Lily Allen fears for health of skinny A-listers

The 26-year-old, who married husband Sam Cooper last month, said she has seen first-hand how women in the limelight shun food or pop pills in an effort to be skinny.

She told Elle magazine: “I hang out with models, the biggest pop stars and, you know, really and honestly, I hate saying this, but none of them are achieving those body shapes by being healthy. They’re not just going to the gym two hours a day. They’re not eating or they’re taking speed not to eat. In America everyone abuses that Adderall stuff and people aren’t normal.”

Talking about her own misguided efforts to lose weight in the past, the pregnant star admitted: “I wasn’t eating then, you know. [I was] going out at night. I guess when you’re not eating you have to distract yourself with other things. Come three o’clock it was like, ‘Oh I suppose it’s acceptable to have a glass of wine.’ And then by four o’clock I would have had four glasses. It’s not the way to be.”