LOS ANGELES – Simon Cowell does 500 push-ups a day.
The 'X Factor' judge sticks to the same routine every day which includes regular exercise, breakfast in bed and at least four beers in the evening.
He told People magazine: "I'll do 500 push-ups in a day religiously, and if I can I like to have a workout. Then I have a steam and a bath but I always have breakfast in bed.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Blake Lively's towering good looks have long been envied, but perhaps even more so now that the "Gossip Girl" star is shedding light on her beauty secrets.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Despite admitting to not having a workout plan, Rebecca Romijn has shed nearly 60 pounds since giving birth to twins four months ago.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Tori Spelling has heard the ongoing rumors that her remarkably thin frame is due to anorexia, so she's thankful to have a support system in husband Dean McDermott.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Scarlett Johansson is fed up with the tabloids continuing to feed the public's fascination to look like a star.
The 24-year-old actress writes on the Huffington Post that she was pushed over the edge by several recent articles that claimed she had lost 14 pounds while training for "Iron Man 2."
I'm a petite person to begin with, so the idea of my losing this amount of weight is utter lunacy," writes Johansson. "If I were to lose 14 pounds, I'd have to part with both arms. And a foot. I'm frustrated with the irresponsibility of tabloid media who sell the public ideas about what we should look like and how we should get there."
The young star points out that as many as 10 million females and 1 million males living in the U.S. have either anorexia or bulimia eating disorders.
"I'm someone who has always publicly advocated for a healthy body image and the idea that the media would maintain that I have lost an impossible amount of weight by some sort of 'crash diet' or miracle workout is ludicrous," says Johansson. "I believe it's reckless and dangerous for these publications to sell the story that these are acceptable ways to looking like a 'movie star.'
"It's great to get tips on how to lead a healthier lifestyle, but I don't want some imaginary account of 'How She Did It!' I get into and stay in shape by eating a proper diet and maintaining a healthy amount of exercise. The press should be held accountable for the false ideals they sell to their readers regarding body image — that's the real weight of the issue."
Johansson says she hopes to media corrects the problem and does away with the harmful messages they feed the public.
"I would be absolutely mortified to discover that some 15-year-old girl in Kansas City read one of these 'articles' and decided she wasn't going to eat for a couple of weeks so she too could 'crash diet' and look like Scarlett Johansson," she says.
LOS ANGELES — Jessica Alba certainly hit the gym in order to snap back into shape after giving birth for the first time, but the "Fantastic Four" star says that wasn't her real secret.
"I wore a girdle," the 28-year-old actress reveals in the March issue of Elle. "Eight weeks after my girlfriend had her baby, you could see her six-pack. She told me to put an elastic band around my waist — any kind of band or girdle works. She was like, 'I slept in it.' "
While her friend's advice proved beneficial, Alba admits the two pals bounced back in different ways.
"I didn't recover as fast as she did," says Alba, who welcomed her baby daughter Honor last June. "I don't have a six-pack — that's just not my body at all."
Alba says being the 2009 Calendar Girl for the Campari campaign forced her to get back into shape quickly, enduring workouts that "were horrible" along the way.
"I cried. And I haven't worked out since," she tells the mag.
While her training was difficult, the former "Dark Angel" star says childbirth was surprisingly easy.
"Contractions aren't that bad," she tells Elle. "If you've ever had bad cramps? That's what they're like. But that moment when they put the baby on your chest — that's deep. It's a deep experience."
The new mother says getting back to work has proven to be a challenge now that she has a little one waiting for her back home.
"This is the first time I've been away from her," says Alba. "It's been six days. It sucks; it's the worst thing ever. But we Skype, so I can see her on video. The worst is when you can see her little chubby hands grab the screen, and I'm not there."
The thought of being away from her daughter quickly brings Alba to tears.
"That's a new thing — I never cried before," she says. "Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess."
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Britney Spears is ripped and ready to go!
The 27-year-old pop star's tight body was on display Friday in new photos posted on her Web site. The pictures come from Spears' rehearsal session on Monday night as she prepares for her upcoming "Circus" concert tour.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Maria Menounos hasn't always had the bodacious body she struts around with today.
The 30-year-old Access Hollywood host was prone to plenty of late-night snacks during her college days, a period in which she could down five slices of pizza in her sleep. Finally, Menounos says, she decided "enough was enough" when she noticed she had reached a size 14.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Less than a year after she was criticized in various blogs about her bikini shape, Jennifer Love Hewitt is going on a health kick.
The star of the CBS drama "Ghost Whisperer" is whipping herself into shape by taking on a marathon as she prepares to turn 30 next February.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — A celebrity fitness trainer is dishing the dirt on some of his clients over the years, including Demi Moore whom he describes as once being "thick."
The New York Post got an early glimpse at Rob Parr's upcoming fitness book, "Star Quality," in which the trainer discusses some of the stars he's whipped into shape.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Long before she was a successful Hollywood actress, Jennifer Esposito paid the bills working as an exercise instructor in Manhattan.
