, Liv Tyler, Novak Djokovic, Miranda Kerr and more stars and athletes as fans — touted the benefits of celery juice on his website and social media feeds, demand for the leafy green vegetable in liquid form has exploded. Besides the Life-Changing Foods author’s advocates, plenty of other stars have offered celery juice testimonials. Whether you buy it from your favorite juicery (Kyle Richards says she gets hers at Holy Juice in L.A.), blend it up in your Vitamix or juice it in your juicer (note: blending the veggie lets the pulp remain, which contains filling fiber), the alleged benefits are enticing. Among the supposed health issues the one-ingredient elixir can help with: inflammation, psoriasis, digestion, energy, fatigue and immunity. While sipping 16 ounces in the morning will certainly help you hydrate and the stalks contain Vitamins K and C, some nutritionists and dietitians aren’t convinced drinking the crudité platter staple does anything too special. As NYC-based registered dietitian Rachel Berman has told Us, the herb hasn’t been extensively studied yet, so the health claims are not proven. Says the General Manager of health site Verywell, “Anecdotally, people report better digestion and reduced bloating when drinking celery juice, but it may just be due to the fact that they’re getting an extra boost of hydration.” As of now, “There is some, but very limited, research on flavonoids in celery showing a reduction in inflammation in the body,” says Berman. “However, celery has not been as widely studied as other fruits and vegetables for its impact on health.” Until then, celebrities are more than happy to try out the trend and report back. Scroll through to find out who’s juicing — and how they say it helps them.

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Jennifer Aniston

If it’s good enough for the Friends star, it’s good enough for Us! "In the last year, I've been doing celery juice first thing in the morning," Aniston told Allure in October 2019. “I have to force myself not to go right to my coffee.” After drinking the green concoction, she slams a shot of apple cider vinegar diluted in water. The finishing wellness routine touch? "I also take a probiotic, obviously,” she said.

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Abigail Spencer

The Suits star finds the trend just, well, suits her. “I just got on the celery juice kick,” the actress told Us on July 26, 2019 at the CTAM TCA press day for her new Hulu show, Reprisal. “It works. It works, everyone!” And though she says drinking the juiced stalks isn’t exactly enjoyable, it’s worth it. “Just do it for a few days and you’ll be like, ‘I can go to the beach now,’” she said, emphasizing, “Celery juice in the morning!” Another benefit? “My pants are looser.”

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Elle Macpherson

“I’m a morning person, I love the morning light, I like sunrises and I like that quiet time in the morning before everyone is up,” the Australian model, 55, said in a video accompanying her August 2019 Vogue Australia cover shoot. That gives her plenty of time for a healthy breakfast. “Often I’ll start the day with a fresh celery juice. And then I move on to make a green smoothie. It’s all about the greens, so I love greens, any kind of greens.”

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Brooke Burke

The Brooke Burke Body app founder believes in celery loading. “I do it for inflammation. It’s a really good cleanse and the right way to start your day,” Burke told Us in April 2019 of sipping the green drink. “I do it every morning.” The star, who enthusiastically reposted a celery juice photo from the Medical Medium on Instagram in February, also told Us she’s been “dealing with Ulcerative colitis” — a disease that can cause inflammation of the large intestine or colon — “and some gut issues.” Therefore, added Burke, “I’m trying to heal my body naturally.”

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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

The model is a self-declared “avid celery juice drinker — every morning,” she told Us in March 2019 at a launch for Vital Proteins Collagen Water. “It’s been really great to implement it for me, and it’s not so much [for] the results I see, it’s the results I feel.” Huntington-Whiteley was sold on the sipping the veggie after she read “how celery juice has all these incredible vitamins and nutrients and what it does for your liver,” she added. “I think that ultimately it’s the way you feel first and foremost rather than the way you look.”

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Sara and Erin Foster

The sisters that drink celery juice together, stay together! “We love the Medical Medium. We love him, we’re obsessed with him,” Sara told Us at a Vital Proteins event she attended with her sibling in March 2019. “I think it’s no doubt celery boosts your immune system. So, do I think it’s, like, curing cancer? I don’t know if I believe that, but I do believe it boosts your immune system and when you boost your immune system you’re fighting off sickness.” Erin agreed, and gave her own health testimony: “It’s anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory. I get strep throat all the time and I started following Medical Medium stuff and I haven’t gotten it in almost a year.” Sara has only one problem with the green stuff: “It’s such a pain to clean the machine! I would do it more but cleaning that juicer is a pain in the butt.”

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Selma Blair

The Cruel Intentions actress gushed about her love of celery juice on Instagram in March 2019. “Holy #celeryjuice 💚,” the star wrote. “I am so happy with this gift.” Blair, who revealed in October 2018 that she had the neurological degenerative disease MS, also added the hashtags #healing, #medicalmedium and #cheers.

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Jasmine Tookes

“I just started a few days ago!” the Victoria’s Secret Angel told Us in February 2019 of drinking an a.m. celery juice. “All of my friends are like, 'You'll feel so good!'” Among those pals is fellow Angel Romee Strijd: “Romee has been doing it and a lot of my other friends here from home have been doing it and they're just like, 'We feel so good and alert!' and everyone is talking about it, so I'm like, 'I guess I have to try it!'”

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Petra Nemcova

She’s gone green! “Celery juice, definitely. Highly recommend,” the model told Us in February 2019. “Incredible benefits from taking care, cleaning your system to anti-aging. There’s a whole spectrum, but it’s a lot of cleaning your kidneys, right? And the thing is that the beauty really comes from within. If we have clean and balanced organs, it will show on our skin, in our mood, everywhere practically. So if it can take care of our gut and our inside, it will show on outside.” The Happy Heart Fund founder’s only regret? “I wish I can do it every day, but it’s hard with traveling.”

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Dean Winters

The Law & Order: SVU star is seeking juice justice. “I've been doing it for about five years now and someone saw me making it into my house and they're like, ‘Oh, you're part of this whole trend,’” he told Us in February 2019 of sipping celery juice every morning. “I guess in the last year it's been, like, a real kind of prescription, right? But I've been doing it for a long time. It's just one of those things that makes me feel great when you wake up.” Specifically, he added, “I just feel energized.”

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Jenna Dewan

The actress and wellness advocate let her Instagram followers know in January 2019 that she was testing out the celery lifestyle. “Bottoms up! @medicalmedium tells me celery juice first thing in the morning on an empty stomach for anti inflammation, healthy gut, immune boost goodness 🌱 anyone else trying this too?” she captioned the picture. Dewan previously told Us that she only has juices for breakfast. “My one biggest tip I tell everyone is that years ago I stopped eating breakfast in the morning.” Instead, she makes “a big green smoothie... That really transformed my body, my skin and just my energy level throughout the day.”

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Kim Kardashian

Like others who suffer from the skin condition, the KKW beauty mogul will try just about anything to help her psoriasis: In January 2019, that included guzzling the green stuff. Not that she loves it. “Celery Juice. Pretty gross,” she wrote on an Instagram Story photo, “but saw that the @medicalmedium says it helps psoriaris soooo.”

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Kyle Richards

"Celery juice, honestly, I feel like is a game changer," Richards told Bravo’s The Feast in February 2019. "I’ve read all of the Medical Medium’s books and I drink that every single day. I go to my workout with my girlfriends and we drink our celery juice and we are killing it… I honestly think it’s made a big difference on my skin and my face."

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Stassi Schroeder

The Vanderpump Rules star is trying the herbaceous elixir for its alleged psoriasis benefits, but she may be holding her nose while she glugs. “This celery juice s--t better freaking work because it tastes like butthole,” she wrote on a February 2019 Instagram Story, adding the hashtag #psoriasis.

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Pharrell Williams

As the Grammy Award winner showed in a September 2018 Instagram photo simply captioned “Green Juice,” he was a fairly early adopter of the celery juice trend. Williams has praised the Medical Medium, saying, “He has a gift. Do your body a favor and treat yourself.”

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Miranda Kerr

“I always start my day with fresh, cold-pressed celery juice,” the model told The Coveteur in August 2018. And she keeps plenty of stalks on hand: “I make it at home.” 

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Busy Philipps

She learned from the best! “Apparently it’s supposed to do all these wonderful things for you and something with Gwyneth Paltrow and I don’t know but I’m on board,” the Busy Tonight host wrote on Instagram in 2018. “So now I’m drinking celery juice. It’s really good.”