Here are some photos of Tracy Anderson at an event in the Hamptons a few weeks ago with Gwyneth Paltrow. Goop and Tracy are still in business together and Tracy is still shilling her workouts and diets and whatever. Remember how Tracy has body-shamed Gwyneth several times publicly? Well, imagine my surprise when Tracy’s name popped up in a New York Post story about fitness trainers body-shaming their customers:
Industry insiders whisper that trainers like Tracy Anderson will tell patrons they need to lose five pounds. (Her rep tells The Post that that’s “a complete lie. There’s no way we would have extensive waiting lists at all our locations if that’s how we treat our clients.”)
Is it a complete lie though? Yeah, doubtful. Anyway, Tracy has some newish interviews out about all of the celebrities she knows and how her method is the best. Some highlights:
On Lena Dunham: “We were just texting the other day. We haven’t been working together in terms of her fitness lately, because they are putting everything they’ve got into this last season of ‘Girls.’ ”
Whether she still trains Kim Kardashian: “I have before, but I don’t know,” she said, admitting that it’s possible the reality star streams her workouts online and is keeping up at home. “It is a lot of diet,” she says of Kardashian’s case.
Training Jennifer Lopez: “Jennifer is someone I want to give my time to. For me, I personally like to work with her. Somebody can’t be in line to hire me, I have to want to do it.”
The biggest mistake women make after workouts: “It’s the detox to retox mentality. You have women saying, “Oh, I worked out, now I’m going to go lose all emotional control for the rest of the day, and eat pizza and a pint of ice cream.” And I’m not saying you shouldn’t eat those things. It’s fine to have pizza. It’s fine to have ice cream. You need to make sure more than anything that you’re having balance. You can’t do one good thing and trick yourself into thinking you’ve earned the right to do something bad.”
Whether celebrities are better at staying fit: “No. I think the celebrity culture is all about tricking people into wanting somebody else’s life that seems to be better than theirs. But then there’s also real entertainers and craftspeople who are all different shapes and sizes. They understand what they’re good is at is entertaining and connecting people through love of music, through escape. But I don’t think real artists care to dangle their “hot bodies” in people’s faces for commercial purposes. I don’t consider that to be a true artist. I think there’s a whole sort of breed of artist that is narcissistic and so it’s their narcissism and other people’s desires to fit in or be beautiful and accepted that these people play on to manipulate their emotions with, and I think that is disgusting.”
What always strikes me about Tracy is that she’s so judgy about her clients and about what every woman should be doing for their fitness routine and everything else. “Jennifer is someone I want to give my time to… Somebody can’t be in line to hire me, I have to want to do it.” Tracy has to WANT to work with you. She will only work with you if she approves of you. As for her answer about celebrities and staying fit… she lacks self-awareness.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Someone tell me something nice about her, or give me a cookie or something, because right now all I can think is that I don’t like her or her bobble head and those shoes are awful and make her feet look fat. I’d like to blame it on being hangry, but damn she is always obnoxious isn’t she?
Tracy really wanted to bring back the 90s in a bad way
@dhavynia
slip dress plus bad clunky shoes, you are very very right. It doesn’t suit her at all.
Would you like chocolate chip or oatmeal craisin with white chocolate or a snicker doodle?
@lilac
Those all sound absolutely delicious. I’m thinking whichever one Tracy hates the most, so straight up chocolate chip?
Don’t know about Detritus, but I would like one of each. Please and thank you.
Oh, and don’t worry. I haven’t worked out today, so it’s not like I’m justifying my diet with exercise.
LOL Thank you but get out of my head. You wrote my feelings as well. And yeah, the obnoxious keeps voiding anything redeeming I read about her, or anything she “clarifies”. We don’t have to like her, it’s OK. hehe.
She and Gwyneth and all the negative energy they bring to others needs to go away. Seriously. What joy do these to bring to anyone? That’s what is so ironic about them because they think they are improving the world. We’d be happier if they both just went away quietly.
I don’t know who looks worse in that picture
it looks like something caught in a circus mirror. I am kind of — wow.
I wish celebitchy had a like or love button!! You win for circus mirror 😂 😂 😂
“I think there’s a whole sort of breed of artist that is narcissistic and so it’s their narcissism and other people’s desires to fit in or be beautiful and accepted that these people play on to manipulate their emotions with, and I think that is disgusting.”
GURL! Thats how you make a LIVING!
Sit yo ass down and STFU.
@ LVW2….hell to the Yeeeessss!!! *and fist-bump.
Seriously, if I blow my nose on some sparkling nude fabric, that would totally make me a Van Gogh-level ART-TIST if Tracey or Gwenyth deem it worthy to drape their exhalted figures with, right? 🖌🖌🖌🖌
Suck it Venus de Milo! Tracey needs to get your hips right!
“A little too curvy around the whole area, Venus, but love yourself on 900 calories a day and my workout DVDs!” -smug Tracey
This is from the woman who has “designed” her program to help women be as “tiny” as possible. Not to be stronger, fitter, powerful. To actually diminish the space you take up. Because that is what women should want.
What a delusional person!
Yeah, I’m not sure what qualifies jarhead to decide what an artist does or doesn’t do.
I think it’s just her brand strategy to come across as exclusive and at the top. It seems to be working, so good for her.
Both outfits SUCK. And the shoes Tracy is wearing at tacky as hell and don’t go with the dress.
*starts making brownies* Baked goods and ice cream aren’t “bad”. Shut up.
*Pulls multiple pints of Ben & Jerry’s from freezer; begins making hot fudge to pour over brownies; orders a dozen pizzas*
I’m so happy to see that money can’t buy taste. But I’m certainly glad that it can buy ice cream and pizza. I call the “everything but the…” pint and 3-5 slices of the pepperoni!
I call the Salted Caramel Core pint and in return offer to make homemade Caesar salad and fried zucchini, warm up some frozen tomato sauce, and crack open the case of red wine my Pop gave me for my birthday earlier this month.
Three out of the four Weebyland’s have had a stomach virus all week, so I’m ready to over pour myself a glass of anything. Nothing says welcome to the last year of your twenties like cleaning up someone else’s vomit.
Jennifer Lopez’s body is beautiful and if I were her I would never let Tracy Anderson within 100 feet of her. Her model of fitness and beauty is the epitome of WASP and is not a one size fits all body goal. I’m saying this as a Sicilian American woman who, frankly, is built a lot more like Lopez than I am the average waspy white woman. I don’t want the Anderson body. I don’t aspire to it. My husband doesn’t aspire for me to have it. I don’t want a trainer coming in to “fix” my body. I LIKE my curves. I LIKE my big butt. I like my big chest (sometimes it can be a pain others but I try to have body acceptance.) That’s my problem with this woman and this entire idea of an ideal body. Because it’s always the SAME BODY. And it’s always the same darn white body that you see on the same kinds of white people. I reject this completely. That’s what turns me off on her. Jennifer Lopez doesn’t NEED you, Tracy. Her body is gorgeous without you “working” her.
Lopez does different workouts but Tracy has been a part of her fitness regime for at least a year now. Anderson is fine if you don’t follow her strict diet rules imho. Before Anderson, JLo did a strict vegan diet for a while to lose some stubborn weight so if she loses her curves, it’s because she wants to lose them herself, not because Tracy forced her. The ‘dancer’s body’ has been trendy for a few years now and a lot of celebrities echo Anderson even if she isn’t their trainer (petite, long muscles, train the smaller muscles to tighten the bigger ones).
I find Tracy’s workouts boring and only do the arm exercises. I think most trainers focus way too much on the obliques which gives people that typical straight body you see now a lot. Overtrain your obliques and you will lose your waist, I avoid sideplanks and sidecrunches etc like the devil because it serves no purpose but it’s a staple exercise move. I don’t understand. So many celebrities also do yoga and pilates and they have that boxy waist. You can tell it’s not natural. So Tracy is not only ‘culprit’ for these curve-less bodies.
The obliques are important for strengthening the core which helps prevent injury and improve function. Side planks are a useful part of a core strengthening program. Once you strengthen your core you will notice yourself using it dynamically in everyday life when before your spine and ligaments would have had to bear the bulk of the force, stress, and strain. Never considered that strengthening the obliques might affect the appearance of the waist, but I think the functional benefits make it well worth while.
Lopez looks great and she is fit & strong, but…hers was the first name I thought of when Tracy talked about ‘real’ artists not needing to drape their hot bodies in front of you. That’s exactly what Lopez does.
I think another commentor said this the other day and it’s stayed with me. But the idea of associating certain foods with being “good” or “bad” is really troubling. Yes, pizza and ice cream should not be eaten all the time. However, it seems that people make food part of their branding image. As in, “I’m a clean eater and therefore a good person.” How is it in other cultures? Is this an American thing? We’re getting to a food obsession in an odd way. I don’t ever hear other cultures talking about gluten, antioxidants, superfoods, blah blah blah, whatever the next being diet thing is.
“Clean eating” is totally different – it just means staying away from processed foods. Eating things as close to their natural state as possible. So you can totally eat ice cream and pizza, it’s just ice cream and pizza with ingredients you can pronounce
Who is this fitness trainer to decide who is a ‘true artist’?
I just don’t get her at all.
she’ll never go away wiill she?? not interested in her program nor the body types she promotes. those shoes have me on the floor laughing, LOL
Tracy clunkclunk Anderson, heehee
This woman – lack of self-awareness is right. She’s made her living off of the narcissism of Hollywood and it’s ever-revolving door of it girls and starlets.
Regarding J-Lo, she easily could have said “Look, I’m a busy woman – I’m a highly-certified, sought-after trainer running my own business. I prefer to only work with people who are seriously committed to fitness because I don’t have much time to give.” I don’t think anyone would challenge that. But it comes off as so self-indulgent and pretentious that it just make me roll my eyes.
She’s not wrong about having balance between food and exercise, but again it comes off so precious. However it seems a bit of a mixed message considering the client she loves to trot out is Goopy-twenty-two-year-old-stripper’s-ass-no sugar/flour/carbs/peasant air-Paltrow as one of her success stories.
She is a genius
I read one of her diet books
She promised me if I ate a hugely calorie restricted diet and worked out each day I would look better that when I began
I was amazed
#traceytips
lol #tracytips
And it only costs how much for her “artist’s” hand to reach out from the screen, put you in a choke hold (so you can’t be tempted by good or bad foods) and make you do ballet/aerobics reps ad nauseam? ****typing this as I use a celery stalk to shovel in the pint of ice cream that I’m currently eating. But I’m swiveling around in my chair to burn those BAD calories!
I’d say she needs to look up the definition of irony in the dictionary.
OK, let me start with: I don’t think much of Tracy Anderson. I think I had moved to Indiana right about when she was moving out of the Hoosier state, having defrauded a client base of rich, Carmel housewives of their gym membership fees. That was sad/funny. I don’t like her Grinch-y smiles, her ratchet hair extensions or her proclamations about what fitness is or is not. I also do not like the celebrities she associates with. All of that having been said, I don’t have a huge problem with: “I think the celebrity culture is all about tricking people into wanting somebody else’s life that seems to be better than theirs. But then there’s also real entertainers and craftspeople who are all different shapes and sizes.”
BTW, I think the “hot body,” or at least one of the hot bodies, she’s talking about is Madonna. And that’s all kinds of shade. Also: I was never a big fan of Madonna, but I like her more now that she’s not in the mean girl club with Tray-Tray and GOOP.
there are blogs about this Carmel, IN thing and I always wonder why more people don’t know about it.
Oh snap, her comment about Lena.
Ya… transparent attempt to distance yourself from a less than perfect body type, much Trace? lol I’ll bet she’s seen Lena more recently than any of the other names she dropped.
Those shoes don’t go with that dress.
Tracy is a big advocate of the baby food diet. Check it out. Totally flipping ridiculous.