Jada Pinkett Smith Reveals She Doesnt Eat for Pleasure

Jada Pinkett Smith has always been in excellent shape and, from what she's saying, she doesn't even work that hard to maintain her slim figure. In a new interview, she admits she hardly ever eats for pleasure.

Now promoting “Madagascar 3,” the star explains that she owes her enviable figure to the way she was raised and, in particular, the habits she picked from her grandmother.

When she was just a child, Jada confesses, she was taught that you're not to eat for pleasure but for nutrition, which means she was never in danger of eating herself to a curvier body.

“I don’t eat for pleasure,” Jada admits in an interview with Essence magazine, as cited by Us Weekly.

“I had the only West Indian grandmother that could not cook. She was an awful cook, and she taught me that you don’t eat for taste, you eat for nourishment. And I have kept that over the years, so I can eat anything that’s healthy,” the actress reveals.

Of course, she is only human after all, which means that she too has certain favorite foods she occasionally indulges in: pizza and French fries.

“I eat for my schedule so I have to eat high-protein, lots of greens and healthy carbs so that I don’t fall flat on my face,” the star adds, stressing that, with her, the focus is almost always on health.

The revelations comes in a longer series of frank admissions from Jada, as we also noted on a previous occasion.

On this year's Mother's Day, Jada and daughter Willow and mother Adrienne sat down for a first episode of a new series called The Red Table Talks.

Not only did they try to mend their relationship, but they also attempted to bridge the generational gap, while striving to set an example of how conversations between women should take place.

It's things like these that make Jada one of the most appreciated stars and women of today.

Not long ago, even husband Will Smith could not stop gushing about her, telling the press on the red carpet that she was the most amazing, “hardcore” lady he ever had the pleasure of meeting.

“I’m so lucky to have someone like Jada. She’s really an incredible woman, wife and mother,” he said, as we also informed you at the time.

“She is just absolutely hardcore, like she absolutely is unfazed by the weight and the pressures of life. She is so calm and cool and easy in any situation. She can bear anything, and I just love that about her,” Will added.

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