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Jodi Lipper and Cerina Vincent are no strangers to the entertainment industry or to society’s demands to be,well,hot. That’s why their book, How to Eat Like a Hot Chick is the perfect resource for women of all ages. These lovely ladies served up scoop after scoop for us as they discussed their new book.

THE STAR SCOOP:
Tell us what How to Eat Like a Hot Chick is about and why you decided to write it.

JODI LIPPER:
It is about letting go of your food issues and making food fun again for women,because so many diets out there are complicated and restrictive and scientific,and that has really confused women,and us included. We’ve spent a large portion of our lives trying every different diet. We woke up one day and realized that we were wasting our time feeling insecure,and we found a way to eat that made us feel better about our bodies and better about ourselves,and we want to share that with women everywhere.

CERINA VINCENT:
We figured this out being best friends. We figured this out together. We wrote this as a girlfriend to girlfriend sort of diet,because we really,really want women to celebrate food again and enjoy the foods they love. We really felt there was a need to redefine the term “hot chick.” A lot of women get really depressed and get low self esteem reading all these tabloid magazines,seeing all these celebrities that are airbrushed and have plastic surgery and they’re way too thin. There are a lot of women out there walking around who don’t feel hot. We used to be those girls. We really want to make every woman feel and start living like the hot chick she is.

In the book,we have a really elaborate definition for a “hot chick,” but we’re talking about a confident woman,a woman who doesn’t apologize for what size she is,or anything that she eats.

THE STAR SCOOP:
What has been the response as the book has come out?

JODI LIPPER:
It’s been amazing. The book went on sale on a Wednesday,and that Friday we had a dozen emails from women who had just picked up the book and read it overnight and were saying,“Oh my God,it’s exactly what I needed. I feel better about myself already just from reading it. It’s made me feel hotter and sexier and my sex drive has gone up and I just am ready to conquer the world now.” We’ve gotten emails from the most amazing hot chicks out there who just needed that little confidence boost,they needed the best friend to tell them that they were hot. That’s been so rewarding.

CERINA VINCENT:
Also,the book is funny! It’s uplifting and really a lot of fun… we wanted to make women laugh about food again,and we’re getting a lot of emails saying,“Thank you for just making me laugh and giving me permission to eat chocolate cake for breakfast,because I totally do that all the time and feel guilty about it and now I won’t…” We have a lot of serious information in the book,but we also don’t take ourselves too seriously. It’s about joking,and laughing and having a good time combined with useful information and women are really picking up on that.

JODI LIPPER:
Some people see our title,”How to Eat Like a Hot Chick,” and they misinterpret what it’s about. They think it’s about being objectified,and that being a hot chick means having fake boobs,a spray tan,and a six pack,and then they pick it up and they realize that it’s completely not about that. It’s about being confident and empowered,and informed as a woman to make choices from a place of confidence without falling prey to guilt or insecurity.

THE STAR SCOOP:
With the media,how do you think it affects women,young girls. What is the effect of the changing media we’re experiencing at the moment?

JODI LIPPER:
Well,that’s one reason why we wrote the book. We think that the media is confusing to women,and it makes them feel bad about themselves. When you pick up a magazine and there’s all these skinny celebrities,and you can’t help but compare yourself to that,and feel bad that you’re not one of those sizes. And even if you are,it’s one of those things where there’s no winning. If you’re a size two and you’re Jennifer Love Hewitt,and you’re gorgeous,you’re too fat all of a sudden. If you’re a size zero and you’re also gorgeous,then you’re too skinny. What if you’re neither of those sizes? But also what if you are one of those sizes? If you are a size two or four and you’re healthy and there’s women your size being attacked in the magazine for being too fat,that’s just the craziest thing in the world.

CERINA VINCENT:
There is too much information out there that is so insensitive to women and it’s sad that our young girls are having to read this and watch it. Now it’s all over the TV,and in reality shows,and we really need something out there to reach out to young women to make them feel good about themselves and tell them that they’re hot no matter what size they are. And that is true; we’re not just saying that. A hot chick is that chick that we all see that walks into a room no matter what size she is and orders a beer and eats a piece of chocolate cake all alone,and everybody’s just like,“Oh my God,she’s so cool.” We need to get back to that.

THE STAR SCOOP:
Hollywood today is pretty inescapable,and how much women are being exposed to it. Who do you think in Hollywood is a good role model,someone for young girls and also someone for adult women?

JODI LIPPER:
It’s really hard. There are plenty of women out there who are healthy and are treating themselves well. But it’s not about what they’re doing that makes them a good role model or a bad role model. It’s about the way they’re being portrayed. Someone like Jennifer Love Hewitt may very well be a good role model,but if she’s being attacked for being fat,which she isn’t,then that turns her into a negative icon all of a sudden. Even though she’s doing everything right,(maybe she is,maybe she isn’t,I have no idea) and is completely healthy,it doesn’t matter because that’s being taken away from her,and she’s being turned into a really negative image for women.

It’s the same with someone like Tyra Banks. She’s a wonderful role model because she’s so public with,“Yeah,I go up and down a size,and who cares,and I have cellulite,who cares. I feel good about myself.” She’s fantastic,but at the same time,when People Magazine runs her photos in a bathing suit all over the place,and attacks her,as hard as she’s trying to be a positive role model for women,they’re turning that against her.t her.

CERINA VINCENT:
There are things that are good,like the Dove Campaign,that’s featuring women of all shapes and sizes and normal women. We think that DOVE is fantastic for doing this,and we hope more companies catch on!

JODI LIPPER:
We want to be the positive voice for women,telling them that they can be hot chicks just by being confident with who they are.

CERINA VINCENT:
We both worked in the entertainment business. We’ve both been surrounded by celebrities and are seen out in the public eye. We really hope that we can be a help.

THE STAR SCOOP:
The awareness is increased,even if in a good way,like the Dove Campaigns. There didn’t used to be such a focus on weight and the obsession there is now. Is there any way to go back?

CERINA VINCENT:
With all the TV shows,like Celebrity Fit Club,and then the celebrities promoting Weight Watchers,it is being thrown at us any time we change the channel,any magazine we pick up. I’m not sure. I really hope we can go back to just not talking about it and just literally celebrating food and not putting such negativity around the topic of food and weight. Any time we see another add for a new diet,or a picture of a way too skinny celeb,it just fuels any other food obsession that you may already have or it creates one! We really hope to get back to letting it go.

JODI LIPPER:
The advice in our book is definitely gearing women towards a place of letting go of the obsession and the neuroses and eating what they’re hungry for and following their gut,literally,and their instincts and their cravings and finding ways to do that healthfully. It’s really an eating plan that’s based on the way people used to eat food.

THE STAR SCOOP:
What was the process,as far as writing a book like this,how did you actually go about it?

CERINA VINCENT:
Good question. It came from a variety of things. One,because Jodi and I met at the gym,and we were those girls who obsessed over calories and working out. We felt bad if we missed a day of the gym. We were like,We shouldn’t eat this,we shouldn’t eat that,we should do more cardio. We were scared,and not having enough fun. Through our friendship,we looked at each other,and we realized that we were wasting way too much time stressing and obsessing over our food and our body image and trying to be perfect,and not even realizing we were perfect just the way we were.

As soon as we took that negative energy off of food,and our body image,everything in our lives changed. Not only did we lose the last five pounds that we’ve been trying so hard to lose,but everything in our lives changed,from work,to love,to relationships with our parents. We really want to share this with the world.

JODI LIPPER:
Right after we had this light bulb moment,we decided to take a trip to New York and we were on the plane and we saw this show called “Calorie Commando.” It’s this guy who is a chef,and he’s telling women how to eat low calorie versions of the food they love. This woman went on and said “I love Mexican food,and I want to lose weight. What do I do?” And he tells her to take a flour tortilla and grate a zucchini into it and then throw on some fat free cheese and roll it all up.

And Cerina and I were like,no [laughs]. If anybody should be out there telling women how to eat what they love so and still feel confident and good about themselves and have the body that they want,it should be us. We go out,we have fun,we socialize,and feel good about the way we look. So,we started writing down ideas and writing down our jokes about food.

THE STAR SCOOP:
You talk a lot about food,but you have a healthy mindset.

JODI LIPPER:
This book is a diet book and an attitude adjustment; it’s a real uplifting kind of kick in the pants telling women to get over yourself and stop being insecure. Say you’re hot,do it,go out there,go for it,stop being scared. It’s that kind of very psychological based approach mixed with tips based on what we’ve learned from every single diet out there that we’ve tried and become experts on.

CERINA VINCENT:
We’re tried every single diet. All of them,and each one of them has a few good pieces of information,and we’ve taken all of that. We’ve taken all the good stuff and put our spin on it. Every woman needs that friend that says,shut up,you’re hot,and we’re trying to be that. We are that girlfriend to the readers out there. Stop obsessing over food; you’re already hot. That psychological uplifting message is really working,along with all our information. We’re really excited about this.

JODI LIPPER:
And sometimes I think women need to hear it from a girlfriend. They need to hear it from two girls who are saying,This is what works for us. They’re not necessarily going to buy a book that’s by Dr. Phil or someone who hasn’t been through it themselves. They need to hear it from a personal voice,so that’s where we’re coming from.

THE STAR SCOOP:
Where can people get the book?

JODI LIPPER:
The book is available everywhere. You can get it on Amazon,Borders,Target. You can go onto our website,too,www.heydayproductions.com. You can’t buy it off of our site,but it will link you to where we can get it.

THE STAR SCOOP:
Is there anything else you would like to get across to our readers?

CERINA VINCENT:
I want to say this: Being in this business,Jodi and I have been around celebrities. I’ll pick up a magazine and it will say,Jennifer Aniston eats this every single day,she has an egg,and a piece of cheese. That’s just an article in a magazine. Celebrities are people,and they do go out and have chocolate cake,and they drink beer,and the tabloids want to make these women out to be these super heroes that eat nothing but plants and protein all the time,and that’s just not true. They’re real people,and eat probably exactly the way we talk about in the book. They go out and enjoy the foods they love and then they balance it out later so they can look good in camera. Maybe not all of them,but a lot of them.

JODI LIPPER:
I want to stress the issue of balance,because it’s a big part of our book. The tagline is “chocolate cake for breakfast,and a pound of spinach for dinner,” and some people misinterpret that and think that we’re perpetuating this idea that you have to atone for your food sins,but that’s the opposite of what we’re actually saying in the book. What the book is about is having information to balance it out so that you’re not looking back on that cake,and thinking,Oh my God,I can’t believe I ate that cake,now I have to punish myself by eating a bunch of spinach. That’s not the idea. The idea is looking at the cake,being like,hell,yeah,I’m gonna eat that cake,because I know exactly what to do later,so that it won’t show up on my hips,and I’m not going to feel guilty about it,and I’m going to enjoy every single bite of it,and I’m going to move on with my day feeling great. It’s a fine line,but it’s a very big difference.