Angie Harmon: Looking good, without the gym

by Martha Edwards (Subscribe to Martha Edwards's posts)
Nov 20th 2007 10:22AM

Actress Angie Harmon looks stunning on the cover of this month's Shape Magazine. She's slim and toned, with the kind of body that many women would kill to have. But within the covers of the magazine, she reveals something verrrrry interesting: She doesn't go to the gym. What's more, her diet consists of lots of Southern food, which is notoriously high in calories.

So how does someone look that good without going to the gym? The mom of two and star of Women's Murder Club credits good genes and moderate portions of the food she eats. She also tries to feed her family only organic, healthy foods and they try to avoid sugar. As for fitness? She gets activity in by playing with her kids and planning active family outings on the weekends.

What do you think? Do you believe that moderate eating and playing with the kids can give you a killer body?

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Vishaal 11-20-2007 @ 2:06PM

HELL no. This woman does cardio 6 days a week for an hour and does weights/yoga/pilates just like everyone else.

Martha Edwards 11-20-2007 @ 2:10PM

Vishaal, I think I have to agree with you. She is pretty toned, and I doubt you can get that way from running around the yard. Still, it seems a silly thing to lie about.
Thanks for your comments!

Judy 11-20-2007 @ 3:24PM

Yeah, I do think it can do a lot for you. Really.

Now, from this one picture I can't tell how toned she is, but I've known lots of people who are thin without ever exercising. And "playing with kids" can mean racing with them, riding bikes, playing ball, long walks - lots of very active things.

After I had my 3rd child, without ever going to the gym, I looked pretty good (not perfect - still not - but good). It was mostly just from eating well. I do go to a gym now, but I'm still pretty lazy about it. I've actually been figuring out ways to get workouts in my backyard, with my kids. I use their swingset to do pull-ups, the ladder to the slide to do step stuff, jog alongside my son on his bike during walks.

I think one of the ways to get people to get in more exercise is to show them they DON"T have to go to a gym to get it done. I think exercise that is more "real," enjoyable and just part of life would be more effective.

And while I do enjoy going to workout, I hate having to make the drive to and from, and so skip sometimes when I would rather stay at home.

Janet 11-23-2007 @ 6:46AM

It will catch up with her! When I had my kids ... I got back into shape quick too... nursing does wonders for the body! Now I teach aerobics 4+ times aweek and my kids are grown and gone!! Your body changes as you age... I'm just trying to stay tone and ahead of the age clock!! Hmmm... maybe I should have another baby to lose weight! hehehe!

Smahtasz 11-23-2007 @ 7:11AM

HA! What a liar! There is NO WAY she doesn't work out, because the muscles are there and at her age, they don't just look like that, it's impossible without some kind of working out and dieting...

Susan 11-23-2007 @ 7:11AM

I don't think this would work for most people. I know I look much better when I do intense rather than moderate exercise. There's a huge difference.
I also think that Shape should stick with putting women who actually work out on the cover. They once used Elizabeth Hurley and I believe that she said in an interview that she hates exercise and just diets. That's fine for Vogue, but not for the cover of a fitness magazine.
Susan

trupprecht3@aol.com 11-23-2007 @ 7:15AM

Definitely not! I go to a personal trainer 2x per week and I've gotten amazing results but there are just fundamental things that we have to do with our bodies for them to be toned. Especially women, you need to do a mix of cardio and strength training in order to get results. She may have come from 'model' genes but that only goes so far. Portion control is part of it too and it sounds like she acknowledges that at least. I just bothers me when stars try to put themselves once again on a pedastal--that they don't have the same weight loss/toning rules as the rest of us regular people. Give me a break, how stupid do they think we are?

Susan 11-23-2007 @ 7:34AM

A simple google search will yield the name of her personal trainer.

http://www.forbes.com/2007/10/12/star-workout-gym-forbeslife-cx_rr_1015health.html

Article from last month. She's an idiot.

sandra 11-23-2007 @ 7:52AM

You are so right Susan, I can't believe she lied, how stupid.

Susan 11-23-2007 @ 7:57AM

I don't know why she would lie during an interview with a fitness magazine anyway, which promotes exercise. She must have thought she was on her Harpers Bazaar interview.

Nancy 11-23-2007 @ 8:02AM

I think Angie Harmon is among the anorexic that we tend to glorify. She's so thin that she looks awful. I don't want a body that consists of starving myself and one that sends awful images to young girl of what a woman should look like. She doesn't have a killer body; she has a body that kills others when they stave themselves to look like her. I wish someone in Hollywood would say no more to the severely thin, hungry and frail women. If we'd all quit glorfying these terrible images of starved women, they wouldn't be in our faces 24/7.

SUZ 11-23-2007 @ 8:23AM

It is possible is it true, who knows. Portion control is EVERYTHING because it determines how many calories one consumes. Eating 500 calories of high fat bacon and sausage and that is it in one day WILL DO FAR MORE in the way of weightless than eating 1500 calories of nutritious grains and lean proteins. Weight loss is dollar and cents calories, input and expenditure. If one consumes less or an adequate amount to what they burn in a day, their body will reflect that, exercise aside.

lynda Foster 11-24-2007 @ 7:44AM

It is all in the body type. Genes.Genes.Genes. she is one of the lucky ones. Damn her.HAH! No. I think she is great.
Lynda foster
Palm Beach

daisy 11-23-2007 @ 8:27AM

I can't stand her. Years ago, I saw her on Jay Leno. She came out with a box of godiva chocolates for him and told him she ate chocolates EVERY night and had a pint of ice cream before she went to sleep. Jay then offered her a chocolate and she said no as she had had SOOOOO many before. She is so full of it, if she had eaten 3 leaves of lettuce that is more like it. I don't understand why actresses lie and say they do nothing and they are just so thin. Do they understand how hateful that makes them.

I am a formerly very overweight child that is a normal in shape woman that works hard at it every day. I swear by drinking plenty of water, avoiding carb laden meals in the evening and trying to get exercise in whenever you can. I also try to wear a pedometer to keep track of miles and try to do 10,000 steps every day

Susan 11-23-2007 @ 8:28AM

Actually, Nancy, I think most adult women have stopped glorifying these extremely thin images but the media doesn't seem to have caught on to this. Yes, I do know a few people who will state "you can never be too thin" but this is becoming less common.
BTW, there are 2 Susans (maybe more) posting on this thread and we are posting similar comments so hello to the other Susan(s)

Beth 11-23-2007 @ 8:52AM

She is a ditz! She was on a talk show once and was talking about her two kids. She said she had a four year old and a two year old. Then went on to say that her oldest one is four and my youngest one is 2. DUH!!!
Course the host of the show was Jimmy Kimmel.

debra 11-23-2007 @ 8:55AM

Oh good grief what does it matter about her age are how she does it?she's beautiful and thin...your just jealous.get up and go walk are something.

rachel reed 11-23-2007 @ 9:01AM

Absolutely I believe her.
I struggled with my weight for years until I learned normal moderate eating and now I've weighed 112 lbs for 10 years. Since I stopped dieting, I stopped binging. Simple as that. Women are so paranoid that 'normal' eating will make them fat or that certain foods will make them fat, it's not true. People in this society are so un-used to seeing thin people, they assume it must be some extreme regiman or illness or nuerosis causing it.

Ben 11-23-2007 @ 9:05AM

Have you actually seen the cover of Shape this month? Angie Harmon does not look "stunning," freakish is more like it. My wife subscribes to Shape, and usually their covers show women who are very thin, but at least look like they're in shape and in good health. Harmon's picture is just frankly unattractive, and makes it look like she has an eating disorder.

Krista 11-23-2007 @ 9:29AM

I agree wholeheartedly with Ben: I subscribe to Shape Magazine and found this month's cover to be absolutely horrifying. I suspect that many women will respond negatively to the image presented. Angie looks like a living skeleton. If this was the result of a touch-up, the person responsible should be fired.... Krista