13 Celebrities Who Aren’t Taking Home the Oscar for Hygiene
Jake Gyllenhaal doesn’t like to shower because “we naturally clean ourselves.” Yeah bud, that’s called a shower.
Brad Pitt
Fatherhood drastically lowered his hygiene standards: “All you’ve got to do is just take (baby wipes), a couple quick wipes under the pits. I’m getting (peed) on all day. I don’t have time to take a shower.”
Jessica Simpson
She seems to think she can polish her pearly whites with mouthwash and cashmere: “I don’t brush my teeth. No, really. I just use Listerine, and sometimes I’ll use my sweater. No, I do brush every now and again, but my teeth are extremely powerful.”
Lady Gaga
She’s admitted to making a weird mess in the green room: “I do quite often pee in the dressing room in the trash can. It would have been a very interesting photo for you today because I had that big pink bow for the performance, so I was sort of over the trash bin with the big pink bow.”
Jake Gyllenhaal
He brushes his teeth because Elvis Costello told him to, but anything else is a waste of time: “More and more I find bathing to be less necessary, at times. I do believe, because Elvis Costello is wonderful, that good manners and bad breath get you nowhere. So I do that. But I do also think that there’s a whole world of not bathing that is also really helpful for skin maintenance, and we naturally clean ourselves.”
Kate Hudson
She addressed an “old urban legend” that she forced Matthew McConaughey to wear deodorant while filming Fool's Gold. The truth is that he “doesn’t wear deodorant. And by the way, I don’t either. My thing was I could smell him from a mile — because we were so close. We’re au naturals.”
Matthew McConaughey
He has indeed confirmed the deodorant thing — “I haven’t worn deodorant in 20 years” — and copped to making his own lotions and “concoctions.”
Mila Kunis
Mila and Ashton Kutcher raised some gremlins — “I wasn’t the parent that bathed my newborns, ever. We’re like, ‘Oof, something smells’” — because she herself is a bit of a gremlin: “I don’t wash my body with soap every day. But I wash pits and tits and holes and soles.”
Tom Ford
He says Americans are missing out on some fantastic stenches: “I actually love the way that human beings smell. And I love the way my dog’s ears smell. My smell is a little sweat, a little dog. I think a lot of us have gotten so weird about it, especially Americans. Americans love to, like, wash away all trace of human smell. I like human smell. It’s what makes us attracted to each other. I mean, I’m not attracted to some laundry that I take out after I’ve put Febreze in it. I don’t like clean. I don’t like the smell of soap.”
Benny Blanco
He says people these days shower altogether too often: “I also don’t believe in always shampooing your hair or conditioning your hair. Some people I know shower two to three times a day, but I feel like the oils on your skin don’t have time to rejuvenate and get juicy.” He likes to aim to smell like “tobacco, but also like cotton candy.”
Jenna Fischer
Her thoughts on handwashing have been very divisive on her podcast: “I feel like it's really clear now that I don’t always wash my hands after I pee at home. I feel like maybe we were going to bond over something that now we’re not bonding over.”
Patrick Mahomes
He reuses the underwear his wife got him one time: “I have to wear them. At the same time, I threw them on that first season, we had a pretty good season that season. As long as we're winning, I’ll keep the superstition going.”
Adrienne Bailon-Houghton
She painted a graphic picture when asked if she washes her hands: “Nah. Not at home! What did I touch? It’s my house! The toilet paper touches my behind. I don’t touch my behind! Not this skin. And I’m not always touching my behind. Sometimes, I just go number one.”
Chelsea Handler
She subscribes to the George Costanza philosophy of hygiene: “Why do my legs need to be washed? They’re fucking covered all day. It’s not like my legs are going out without me. When I take a shower, all the soap from my shower comes down. It’s not like my legs are out there gardening all day without me.”
