Emma Stone Talks Hollywood Diets In Vanity Fair

“The Help” actress Emma Stone covers the August issue of Vanity Cover. In the issue Emma Stone talks how she manages the pressure of staying thin in Hollywood, getting use to the paparazzi and getting use to rejection.

On the Hollywood dieting trend:
“I’m definitely more conscious of it as I’ve gotten older,” she says that she has not succumbed to extreme celebrity fad diets. “That diet, have you seen it?” Stone asks of the popular trainer to the stars Tracy Anderson’s recommended diet. “It’s like: Eat this diet, which is a palm-size piece of chicken and some beans, and work out two hours a day for the rest of your life.”

On the paparazzi:
“Sometimes people recognize me, but they’re more like, ‘Oh, hey!'” She adds of paparazzi, “He stands up while I’m walking to my car and is like, ‘Hey, Emma! Listen, I’m going to delete these pics. Here’s my card. ‘If you ever go to the beach with your friends or walk out of your house in your pajamas, call me.’” Stone refused his card. “He’s like, ‘But I’m deleting these pictures, see?’ … These guys try to strike up a deal with you so you feel like they’re your friend. I didn’t even know that was a thing–that people would call them.”

On handling rejection after “Heroes” role went to Hayden Panettiere:
“I could hear that, in the other room, a girl had just gone in and they were saying, ‘You are our pick … On a scale of 1 to 10 you’re an 11′. I went home and just had this meltdown.”

Watch behind the scenes looks of Emma Stone in St. Barth’s with famed photographer Patrick Demarchelier:

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