Celebrities Who Stick to Extremely Healthy Diets: Kourtney Kardashian, Tom Brady and More

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Celebrities Who Stick to Extremely Healthy Diets: Kourtney Kardashian, Tom Brady and More

Healthy eaters only! While most stars stick to balanced diets with the occasional cheat meal thrown in every now and again, there are some celebrities who are known for keeping to very strict eating regimens almost all the time, with little room for flexibility. Take Kourtney Kardashian, for example. The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star has a whole website dedicated to her healthy lifestyle and food choices and she's candid about the kinds of fare she and her family avoid. "In my house, we are gluten and dairy-free," she told Health magazine in April 2020. The mom of three launched Poosh in April 2019. Kardashian, who shares daughter Penelope and sons Mason and Reign with ex-boyfriend Scott Disick, even got into an argument with her sister Kim Kardashian over the sweets they were going to serve at Penelope and Kim's daughter North's joint Candy Land-themed birthday in June 2019. While Kim (who ultimately won the fight) wanted traditional candies as well as ice cream, cake and more treats, Kourtney advocated for salads and healthier sweets, insisting that candy causes aging and food coloring “gives people diseases." [jwplayer ShyfDg1F-l3ahXupL] Though Kourtney has been known to ease up on the healthy eating every so often, her family is well aware of the dietary restrictions she imposes. Kim made a veiled reference to those rules in June 2019 when she and Mason snacked on popcorn kernels and ice cream sandwiches together. "When I baby sit [sic]," the KKW Beauty founder captioned an Instagram photo of the duo enjoying their treats. Another star who is a stickler for healthy eating is Jennifer Lopez, who relies on her private chef, Kelvin Fernandez, to whip up an array of nutritious meals and snacks that keep her on track. The culinary pro told Us Weekly exclusively in April 2020 that he cooked for Lopez for an entire month prior to her February 2020 performance during the Super Bowl LIV halftime show. “The cool thing about it was, that woman, when she has a goal, she has a goal. It’s time to say, ‘Kelvin, here’s the diet plan. Here are the things that I want to eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner,’” he said, noting that her "intense" pre-show diet eliminated carbs and sugar. "I’ve never had breakfast vegetables before, but this woman was having egg white scramble with vegetables three different ways and every single day," he continued. "When she wants something healthy, she’ll stick to it." Scroll down for more stars who stick to strict diets.

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Celebrities Who Stick to Extremely Healthy Diets: Kourtney Kardashian, Tom Brady and More

Healthy eaters only! While most stars stick to balanced diets with the occasional cheat meal thrown in every now and again, there are some celebrities who are known for keeping to very strict eating regimens almost all the time, with little room for flexibility. Take Kourtney Kardashian, for example. The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star has a whole website dedicated to her healthy lifestyle and food choices and she's candid about the kinds of fare she and her family avoid. "In my house, we are gluten and dairy-free," she told Health magazine in April 2020. The mom of three launched Poosh in April 2019. Kardashian, who shares daughter Penelope and sons Mason and Reign with ex-boyfriend Scott Disick, even got into an argument with her sister Kim Kardashian over the sweets they were going to serve at Penelope and Kim's daughter North's joint Candy Land-themed birthday in June 2019. While Kim (who ultimately won the fight) wanted traditional candies as well as ice cream, cake and more treats, Kourtney advocated for salads and healthier sweets, insisting that candy causes aging and food coloring “gives people diseases." [jwplayer ShyfDg1F-l3ahXupL] Though Kourtney has been known to ease up on the healthy eating every so often, her family is well aware of the dietary restrictions she imposes. Kim made a veiled reference to those rules in June 2019 when she and Mason snacked on popcorn kernels and ice cream sandwiches together. "When I baby sit [sic]," the KKW Beauty founder captioned an Instagram photo of the duo enjoying their treats. Another star who is a stickler for healthy eating is Jennifer Lopez, who relies on her private chef, Kelvin Fernandez, to whip up an array of nutritious meals and snacks that keep her on track. The culinary pro told Us Weekly exclusively in April 2020 that he cooked for Lopez for an entire month prior to her February 2020 performance during the Super Bowl LIV halftime show. “The cool thing about it was, that woman, when she has a goal, she has a goal. It’s time to say, ‘Kelvin, here’s the diet plan. Here are the things that I want to eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner,’” he said, noting that her "intense" pre-show diet eliminated carbs and sugar. "I’ve never had breakfast vegetables before, but this woman was having egg white scramble with vegetables three different ways and every single day," he continued. "When she wants something healthy, she’ll stick to it." Scroll down for more stars who stick to strict diets.

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Gwyneth Paltrow

The Goop founder has made trying out new and interesting diets part of her career. In the fourth episode of her Netflix series, The Goop Lab, the Talented Mr. Ripley actress acted as guinea pig for a five-day fast-mimicking diet to see if she could reverse her biological age. She has also written four cookbooks full of healthy recipes. In January 2020, the Goop Clean Beauty author walked Harper’s Bazaar through what she consumes in a day, which mostly included protein and fiber-rich foods.

"I'm usually eating for lunch stuff that you would see on the Goop website," she said at the time. "Like, a salad with some protein, or sometimes they're testing something really fun for detox, like they're using jicama for taco shells. They'll do a really clean version of a turkey burger with some kind of great sauce. It's very healthy and wrapped in lettuce or something like that."

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Kourtney Kardashian

The Poosh founder has done intermittent fasting as well as the keto diet, which she's been on multiple times. When she's practicing intermittent fasting, the California native typically has an early dinner and stops eating around 7 p.m. She doesn’t eat agin until after her workout the following morning and sticks to foods that are packed with satiating protein and fiber such as avocado smoothies and salads. If she's on keto, Kardashian avoids foods like grains, beans and juice in an effort to limit her carbohydrates and added sugars.

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Teddi Mellencamp

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum, who works as a life coach, has been open and honest about her struggles with weight in the past. She dropped nearly 80 pounds many years ago after saying goodbye to fad diets and now focuses on a very regimented eating and workout schedule in order to stay fit. She sticks to pre-prepared meals from Gracefully Fed, which are organic as well as gluten and dairy-free. The Bravo personality also stocks her refrigerator with pre-cut fruits and vegetables in an effort to curb any unhealthy snacking. “Those that know me have seen me fluctuate in weight my entire life,” she wrote in a lengthy Instagram post in August 2017. “There is no magic pill or potion that helped me reach my goals but being held accountable and holding myself accountable made all of the difference in the world to me.”

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Jennifer Lopez

The "On the Floor" singer showed off her enviable physique during the Super Bowl halftime show in February 2020 and according to her chef, Kelvin Fernandez, she stuck to a very strict eating regimen in order to be performance-ready. The Grammy nominee eliminated carbohydrates and sugar from her diet — and had no problem calling out Fernandez for easing his restrictions when he made a “family-style” dinner one day. "The next day she’s like, ‘Kelvin, you served me rice.’ And I’m like, ‘No, no, no, no, no, there was chicken, there was salad. You grabbed the rice!’” he told Us exclusively in April 2020. Generally speaking, Lopez starts her day with a green juice and loves to eat egg whites and turkey bacon.

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Angela Bassett

The Black Panther star, who has maintained a slim and toned physique for decades, attributes her appearance to a healthy, organic diet. "I'm regimented and rigorous about what I'm eating," she told Net-a-Porter in July 2018. "Diet is 85 percent of the whole thing for me." That means avoiding all the obvious bad stuff. As she explained to Violet Grey in August 2014, "I cut [out] the sugar, the alcohol and the bread, and eat a lot of protein and veggies."

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Tom Brady

The professional football player, who shared a "family favorite" broccoli recipe with Us in July 2020, is known for abiding by a strict diet that once omitted milk, sugar and certain vegetables. Though Brady's not exactly an adventurous eater — he had his first strawberry in March 2018 — the California native now allows some cheat meals from time to time. "If I’m craving bacon, I have a piece. Same with pizza,” he told Men's Health in August 2019. “You should never restrict what you really want. We’re humans, here for one life." Still, the athlete's daily meal plan consists of nutritious foods such as banana smoothies, avocado and eggs and roasted vegetables with chicken.

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Naomi Campbell

In June 2020, the model's chef, Sean John, revealed a litany of her dietary restrictions including no dairy, chicken or gluten. He also shared that the Empire alum doesn't eat airplane food (like, ever) and sticks to meals that are "super clean and really healthy." According to John, Campbell is "basically a vegetarian/pescatarian."

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Kelly Ripa

The Live With Kelly and Ryan cohost detailed everything she eats in a day for a March 2020 Harper's Bazaar video and revealed she doesn't consume any "chewing" food until after she films her talk show every morning. Ripa is partial to large salads, fresh vegetables and plant-based proteins and doesn’t exactly buy into the whole cheat meal philosophy. “I try not to have that many cheat meals, because cheat meals leads to a cheat lifestyle,” she shared at the time. “At my age now, I find that it takes too much effort to get ready, so I just stay ready.”

However, that doesn’t mean the Hope and Faith alum doesn’t indulge from time to time. “On my birthday will I have cake? Of course," she explained. "I’m not a monster.”

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Victoria Beckham

When the fashion designer turned 44 in April 2018, she shocked the internet by celebrating with a fruit plate instead of marking the occasion with a more traditional cake or other pastry. "Love from a very lucky mummy x," Beckham captioned an Instagram clip of her healthy treat. Instead of gorging on sweets, the London native sticks to healthy fats and, as she told The Telegraph in September 2019, that often translates to eating "three or four avocados a day." Some other fats, however, are a no-go. According to Vogue U.K., Beckham has completely cut out milk and cheese from her diet.

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Kristin Cavallari

The Laguna Beach alum follows the 80/20 rule, which, for her, means that she eats gluten-free, avoids most dairy and cooks at home 80 percent of the time. "We don't do anything white, so we don't do white flour, white sugar or white salt," she told Women's Health in April 2020. However, the reality star is decidedly more relaxed the other 20 percent of the time and saves room for her fave Italian foods and restaurants.