Is Angelina Jolie on a liquid detox diet?

UK’s Sun isn’t known for its brilliant reporting, so I’m skeptical about their latest story. They claimed a few days ago that Angelina Jolie was doing a crash diet – a “liquid detox” – to lose 21 pounds in 21 days. The Sun claims that people on the production of Salt were concerned that Angelina might bust something doing a stunt, because she’s been left so weakened by the detox:

ANGELINA JOLIE is causing concern on the set of her new film Salt with a crazy diet called liquid detox.

She aims to shed 21lb in just 21 days for her role as a CIA officer unmasked as a Russian spy. But Ange is raising eyebrows as everyone thinks she has a fantastic figure.

The diet — living on a mixture of lemon juice, cayenne pepper and maple syrup — is leaving her weak.

A source said: “She does all her own stunts but we worry she could injure herself due to the weight loss.”

How any mum can survive without at least four Mars Bars a day is beyond me.

[From The Sun]

I was going to ignore this, because just a cursory look at pictures from the set of Salt shows Angelina pretty much looking like she did last month, two months ago, et cetera. But the story’s being picked up all over the place, because everyone loves a good “Angelina is too thin, and a homewrecker” story.

If forced, I’d say that she’s probably lost a few pounds, but nothing major. And I just don’t buy that Angelina really cares what weight she is, and I really don’t think she’s likely to do some weird cayenne pepper and maple syrup diet. And The Sun forgot to do a little basic research: this sounds like it’s the (in)famous Master Cleanse diet. Isn’t it like the cabbage soup diet, only spicier?

Here’s Angelina at work on the set of Salt in NY on 3/13/09. Images thanks to Fame Pictures .

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