The 14 Weirdest Things Celebrities Eat or Refuse to Eat
How Michael Buble eats his corn on the cob is between him and God. And now us. And you.
Angelina Jolie Knows Her Way Around a Cockroach
She refers to them as a “meaty, high-protein snack food" that has a "very pointy bit on their stomach you just can’t eat. You have to kind of pop that off.”
Early Computer Science Was Fueled by Dry Tang
Bill Gates and his colleagues in the ‘70s would pull all-nighters by occasionally grabbing literal fistfuls of Tang.
Jessica Biel Pulled a Kramer
She once posted (and then deleted) an Instagram missive about eating chicken apple sausage and espresso while she showered.
Renee Zellweger Went Full Eating Disorder on Main
She once described eating ice cubes throughout the day to fill in the gaps of her meager diet: “As long as I get that ‘constant feed’ feeling, it’s semi-tolerable.”
Andy Warhol Ate Like a Child
He once had his bags searched at customs, and the agents found them full of candy and cookies. He said, “I’m only kidding myself when I go through the motions of cooking protein. All I ever really want is sugar.”
Nic Cage Won’t Eat Pork Because of the Ways Pigs Pork
He’ll only eat stuff that has sex in a way he finds alluring: “I think fish are very dignified with sex. So are birds. But pigs, not so much.”
Michael Buble Deepthroats His Corn
A 2016 photo of Buble eating corn on the cob like it was a banana went viral, forcing him to respond on Twitter: “What I do with my Cobb is nobody’s business”
Mark Zuckerberg Was So Bad at Hunting, He Made Himself Vegan
Zuckerberg wanted to experience more gratitude or oneness with the Earth or whatever, so he picked up a new hobby in 2011: “This year I’ve basically become a vegetarian since the only meat I’m eating is from animals I’ve killed myself.”
Vladimir Nabokov Has Opinions on Butterflies
The author once told Sports Illustrated that he would sometimes eat the butterflies he kept: “I didn’t see any difference between a monarch and a viceroy. The taste of both was vile. They tasted like almonds and perhaps a green cheese combination.”
Shailene Woodley’s Dietician Is a Cab Driver
She picked up the habit of eating clay from a taxi driver, and has a whole misinformation monologue teed up for anyone who makes the mistake of asking her about it: “I’ve discovered that clay is great for you because your body doesn’t absorb it, and it apparently provides a negative charge, so it bonds to negative isotopes. And, this is crazy: It also helps clean heavy metals out of your body.”
Hugh Hefner Always Brought a Bagged Lunch
He’d take his models out to nice restaurants, but would only eat meals prepared by his personal chef: “(The Playboy models) pick from the menu, but I have lamb chops and a baked potato sent in from the mansion, so (my meal) is set.”
Novak Djokovic’s Good Luck Meal
He keeps a strict gluten-free, dairy-free, caffeine-free and sugar-free diet, and also one time ate a bunch of grass after a big win in 2011: “I felt like an animal. I wanted to see how it tastes. It tastes good.”
Steve Jobs Thought He’d Found a Bathing Loophole
He’d eat the same fruit or vegetable for weeks on end, and believed that binging nothing but apples or carrots reduced his body odor to the extent that he’d only need a shower once a week. This is six-year-old bathtime logic.
Henry Ford Was A Certified Soyboy
When you think of your body like it’s a car, you’re not going to be very picky about what your fuel tastes like. He’d grab fistfuls of weeds from his backyard and chuck them on a sandwich, and once commissioned a multi-course, all-soybean dinner for the Chicago Century of Progress Expo.
