I’ve been looking at photos of Jada Pinkett Smith over the past few years, and I still don’t really understand what’s different. Like, my eyes know that something is different but I can’t put my finger on it. Did she get cheek implants? Did she get that weird “ribbon lift” surgery that Madonna allegedly had several years ago? Or is this just weight loss, aging and some unfortunate hair styles? See? I still don’t know. I do think weight loss is a factor, though – Jada’s face used to be fuller and her body was more athletic as opposed to how it looks now – very slender. Jada has just given an interview to Essence where she talks about her eating habits… and now I feel sorry for her because she claims she’s never learned how to get enjoyment from food.
There’s a reason Jada Pinkett Smith has maintained her flawless bod for more than 20 years: “I don’t eat for pleasure,” she tells Essence.
Pinkett Smith, 40, explains that she “had the only West Indian grandmother that could not cook. She was an awful cook, and she taught me that you don’t eat for taste, you eat for nourishment. And I have kept that over the years, so I can eat anything that’s healthy.”
Though she occasionally treats herself to French fries and pizza, the star of Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted says: “I eat for my schedule so I have to eat high-protein, lots of greens and healthy carbs so that I don’t fall flat on my face.”
Her diet secrets aside, the actress and mother-of-three also reveals that she’s planning to star in a movie with Will Smith, 43, her husband since 1997.
“Will is going to [shoot a film] with the boys probably, and he and I are gonna do one,” she tells Essence. “He can’t wait. He was like, ‘You and me, next.’ I was like. . . ‘Let’s do it!”
Pinkett Smith’s latest film, Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted, is in theaters June 8. It features the voice talents of Ben Stiller, 46, Chris Rock, 47, David Schwimmer, 45, Sacha Baron Cohen, 40, Cedric the Entertainer, 48, Jessica Chastain, 35, and Martin Short, 62.
Your food issues as a child do influence your food issues as an adult. I grew up in a very food-centric household, and I still feel the influences of that when I’m comfort-eating and stress-starving. The more stressed-out and anxious I am, the less I eat. The sadder I am, the more I eat. For Jada, I guess she never learned to enjoy food in any capacity? Is that what she’s saying? She never had a junk food binge? She never sat down and just enjoyed the hell out of a five-course meal just for the sheer joy of great food? Or is all of this just her way of justifying her very thin figure?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Ignoring her career gives me pleasure. Being bitchy about her career gives me nourishment.
^ love this!! lol
um…jada, I think this is called an eating disorder, she looks so old and cryptic like
I have to comment on corny wasnt able to. I’m the same way I eat when I’m hungry not when it’s “mealtime” Like noon time is lunch time so ppl eat (usually crap) I only eat when I’m hungry. And yes I am thin but it’s so easy for ppl to pick on thin folk but if you say something about a fat person your a bitch. Example “Oh you’re so thin, do you eat” but I’d never go to someone and be like “Oh you’re so fat, do you overeat”. Nowadays if you’re a normal weight you’re considered too thin bc over half the US is overweight. I’m guessing half the ppl bad mouthing her fit in that over 50 percent
I’m not defending her, I’m defending us normal weight ppl.
haha.. she used to be pretty, now she kinda looks like an alien, which is unfortunate..
You could fit her body fat in a thimble.
LOL, I just returned from watching her husband in MIB 3, and I couldn’t agree with you more.
I just busted out laughing in this office like a lunatic
+1
Cheek implants. Definitely. It’s like she’s going for a Zoe Saldana look.
This! I’ve always thought Zoe Saldana had a weird “monkey” look to her face, and Jada has it now too. It has to be cheek implants!
PEOPLE, that’s not the real Jada Pinkett Smith, that’s a Na’vi escaped from Pandora (Avatar)!!
Girl needs to watch a bit of foodNetwork to learn the joys, and heck, the sexiness of cooking AND indulging in good food!
My vote, cheek implants + weight loss = alien appearance
+1
Her cheekbones…o_O
I know right? I get that getting older and thinner might make your cheeks more prominent but these look painful. Her eyes looks smaller too and more cat-like. I really do think she’s had work done. And she’s a petite woman who’s always been slender but not to this degree.
Sigh, I used to like her in her A Different World days and I loved her in Shame with Keenan Ivory Wayans, also in Demon Knight but nowadays she just seems so brittle and fake and ON all the time.
THIS. ^ +5
I’ll have a Crumbs cupcake for her then. And it’ll be pleasurable as hell. 🙂
So they just opened a Crumbs a block away from my office. I’m not a cupcake person but we got 5 of them for my boss’s birthday. Holy crap, that shizz was INSANE. So so delicious….
I am so jealous. I used to love food, wine, dessert. Something simple like pancakes.
After my thyroid died it ruined my palate. Food and drink are gross to me and make me want to throw up. I can’t tolerate cooking anymore, sob, and even my husband drinking bugs me because even the smells make me crazy.
I have to literally choke most of my food down. So I only eat for nourishment too. I hate it. I occasionally have a great meal and am sick for days after.
I wanna cupcake! I want to WANT a cupcake.
OTOH, I find the Smiths insufferable, the whole lot of them. I once bowled next to Will Smith before he became a big movie star. He was with his first wife and kid-or at least they sure seemed a family. At that time, he acted like anyone else there. Times seem to have changed.
Whoa OriginalTiffany ~ That sucks!
This may be a strange suggestion, but what if you smoke pot? Medicinal of course….
Is this another sugary American delight to which I’ll never be exposed in this True North, strong and Horton-saturated?
My heart breaks for you Original Tiff. That’s just sad.
ZZZ-I am a total and obviously free proponent of pot. I post about it when it comes up. This is the only medication that allows me to get anything down.
I just have no palate or want of anything anymore. I just smoked so I could choke a cheese cube down. It’s three and that was my first thing I ate.
It IS sad. Damn I used to love a great Brunello, plate of pasta and a nice dessert. Sob.
Damn! 🙁
Original Tiffany – is it Hashimoto’s or something? None of the thyroid medications can help with your appetite?
I’m so sorry to hear that, because not having a taste for food and having to eat for nourishment is awful. I hope you can find something that will help you soon.
It’s really complicated. I finally saw a specialist last year at Johns Hopkins.
Started with Grave’s. Treated with PTU and Inderal, spent a week in CCU for arrhythmia. After about 8 weeks of PTU while waiting for my radioactive Iodine treatment, my thyroid DIED. This is super rare.
So I bounce around on differing hormone dosages for a while until this doc tells me I never had Grave’s, after US and blood labs, I was right.
But, my thyroid while shrunken and not working has a massive bloodflow so again, one of the first he has ever seen.
Ill see him again when I get to DC after Boston. This has been 5 years going on. I’m pretty fed up, I keep plugging along eating healthy and trying my best.
We all have our crap, mine just takes all the joy out of food and drink:(
@OriginalTiffany – Jeez. I’m SO sorry that you’re forced to deal with such a major life hindrance. Does the doctor think there’s a chance you’ll be able to taste again at some point?
Johns Hopkins is one of the best places you can go. I feel lucky that we live so close to it, because my brother was born with Cystic Fibrosis. (But he’s done incredibly well, so it’s not like he can’t do normal things in life. Work out, have a job, ect.)
I really hope they can help you. =(
I only eat for my pleasure, I don’t eat for nourishment.
I am down with that
I love your name lol
Love your name too!
sadly, it fits my curmudgeonly disposition (even sadder: I kinda like my curmudgeonly disposition)
Are you me?
Haha! Seriously, I feel bad for her. Food is one of the best things in life.
Exactly! To me, ‘she taught me that you don’t eat for taste, you eat for nourishment’ sounds incredibly sad. And Jada´s making it sound like it’s some kind of wise life lesson! The saddest thing is that, in her mind, it probably is. She’s so brainwashed that being thin is apparently more important than anything else for her. Personally, I’d rather have a little fat on my belly than not being able to enjoy food. I mean, what’s the point in living if you can’t enjoy life’s little pleasures?? Bread fresh out of the oven, a cool glass of wine, fresh fruit, salty cheese… think about what a shame it would be to see those things as nothing but fuel.
Agreed!
I don’t know how people can eat when they’re depressed, I completly lose my appetite if I’m depressed or worried about something.
That said, ppl in hollywood only eat enough not to pass out, forget nourishments or pleasure.
LOL! Exactly. I think this is the typical Hollywood diet. At least for women…
Mileage varies. I lose my appetite when I’m stressed/depressed but it makes sense that this isn’t true for everyone.
I wish I were one of those people who can’t eat when depressed instead of the other way around – I would have survived many a crappy day without an extra 10 pounds on my arse
when im mad or upset i cant eat. But generally depressed i can eat the whole house.
Its something about having something tasty to look forward to when there is nothing else to.
I’ve never experienced this! So many people talk about it, but I don’t find my appetite is affected by emotional upsets, unless something literally turns my stomach.
@TruthSF – I’m exactly the same way. When I’m upset or depressed, as opposed to being able to eat (just for the sake of eating, not because I’m hungry), I can end up with no motivation to eat for 2 or 3 days. (A very bad habit, I know).
I have to admit that i know where Jada is coming from (though it pains me to admit).
I don’t eat for pleasure. I eat because I need to eat. It has always baffled me how anyone can eat just for enjoyment but i accept that I’m the unusual one. That said I do like food – some of it is very tasty – but still I would say I only eat when I’m hungry and then not as much as most of my friends…
You’re brain rewards you by releasing serotonin after eating carbohydrates (sugars and starches). Serotonin enhances calmness, improves mood, and lessens depression. High levels of serotonin help provide a feeling of well-being and inner calm. Cutting calories depletes serotonin and can cause depression, anxiety etc. Our brain rewards us for eating and “punishes” us for restricting. We are programmed to find eating pleasurable.
… which is a big problem when you have overweight issues. Using food as a reward is a very slippery slope. Both my morbidly obese sisters in their 50s have been finally told by their doctors they’re not going to live too much longer if they continue to be so overweight. They both love to stand around in the kitchen cooking, then spend the rest of their time snacking, and watching the food channel, dreaming of food indulgences to cook next. Our mother talks nonstop about food and gripes nonstop about her oversized figure. They are all driving me nuts with their food obsessions.
So frankly, although I think Jada is underweight and looks sickly, I think more people need to stop eating for pleasure and think more like Jada said. Find something else to do that gives you zen that is healthy. Take a walk in the woods, for pete’s sake. Research a nice hike, instead of plopping down in front of the Food Channel looking for cakes and cheesy salty carb-ridden empty calories. A moment on the lips, forever on the hips.
Food as a hobby or reward is a dangerous proposition and feeds addictions for the majority of people in the US. Don’t believe me? Sit in the front lobby of your local Chili’s and could how many people go by that weigh less than 200 pounds. They will all be little children.
@Gg, I feel for you and your family and I get where you’re coming from. I use exercise to get my serotonin “high.” I used to be obsessed with eating healthy and being stick thin, but I’ve eased up with age and will now indulge. As I said on the J Simpson post, I feel for anyone with food issues and I can understand why (psychologically and physiologically) people use food to make them feel better. We are fighting our biology when we try to restrict (whether fat or thin).
I too do not eat for pleasure….I eat because I have to…for nutrition. I find seating down to eat a meal, the most boring thing in life. If I could alternate a real meal for a smoothie, I’d be very happy. Don’t get me wrong, I love food, but just find the act of eating tedious.
That’s what I do. A smoothie basically replaces breakfast and lunch. If I try to eat food, I get sick.
And of course I’ve had numerous workups. It’s just my body now. Granted I’m a lot thinner than when I loved food, but at least the smoothie and supplements helps with my body’s rejection of all things fun in the world.
I refuse to give up occasional champagne binges and glasses. I’ve got to have some fun once in a while. Premiere I try to eat as much as my body can handle. Thank God for chocolate covered strawberries! And frozen yogurt.
I totally relate to this, and I do it often. After I had a big health scare, I realized I needed to buckle down and build up my immune system. Started having breakfast – protein shake with Green Super Food mix, OJ, and tons of berries + vitamins is breakfast these days, instead of skipping. I have never been healthier. Other meals are mostly salads including every kind of greens I can get my hands on, with grilled lean meat or fish.
Waiting for food in restaurants, making them take all the damn BACON and CHEESE off of everything, and getting gouged by the bill is a waste of time, money and empty calories. Many other things I’d rather do with my resources that I can get plenty of serotonin going with, air my brain out, plus help fight fat; photography, walking in the woods, playing an instrument, learning a craft – those don’t necessarily cost anything and give you plenty of zen.
If that sounds strict, I can assure you, it’s really just keeping a healthy mindset and not difficult. I still fight fat but it’d be a hell of a lot worse if I ignored my little rules above and ate junk. This is the end of my sermon, lol
@Sera – I personally only eat when I’m hungry, & when I do, I eat little bits at a time, something every hour or two.. But I *always* have to have something to drink with me, can’t go an hour without something (We’ve tested me, & although that’s a common side effect of being diabetic, I’m not).
But I do enjoy the food while eating it, & have particularly strong cravings for specific foods when I do get hungry.
I think somewhere I read that ‘snacking’ was a more healthy option than sitting down to big meals. But I’ve never actually concerned myself with how ‘healthy’ or not my food is. But that’s only because my stick-skinny-late father gave me a high metabolism, so I can’t take *any* credit for my weight.
I never realized how common it was to have these sorts of food issues.
@Sera I agree. It also pains me to almost agree with Jada on this. We grew up in a “meat & 4 veg” household and my mum has always had that attitude towards food. I’ve never seen her eat a huge fattening meal. In 41 years. Good basic food without fattening sauces, butter and the occasional cake/chocolate. My dad does like icecream (rebel :)). They’ve never had any health problems and both are very active in their mid-60’s. I watch a lot of these food shows in horror. The almost food-porn obsession is ridiculous. No wonder so many people are obese – people just aren’t supposed to eat the food they show on these programs. People need to get away from this supposed emotional connection with food that we’ve been brainwashed by food marketers all these years.
I call bunk on her comment. She eats like that to stay thin, and it shows on her face. Up close her face looks like the face of a too skinny person, haggard and drawn. SHe doesn’t want to admit that she succumbs to the Hollywood scary skinny standard. You can see her boob ridge in that black Xenu dress.
ITA!
Me too! Who wouldn’t find pleasure in eating something like a delicious moist chocolatey piece of cake or chocolate covered strawberries etc? Poor Jada, missing out on life just to be skinny. I wonder if her eating habits are rubbing off on her daughter?… 🙁
Gawd! I do not want to defend this woman.
Maybe because she only eats this way, her body now finds that kind of food intolerable. You lose your taste for sugar and carbs when you don’t eat them.
I turned down my mother’s homemade banana cream pie last week! That is a freaking amazing thing right there, because I used to hide the whole damned pie for myself.
Who knows, she seems way too thin. I can still get enough down to maintain my weight, so maybe it’s a load of BS in her case.
I hate to defend Jada but there is more to life than food!
I’m actually a bit like Jada, although I’m not as thin as her, I don’t really get the whole eating for pleasure or as recreation thing. To me feeling hungry feels awful but feeling too full is just as bad if not worse.
I think she wouldn’t look too skinny if she removed those cheek implants, they make her look like freakin’ skeletor! She actually looks alright from the neck down.
@littlestar, i wouldn’t get any pleasure from eating that either. I would feel guilt. there is no nutritional value. You can get pleasure from healthy foods too, it doesn’t need to be junk.
ITA – if she really didn’t eat for pleasure, she would have no need for or interest in the occasional french fry
and now, I’m craving french fries
I disagree being that thin in Black commu nity is not a plus not even in Hollywood.
I know she looks like Skeletor, but I totally know what she means too. It really is all in how you were brought up. I grew up eating a very simple, vegetable & lean meat based asian diet, and I just don’t have a desire for strongly flavored, heavy, creamy, sugary, anything. I do appreciate heavenly, indulgent food, but it’s not something I got out of my way for, or seriously want. To my palate, brown rice and salt tastes great and gets the job done, esp if you’re short on time.
Well, she looks like it.
As you age, you have to pick – body or face. I’d much rather have a little extra meat if I can prevent my face from caving in like that. Jesus Christ, Jada.
Yeah, she doesn’t look good.
YES, she looks HORRID! And ruins the myth that Black don’t crack, but in her case I guess it shrivels!
Dude, she’s the exception that proves the rule–you can’t take the Crack Attack away from me!
Shrivels, ha! I give you a gold star, or maybe it’s a dust star at this point.
On further consideration, I may have sounded a bit like a certain Snort Urchin currently swanning around in the guise of a violet-eyed vixen in that first sentence. Apologies.
LOL!
Round faces age well. The Miley Cyrus type face will not age nearly as much as a young woman with chiseled face.
She is great role model for her kids. Congrats. BTW Does she have sex for pleasure or only for procreation? I’m asking because it would explain a lot.
BEST comment ever!
Every lipid is sacred.
Hopefully her Grandma didn’t teach her that too! Lol.
That quote sounds like something a blood sucking alien would say right before biting off someone’s head. And with that face…
In that second pic, it looks like her skin is being sucked inside out through her cheekbones!
I have the opposite problem, Kaiser. I eat when I’m stressed and don’t eat when I’m sad. Unfortunately I stress out a lot!
Her mom has striking bone structure, so it could be her cheeckbones are due to being scrawny and aging. Curious what the dates on the photos are above. I know some are from Cannes.
The whole family annoys me, but mostly her. She acts like she’s Jackie O of this acting dynasty. Remove stick from ass Xenu lover!
No she had cheek implants put I’n. You can tell in interviews when she turns at certain angles and they jut out weirdly. I knew the first time I saw her like that what she did. It is odd looking and the same look as others have that have done it.
The funny thing is nit one person looks better with them. It’s just the latest fad plastic surgeons push for the women going through a midlife crisis.
It NEVER improves a person’s look, I don’t get it. I am all for it though, seeing as how each freakish elective surgery some not-in-need lady accepts, the better I look in comparison. This is also why I praise Fanta Tans.
Wow she’s bleaching her skin. Its obvious
So I won’t ask her out to a four star restaurant or cook a gourmet meal for her, because she wouldn’t appreciate it or be much fun.
she definitely has fillers in her cheeks. you can see the outline of them when she attempts to smile. Thats the problem with trying to stay Hollywood thin, it drastically ages you in the face and no matter how much filler you use or if you install cheek implants you can really tell theres something fake in there when they make certain expression b/c the face and skin is so thin to begin with.
I dont really follow her but she looks like she would be a nasty person but maybe its just her natural facial expressions.
I think her and Will are making fools of themselves by trying to keep up the happy marriage facade.
She and Bethenny Frankel must have the same surgeon cause they look a lot alike (and it ain’t natural).
True. It makes them look like caricatures of themselves. That look is so plastic and un-natural.
“I’m better than you and think nothing about ruining you lunch by asserting this.”
So, does that mean she doesn’t even enjoy eating healthily? The way she phrased it makes it sound that way.
I always took quotes like this to mean you can’t eat something just because it’s tasty. Tasty doesn’t always mean good, just as healthy doesn’t mean bland. Fries might taste good, but you can’t eat them and expect nutritional benefits.
i dont understand people who dont enjoy food. its sooo freaking good. all of it. healthy, fattening, whatever, everything tastes wonderful.
Definitely cheek implants & too big at that.
She looks horrible & hungry.
Doesn’t look like she does ANYTHING for pleasure. She looks hard as nails and nasty. But this made me laugh: He was LIKE, “let’s do a film,” and I was LIKE, “Yeah, let’s!” Scintillating conversation there. She should’ve thrown a “baby” in there for verisimilitude: “Let’s do a film, baby!” “Yeah, baby, let’s!” Like.
THIS!
Hahahaha yep, this !
She seems so cold and robotic and calculating. I doubt she allows herself much pleasure at all. I bet she makes sure no one around her has any either.
Jada is one step away from Crypt Keeper status.
Her light muscles are the only thing stopping her from being a skeleton.
LOL, I was thinking exactly the same thing! She IS the Cryptkeeper!
I kind of get it. My mom was an obese child so when she had us we weren’t allowed to snack. If we were hungry between meals, she would hand us a box of raisins or a banana. We never had cookies, chips, etc. in our house. Ever. I had mac & cheese & peanut butter & jelly for the first time in college. I married a foodie & the way we eat or grocery shop is completely opposite. But I’m definitely not as extreme as her. If I want a cookie, I’ll eat the cookie.
Your Mom was doing the right thing by offering you healthy snacks. You can be a foodie and not ever eat junk. Most foodies cook healthy food and appreciate good food in small to normal quantities.
Same with me. Never had soda, chips, snack cakes, cookies, microwave snacks, junk cereals, NOTHING. My mom cooked everyday. We never ate out anywhere. Only on special occasions. I’m thankful for it today though. I work in a hospital and once ran into a doctor in the cafeteria. His tray was loaded with healthy foods. I told him his selection was healthy, and he said the same exact thing as Jada “I eat for nourishment.”
That’s very unfortunate.
Cannot stand her. What a great thing to teach your daughter. Honey, you really like that well you should only eat to stay alive and nothing more.
Absurd. Is this really what we’ve come to?
So sad !!
I call BS and with most celebrities say either they truly believe what they are saying or they think the general public is stupid enough to believe it – like US politics.
A diet high in proteins first then vegatables then healthy carbs – makes you THIN – doesn’t give energy.
In fact cutting out carbs can make you low energy.
High protein though will taper off celliute and reduce the bloated look in the face. It won’t make you look droopy or lose your hair like juice cleanses.
Sounds like she is on Dr. Dukan diet.
Maybe that is why she is such a pinched face BITCH!
I don’t think she was this thin when she was on the show “A Different World”…but aging makes alot of people’s faces get thinner. Wonder if she ate for pleasure while she was pregnant at least. Also, it’s odd to say that eating “veggies and fruit” is not pleasurable…isn’t that what she’s kind of saying? I love veggies and fruit…and chocolate…and french fries…and…..
No one eats a pizza and fries for nourishment.
where’s ashley judd?? why has this woman been reduced to her eating habits and weight?
Those sunken cheeks, poor thing. It’s ass or face Jada your 40 now.
I saw the movie Low Down Dirty Shame with Jada and Keenan Wayans, the movie is from around 1994. Jada was about 22 years old and she was so cute! I mean she was a little bit heavier and her face was much rounder, she also had short hair and she was absolutely adorable, so cute. I realize that she’s older now and she’s very attractive, but she looks overly thin and drawn in these pictures.
She looks like Predator.
She was quite pretty at one point, but has been so hard looking the last few years.
I suspect this is more BS celebrity rambling, but if she really gets zero enjoyment from a great deal or indulgent dessert once in a while, that’s kind of sad.
What did or does Will Smith see in this woman – they seem like absolutely opposites in personality and she seems extremely unpleasant. She is looking skeletal.
She’s pretty, but doesn’t look healthy.
Jada used to be such a stunning woman. It’s a shame that she’s ruined her face with plastic surgery; those cheek implants make her look like a hamster.
I once had a college roommate that claimed to only eat for nourishment, not pleasure; she turned out to have major food and body issues that landed her in the hospital a couple of times. I get the same vibe from Jada.
Jada looks okay. She’s aging as we all are and her thinness makes her facial angles look a little sharp but no reason to hate on the lady. Perhaps if more people could eat to live and not live to eat, there wouldn’t be an obesity epidemic in this country.
I totally agree. I think she looks great.
lol “this country.” Fair point, but not everyone is from “this country.”
Not even reading the article because the headline said it all. That translates to BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I once dated a very good-looking guy who said the same thing and thought he was boring beyond belief.
Fortunately, I spent five (5) years with a dynamic attorney who LOVED food and who also ran every single day…a health fanatic who loved food. What could be better.
I am a gourmet cook and cannot relate AT ALL to someone who can’t enjoy one of the few legal greatest enjoyments of being alive.
What a LOSER.
She really f-ked up her face. She looks very very weird.
Keep in mind too that Jada is only 5 feet tall. I’m only 4’11” myself and now that I’m in my early 30s, I have to watch every single carb and calorie. It’s very easy to gain when you are so short.
I am short as well and am top heavy. I have never been super slim even when I wore a size 4. Being short does have its disadvantages.
However, I am now 34 and am at the point in my life where I refuse to watch every single thing I put in my mouth. I am considered just barely overweight according to the BMI and I don’t give a crap. I am healthy. I eat well and I exercise and I’m at the point where i just need to be me and realize that there is no way in hell I am going to be a teeny tiny little thing like Jada. I don’t want to. I want to be happy and healthy and not worry about things such as the number on the scale.
(LOL, of course if my weight ballooned I would reign it in but at this point I have been the same for 4 years and plan on staying here!)
Oh Jada…you’re just so perfect. God I can’t stand her. The thing is.. She looks like skeletor! Maybe she ought to eat more pizza as she is very underweight.
Isn’t Skeletor what they call Marc Anthony? And wasn’t she supposed to be fooling around with him while they were both on HawthoRNe?
God, what a nasty image that puts in my head! A pile of dry sticks rubbing together!
There go your food endorsements Jada.
Eh. I get what she’s saying. I was raised in a food-centric household where everything was always made to be super tasty and delicious. I’ve also been to people’s houses where their version of “tasty” is a lot different – just a basic meal with seasoning or small garnishes. To some people, eating is just a normal part of their schedule that they have to do; not everybody’s a foodie and that’s okay.
If she had said that she loved food, people would be yelling at her for lying. And if Jada was overweight, and people were nitpicking about how much and what she ate and commenting on a double chin or protruding gut, a lot of people on this site would be outraged as opposed to this free-for-all body snarking about her slight frame and cheekbones. Whatever.
Exactly. People on here don’t like her so it doesn’t really matter what she says, they’ll bash her anyway.
Predictable comments tbh.
And she looks good. I’m not sure what some of you are talking about. She’s only 5 feet. Of course she’s tiny…I swear ever since Willow Smith became a singer the hate on this family has been so ridiculous. SMH.
Willow is pretty ridiculous, imo.
Razor sharp, tightly honed body, haunted eyes.. rigorously abstinent.. rather; self-denial starvation for pleasure, yet hungry for fame and to be boss.. in total control.. she is.
YES, Dee Cee!
I don’t get it. If you indulge in fries and pizza once in a while, doesn’t that mean you like that stuff and eat it because you enjoy it? So you do enjoy food …. but your upbringing gets in the way? I completely understand what it means to have food issues caused by your upbringing (oy, it’s not fun) but as long as it’s not an eating disorder (and if she’s telling the truth, it’s not) you can get this under control either on your own or with a therapist/nutritionist etc.
Because she looks hungry. She’s got that pinched mouth that seems to be the trademark of every skinny celebrity out there. They all do it. It’s like they can’t let their control slip for even just a second. Plus, she hasn’t always looked like this so she’s definitely dieting in some form.
Also, if you go for high protein foods first and cut down on carbs significantly, you’re putting your body in starvation mode permanently. My doctor looked murderous when I told her that I wanted to try it because it seems to work so well. “Of course it works but you will have to eat like this for the rest of your life because if you stop, your metabolism will flip out.”
I’m sure Jada likes to ‘eat out’ for pleasure. Just don’t tell CO$. 😉
Jeez. What a bummer. Cooking and eating are one of life’s great pleasures.
Why the h*ll does she think people have taste buds? If eating was purely for nourishment, we wouldn’t taste anything.
That’s not true at all..
Wow, really? Does this mean she’s never had an orgasmic food experience? Oh well, poor her.
I am leaning towards this subject having very little to do with food and really just being about her and her life. Call it wild speculation but I suspect her life is chaotic at the moment and not just family-working life chaotic (Travolta scandal has her nervous?) and she’s using food as a means to try and exert some control.
Ever notice how guys don’t like party poopers like Jada? They get bored hearing about some insecure woman’s rant about her weight. Guys got it right.
Xenu ate her soul
Xenu is holding it for ransom.
I think she eats souls.
Yes, for FUEL, not pleasure….wink wink
She sounds like one of Anne Rice’s vampires who loathe themselves for being monsters and so only suckle a little bit to keep themselves going. Please.
She also has a new more soft and square jawline that softens her look.
Starving african children should learn from her. Idiot.
What does that have to do with anything?
When you suck the souls out of everyone around you, who needs to eat. If she throw back on a doughnut or two maybe she relax. She has constant bitch/constipation face.
Actually, she looks like she’s got sucking-it-in face. She’s slim, but I turned blue just looking at these pictures. Take a breath, Jada!
Possibly when she eats it goes straight to her cheekbones 0_o? I don’t think she got cheek implants, she always had that small thin face with high-jutting cheekbones. If she were going to implant anything into her body, it would have been in the chest area. Don’t think she has had any plastic surgery. Great skin, love the orange dress.
I don’t understand why so many object to what she’s saying. Maybe if more people followed this line of thinking we wouldn’t have an obesity epidemic.
Because we know that celebs are not very forthcoming about how/why they are able to stay so skinny. Too many of them come forward later and admit that they had eating disorders or were pressured to stay very thin. Examples: Courtney Thorne Smith, Porsche DeRossi, Judy Garland, and numerous others.
Because the flipside to being obese is being anorexic and neither are good for your health. I’d be fine if she said she’s not food crazy. I have a friend who is the same way. Get’s no real enjoyment out of food. She eats when she’s hungry and that’s it. But her comment on treating herself to pizza sounds like she’s keeping herself away from food and that suggests an eating disorder with how tiny she is.
As someone who is on stimulant medication for my ADHD, I understand eating only for nourishment. I have to force myself to eat because my brain turns off the transmitters that would give the serotonin rush. I find eating to be a chore. So I understand where she is coming from. However if I took take my meds for a couple of days I do begin to enjoy food again. I make sure to take a day or two every month just to make sure I don’t become underweight. I get what she means but I remember that blind item that everyone thought was her in regards to purging. I think there’s more bubbling beneath the surface.
That is absolutely tragic! *nomnomnoms into pastrami & low-fat swiss “everything bagel” with mustard* LUNCH!
Is not Jada only Mother to 2? Trey has a different Mom.
I think she’s been pretty active in Trey’s life. He’s only, what?…18? So he was only 4 or 5 when they got married.
He must of been the kiddo with with Will and previous wife/ gf. He was little at the time. I thought it so odd. He seemed so happy and his gf was chubby and pretty. What a surprise when he dumped her for Jada.
Lucky Lanes about 15 or so years ago?
I just hope she does not impart her grandma’s wisdom on her children as well.
I’ve been creaped out for years by Jada’s 8 y/o boy body. With whatever she has done with her face, she now literally repulses me. It’s her cheekbones and maybe her eyes? For some reason looking at her is uncomfortable.
You must know some very special eight year old boys. I’ve never known any who look like this.
She’s not kidding about that headline, folks! She is about two power cleanses away from turning into the CryptKeeper!!!
Holy crap, that is one ugly woman!
Jada looks like she lives on a diet of piglet’s blood… her eyes look like they could hypnotise you into a coma.
The whole family is creepy.
Perfect!You got that right,her eyes…(shudder)
I’ve already commented a million times, but I also think this comes from someone who has no idea how to cook. Makes sense if she wasn’t brought up knowing how, then had someone do it for her when she became famous.
If you know how to cook and bake, you can make something like vegetables — normally bland for the most part — taste really good. Or a healthier version of a dessert. And surprise, you can eat these things and still be thin!
I think this is a dangerous message. Food is not the enemy, it’s all about mindset. Eat when your hungry, stop when your full. She has a daughter, and it’s a slippery slope. I think their whole package they’re selling is a little to perfect. I dunno, when it comes to eating habits, people have to be real careful how they talk about it.
“Eat when you’re hungry, stop when you’re full.” Yes! If more people got that, we’d have a far lower obesity rate. No food should be off limits, the key is moderation. It’s pretty simple, really.
Katie Holmes also has this eerie look. Could it be a Co$ thing? Sometimes these women start appearing vacant/hollowed out…..
Yup, true!
All that auditing must make your soul die a slow death.
She looks like she doesn’t eat at all with those razor sharp cheekbones.
I just think it was a bone headed thing to say.. See me, Im special and different.
Jada doesn’t look like she does ANYTHING for pleasure.
Ya, it shows. Gross.
I met her in person after one of her concerts about 6 years ago. She’s so TINY. She’s one of the smallest adults I’ve ever seen in my life, both in height and weight. If she lost even more weight now I can’t even image how sickly she looks up close.
Kids, this is what an eating disorder looks like! Seriously tho, she could stab me to death with those cheek bones.
Jada before the cheek implants.
http://impulsemagazine.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/Jada-Pinkett-Smith-picture.jpg
I have to say I never buy into all the comments about ever celeb having plastic surgery.
but I have to say I do think Jada has cheek implants. or something. I was watching A Different World and her cheeks are really different. Not in an aging way. But again who knows.
All I know from looking at her, is that she looks damn awful.
She looks like a lollipop …big round head & stick for a body…I’d rather look healthy & enjoy food then look like her!
She and Willow are exactly the same size.
man…and she used to be so pretty! :/
Looking at old photographs of Jada, she obviously has had cheekbone implants and maybe a minor nose job. Her nose was fine before, but perhaps not as perfect as it is now. Jada had a very flat face before her cheekbone implants. It is amazing how they changed her for the better.
I don’t get it. She doesn’t eat for pleasure but she treats herself to pizza once in a while? Isn’t a treat for pleasure? I think she’s saying she got used to eating strict as a child so now she can eat very little to stay as stick thin as she is and she’s fine with it.
Those cheek implants are most unfortunate. She looks like the cryptkeeper now. I’ve always thought that she thought of herself as a superstar, when in fact, she is married to one. I also think she is kinda JEALOUS of her husband’s fame. There, I said it. She’s tried to do a little bit of everything and still comes nowhere close to Wil’s fame. Sad. Also, she is the mother of two, not three. Some women are fooled into thinking that thin=youthful looking. It doesn’t. And it’s worse when she tries to dress younger than what she actually is. It looks desperate and played. The cheekbones. AWFUL.
Totally. Thin does not equal looking young. As the saying goes, when you age you can keep your body or your face. She obviously had cheek implants but if she had just a little extra weight it would fill out her face a little more and make her look more youthful.
Remember when Heidi Klum said that older women look better with a little more weight on them?
Jada didn’t get that memo…
She gives it away when she says that her Indian grandmother taught her that. In India, part of the spiritual path is to deny desires of the body in a quest for enlightenment.
Ewww ! I now know what her skull looks like !
LOL nourishment?
All these rail thin pre-osteoporotic actresses [with circa 18th century bunions] make me laugh.
pathetic….she’s morphing into one of those alien creatures, you know? if only her eybeballs would bulge out and her pupils enlarge…
what an arrogant B*tch! i call Closet Bulimic…
Well if people ate more for nourishment and less for pleasure we wouldn’t exactly have an obesity epidemic. I don’t eat for the plesure of eating, I eat because I have to. It doesn’t mean that I don’t appreciate or enjoy it when I eat good and tasty food and sometimes I also eat crappy food (sometimes crappy and tasty are the same).
OMG, what a stupid statement. Maybe that’s why she looks like not fun to be around. No wonder she married a crazy guy like Will Smith. That guy is completely bonkers anyway.
I’m sure it was very important for her to stay skinny for her voiceover work in Madagascar 3 or whatever. Seriously, what career is she going hungry for?
Self-medicating with food is an issue, but denying yourself a basic daily pleasure is a bit needlessly screwy. I think she might be self-medicating with starvation.
I don’t think that people would take so much issue with her comments if she didn’t look so frail and gnt. If she were a healthier looking thin persin as well as a person that inspired warmth, I don’t think that as many commenters would be jumping down her throat.