Marisa Miller’s Bikini Body, Diet & Workout Tips in Shape Magazine (Plus Video)
June 1, 2009 in Marisa Miller by Versus
To all of you who love Marisa’s figure, great news! Marisa was kind enough to reveal her diet tips and workout tips in Shape magazine. Here’s the complete interview:
You might assume Victoria’s Secret model Marisa Miller was born beautiful. And yes, she’s the first to admit her DNA is one explanation for her fresh-faced, glowing beauty. “But a lot of people believe that because I’m curvy—and blonde—I’ve had a boob job or some other kind of plastic surgery, which isn’t true,” says the 30-year-old California native. “I’m 100 percent natural, but I have to work hard to stay in shape. There’s no magic pill. Believe me, if there was, I’d know about it.”
1. Get active, and the sooner the better. “You could say I’ve been going to the gym since before I was born,” says Marisa with a laugh. “I have a photo of my mom the day before she went into labor with me wearing her unitard and leg warmers—very eighties.” Her mother’s dedication to physical fitness, as well as both parents’ passion for surfing, have contributed to Marisa’s health mantra: “Working out is not a luxury, it’s a necessity.“
2. Never run on empty. “I usually have steel-cut oatmeal with sliced bananas in the morning, but if I want something fast, I whip up a protein shake,” says Marisa. “I mix soy or almond milk, yogurt, a banana, and a scoop of protein powder with frozen organic fruit, like mangoes or blueberries. I don’t measure anything; I just throw it all in the blender. I also carry Gnu Flavor & Fiber bars with me in case I need to eat on the run.”
3. Give in to temptation. “I prefer healthy food and try not to bring too many treats into my house. But I don’t believe in depriving myself either,” says Marisa. “When I go to the movies, I have a sugary soda, not a diet one. And if I want a burger, I’ll have a burger. I just make it a point not to eat one five days in a row.”
4. Be flexible with your workouts. “It’s not easy for me to stick to a set routine, but if I can do something almost every day, I don’t have to play catch-up before a big photo shoot,” says Marisa. “I have a home gym and I take Spinning classes at my local health club. When I can, I box with a trainer, which helps me blast calories. If I’m going on the road, I bring resistance bands with me so I can strength-train anywhere. Every bit helps.”
5. Don’t eat like your guy. “My husband, Griffin, is tall and lean, so he can eat anything he wants,” says Marisa. “Some nights he’ll bring home french fries, and I have to resist them! I decide to say ‘no’ and then make something else, like a veggie burger. It’s not always an easy choice, but it’s a healthier one.”
If you want to see another post about Marisa’s workout (with pics of her exercises), click here!
Check out a video of Marisa giving body tips on Ellen and more workout photos of Marisa after the jump!
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Well she is deff. not curvy and personally I don’t like her body, but finally a person who actually has decent and relatable things to say and finally a person who admits to eating healthy and works outt o get what she wants. Love her.
just because she doesn’t have wide hips and a butt doesn’t mean she’s curvy and i think she looks great and goes to show people that you can maintain a healthy body without going extreme with it.
exactly….waist to hip ratio which she has that looks hott….i also love how she does look small but not in a nasty sickly way, she has muscle but not where it looks manly and less womanly..i just love her and she looks amazing in the video…
I just said that she wasn’t curvy but did you mean something else with what you wrote.
Actually for such a thin girl she is quite curvy. I bet her waist/hip ratio is around 0.7.
actually her measurements are 34-23-35 so her waist to hip ratio is 0.657
Love her for admitting that she has to work out and eat healthily to get her amazing body, but i’m still not a fan. It’s her harsh facial features that put me off.
dude is that her dad in the corner of the last picture??
no wonder she’s all about fitness
Ah so beautiful and so honest.
yep, you have to work your b** off to look good. you have nothing without efforts.
Oh my lamb. I seriously didn’t know that her body was that hot until watching that video. She and Mel B inspire me so much.
this woman is gorgeous and i cant believe people say they dont like her body….her body is pure perfection, despite what any one says….those dislike her body is jealous b/c they cant achieve her level of hotness and perfection…..
sorry for offending anyone ahead of time…
everyone has a different ideal. everyones opinion of the ‘perfect body’ is different and that’s the beautiful thing. it doesn’t mean that their jealous, just like some men like tall women and some like short. i don’t like her body i prefer the kim kardashian type body but i know some people on here would hate to have kims body. bottom line, everyone has different taste
I agree! Isn’t it wonderful that there are so many looks to choose from? I love it!
Well Kayla, I’ve seen her in person and I didn’t think she looked that great at all. And no, it’s not jealousy. She doesn’t have the look that I like. I sat across from her at a restaurant and guess what? She didn’t eat, not one bite, while everyone else ate dinner and had drinks. She had water. She also has very sun damaged skin and she’s incredibly small, too small for my taste. She looks okay in pictures, but you can’t tell just how small she is.
So…please don’t make assumptions about how people feel about her and why. If you think she’s attractive, that’s great. Everyone has different tastes.
Jealousy has nothing to do with why I don’t like her body. To me, she’s just a thin woman with big breasts. My husband doesn’t like her body, so why would I want to be like her, and waste time on an emotion like jealousy when I know there’s no way on this great, green Earth that I can look like her without doing anything dangerous to my body/health, and also knowing having a body like that wouldn’t be desirable to my mate?
Don’t get me wrong, I think she’s pretty, but that’s about it. Nothing hot to me about her at all. If she stopped trying to fit into modeling standards, she would be hotter.
i don’t think she does fit into hollywood standards because if she did, she would look like tori. her body looks great and healthy and it’s good that she takes care of her body but also appreciate it.
I didn’t say Hollywood standards, I said modeling standards. Either way though, neither one is too forgiving on a woman being a bit more, and requires them to be a bit less. To me, she doesn’t look like she is naturally as small as she is, so I see nothing desirable about her looks.
she definitley doesnt look like those other models with no muscle or fat, just skin and bones..she has a small waist and relatively wide hips which to me looks very womanly. She has muscles and doesnt look like she’s about to fall out….she is obviously beautiful and i just cant see why anyone wouldnt find this woman attractive but OH WELL…..i love her
“relatively wide hips”? Uh, no, she does not have “relatively wide hips”. I don’t find her attractive because she’s thin, and the same goes for my husband. Looking at the candids of her, she is a little sinewy looking, especially in the hip bone/lower ab area; her leg muscles look odd, too concave on the inner thigh, she has a bit of loose skin in her rib area and she has visible ribs; her wrist bones and elbows are really sharp looking; and there’s just something that is off about her lower back that kinda creeps me out, it’s almost like I can see her skeletal structure under it. This woman is pretty, but her current state as a model takes away from her attractiveness. A model that I find attractive and pretty, with a more womanly body is Bar Rafaeli. And Doutzen K. They are slim, trim, and fit. Marisa is just thin with big boobs. I haven’t asked my husband’s full opinion on Marisa, but when he sees her pictures he does NOT have a good reaction to her.
i think she is naturally small. as modeling standards, yes she’s thin but not like gisele and she’s not that skinny in my opinion so i can’t see why you think she’s too thin. she’s a healthy woman who’s take cares of herself and doesn’t have to go to the extreme to be beautiful.
bigV, she’s too thin IMO because of what I mentioned: concave inner thighs; sharp wrists/elbows; loose skin on ribs AND visible ribs; visible skeletal structure in her lower back. Plus, she has an aged/lined look to her face that women in their early 30’s usually don’t have unless they do one of two things: too much time in the sun and/or too low weight/body fat for their frame. I don’t doubt that Marisa is naturally small, but I do doubt she’s supposed to be as small as she is right now.
Looking at this particular set of pictures, I can see why people would doubt she’s keeping herself too small, this is photoshopped. But in her candids(especially the yellow bikini one), I can see what they photoshopped out/in.
i don’t see what’s the whole issue with marisa’s body. skinny doesn’t always mean skin and bones and from what i’ve seen from marisa i don’t see that. i think she’s naturally skinny and i’ve seen skinny women who have her shape and big boobs. she may not have wide hips or a big ass but i do think she has a nice healthy shape going on. like i said i think she looks good the way she is.
And like I said bigV, she doesn’t look fine the way she is. I’m not saying she is skin and bones skinny, but I am saying she is skinny. I don’t think she’s naturally as skinny as she is right now, especially if she says she works really hard to maintain it, IMO you shouldn’t be working really hard to maintain a healthy body. I know I wasn’t working really hard to maintain my healthy frame when I was in shape. About an hour of exercise 5 times a week(army standards exercising, wasn’t that hard to do), working in a job that had me moving more than sitting, eating 3 full meals a day, etc…, and I maintained my nice body with out feeling I was working really hard for it.
i agree she definitely has curves but she is also one of those rare women blessed with curves but very thing bones/musclature and i think she has the ideal body too
i agree- i never used to like her body…but my bf likes girls to be extra small like her but preferably smaller in height so i think i am tricking myself into liking the way she looks lol…usually my faves were curvier women but with more shape and muscle like halle berry and jen love hewitt (in her fit days) and salma hayek etc. i have never met a man who thinks they are big but my bf thinks they are huge! lol! no wonder my view is becoming warped!just out of interest what kind of figure do you and your hubby like?
To answer what we like: Christina Hendricks, Kim K., Kelly Brook, etc…, women that display the definition of curvy. I don’t think Marisa is curvy, more like an endowed ruler.
oh yes! i forgot! kim k! now that is curvy (not fat and i hate it when ppl call her fat- even if she lost weight she would still have the same curve proportions perhaps just smaller) but no way is marissa miller curvy! I’m sorry but i just dont see how any of the VS models can be called curvy? if that is curvy then our world has officially gone mad! if their boobs and bums are considered curvy too then my gosh the nost women must be obese. And even half of them still get their boobs padded on and get bums and boobs airbrushed on- oh and a tinier waist airbrushed on too…and it still aint curvy! I feel really sorry for girls thinking that this is the epitome and definition of curvy. more like scary. thanks for answering =o)
Samba, curvy has nothing to do with size but body proportions. You can be a thin hourgalss or a thick hourglass, both would still be curvy. Unless you are skeletal or extremely obese you can be pretty much curvy at any size as long as you have the waist/hip ratio which is usually 0.65-0.75.
I wouldn’t call her a ruler, perhaps a vase which is a more stretched out hourglass but a ruler is straight up and down. Being an elongated version of an hourglass doesn’t equal ruler.
Leanna, she’s not even a stretched out version of an hourglass. When I see this woman head on, I do not see that much difference from her waist and hips. Sure, she may have a butt, but she does not have wide enough hips from front view to make her an hourglass, or even a stretched out one. She knows how to pose to give the illusion(but not as well as Giselle does) and gets airbrushed to look that way, but that’s about it.
Lola Chica, Kim’s not a fat ass, what’s your point?
I would call her a petite hourglass. She has the hip to waist ratio for it and her boobs are large. And I actually think she has the 23 inch waist. I don’t think she’s lying about her measurements, unlike many celebs.
most men i know think kim k is perfection
most men I know don’t like fat asses…… thank gosh we don’t hang with the same men, lol
Lola Chica,
Not every man is attracted to the same women and I’m so glad it works out that way! Wouldn’t it be so boring if we all looked the same?
And you would be surprised if you knew how many men really like large curvy butts.
wow you have issues if you think kim k is fat. You might want to hang around real men who like real woman Lola Chica.
I think that Kim K is disproportionated. I don’t want to offend anyone. No need to insult me either for this, I’m just expressing what I think. Period.
This is one of the true examples of models really having an actual exercise…
look at the defined abs! Not like some models who are professing how healthy they eat or how much they work out but their body is just giving away their claims. No defined abs, no muscle tone in the arms or legs department even just a bit that surely be a sign or regular exercise or workouts!
Kayla, I have been reading some of your comments and you definitely made me have a good laugh. Why is everyone who doesn’t agree with you labeled jealous? People tend to have different definitions of perfect and hotness no?
sure, whatever you say……i just know what i think is perfect(whether you think it exists or not)…i like all(most) body types, besides fat..i just think she definitley is the hottest woman….
OMG! she looks so great in that dress.. she has such a perfect body! something that we need to put on the fridge!
I’m just happy she’s from
California . Seems like
all models are from
other parts of the world.
There are beautiful
women here in the US!
you can’t be serious….. most of the prettiest female celebs are american (cindy crawford, jessica alba, nicole scherzinger, angelina jolie, etc.)
CURVY?
DEAR GOD. RETRACT YOUR STATEMENT MARISSA FOR GODS SAKE?
HER WAISTE TO HIP RATIO IS ANYTHING BUT CURVY.
ATHLETIC AND LEAN (ALBEIT SOMETIMES TOO SKINNY) IS HOW I’D DESCRIBED HER BODY.
GOOD TIPS THOUGH, COZ IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT YOU’D BE PRETTY TINY IF U HAD THE DICIPLINE TO JUST EAT WHAT SHE DOES.
I really like her because she’s beautiful but not fluffying around too much about it. I saw an interview where she admitted having a little cellulite and using some body makeup to make her skin look flawless before photoshoots….. after all, she’s only human!
However she’s not 100% natural as she claims…… her dark roots prove that she’s definitely NOT a real blonde.
yea i doubt she’s a natural blonde but i love her confidence
So gorgeous:) I love her bod. She works hard for it and is a total inspiration!
Finally someone admits that it’s not easy to have an amazing body. Work out and well balanced diet is necessary.
Her body is the most perfect I have ever seen.
It really shows she thinks being tanned is the most important thing about being good-looking. She was talking about self-tanners, but you can see she spends a lot of time outside at the sun too. She has amazing body though. Personally I just don´t get why we could not be beautiful with white skin, I actually like it more than being too tanned. Of course there´s the fact that a little tan hides a lot of imperfections.
Well, some people are not able to think for themselves. If the media shows blonde tan – oh ok, that is beautiful. And by the media, i kind of mean men’s magazines and stuff like that. Very sexiness is promoted – and not beauty. Because there is a difference between the two. And if the all of a sudden would change their standard to dark hair and pale skin, even marisa would probably dye her hair and make everything do look pale. People are really stupid when it comes to clishes. But honestly, if you – generally speaking – feel good with pale skin, wear it. I just don’t get it why something fake would be called beautiful. Fake tan, orange tan – indeed. Pulling off a white skin is so much harder!
People need to follow themselves and not always try and copy or be like other people, especially in hollywood. Standards are stupid and those that follow it or try to fit in with it are just as clueless. Set your own standards and be yourself and stop trying to follow everything a celebrity does b/c they are not gods.
Personally i like pale skin or tanned skin(not to tanned though), just whatever looks good on you.
That´s so right. I like bronze skin, I like ivory skin (very Snow-White) etc. I think Jessica Alba, Scarlett Johansson, Juliette Moore, Halle Berry and so on all have incredibly beautiful skin. Think about Liv Tyler very tanned- just not working. It is just how you are born and what suits you.
Lol I can’t believe how obssessed some people are with hip to waist measurment. Does anyone know that when some people put on weight it mainly goes to one area. Who knows, this girl might be thin but if she put on more weight it could go straight to her boobs and she still might have tha shape. My friend has Victoria Beckhams body but naturally and when she puts on wieght her boobs get bigger and so does her belly but she maintains her very small legs and butt. So not MATTER WHAT she will never be cury so what ya alll thinkm bout that.
P.S I think she looks amazing. Much better than Kim K. P.S How come people like Kim Catrall who have a very big bone structure never get picked on for being too skinny when you can see their rips, back skeletal structure and hip bones. Why cause she’s big boned and no one is jealous of her. Thats what. Those who complain about this girls figure are jealous and I say sucked it to them and their crap body lol. Kaya you rock and im sorry if I offend anyone but IM just speaking my mind.
Yup, you got me, I’m jealous of a semi-bony woman that doesn’t do anything for my husband at all, I would just LOVE to look like her and not turn my husband on anymore, but I only say I don’t like her because I know I will never look like her, and I’m just so freakin’ jealous it hurts.
exactly!!!..finally someone admits to jealousy LOL…whatever….
LOL, I didn’t make the sarcasm obvious enough I guess. You people honestly believe that the reason why someone states they don’t like her body is because they are jealous? Seriously, what is there to be jealous of? She doesn’t turn my husband on, why would I be jealous of that? There’s plenty of other women out there that hold a place in my heart for that(Kim K., Kelly Brook, Christina Hendricks, and quite a few large naturals models that we will never see on this site
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I think I said it here or somewhere else, but I will repeat it anyway
I think Marisa is pretty, but her sticking to modeling standards take away from her attractiveness. If she filled out more, she would be very lovely indeed, but right now, not so much.
i completely agree
this girl has an amazing body and those that say she’s too skinny or not their type just cant say anything nice cus they are jealous……of course no one would be jealous of a big boned girl, but a girl that has a small frame and muscles, hell yea. im jealous myself and she is just my inspiration….
I am very dissapointed. In magazines she looks amazing, but video…she is not curvy and her face is not attractive to me. I think she has to gain some weight. I know so many girls who are prittier than she is.
I always thought that Marisa Miller was extremely curvy (well, not Kim-curvy, but curvy for a model) from looking at all of her pictures and her VSFS videos, but from her Ellen interview, she has an amazing body! (I prefer skinny, to curvy, but I don’t think flat chests are attractive.) She’s very skinny, and yet she’s not flat. If I could choose one person’s body to steal right now, it would be hers.
The thing with Marisha is that she is the only one who makes Alessandra Ambrosio look big when standing next to her
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Instant- did you notice marisa’s height? I saw her from a distance at an airport a couple weeks ago and was SHOCKED at how short she was…
I’m sorry, I didn’t see this until now. You’re right, she’s not that tall. Definitely not 5′8″, which is what she is listed as. I would say 5′6″.
I meant to adress Kae there..my bad
I can’t believe that she is “100% natural”… what about chest implant work?
There are rumors that she’s had work done but honestly, I doubt it. When she’s topless, they look real.
they are real because of GOOD boob job, I guess =)
People can never see the forest thru the trees, oy! You guys this is her JOB. She gets paid to be thin. She is not a role model for an average woman. She gets paid to eat oatmeal and spinach and sit in restaurants and starve while everyone eats. You have to be “too small” to work in her business. Modeling isn’t about “pretty”, it’s about bone structure, thin frame, personality and contacts. As for her boobs, they’re real. She was in that “natural” magazine where they have real boobs and they make sure you have no implants for that magazine. At least she is being helpful and putting her natural, hard working approach out there for the public, essentially saying, “Hey, I work hard for this”, good for her!
BTW your guy is trying to make you feel better. He wants her, trust me.