What celebrities give you motivation?

I would have to say mine include:

Stacey Keibler

Gwen Stefani

Nicole Scherzinger 

Definitely Nicole Scherzinger as well!

Kirsty Ally......she is a natural beauty, and her weight loss gives me hope. She had a real battle on her hands. I only have to lose 40, and she lost 75 already. Give me courage

Queen Latifa, hands down! I just wish I had her attitude when I was her age.  Oh well, better late than never.

Cameron Diaz. She gets her excersize from surfing, which I think is great. She's tall like me, and has a great muscular body.

My celebrity idol is Jenna Dewan (from step up) she is such a good dancer and is so pretty! 

Kirsty Ally was such an annoying actress, but I really respect her for losing all that weight and having a great sense of humor about it.  

Jessica Biel, Jennifer Anniston, Scarlet Johanson, Kirsten Dunst, Gwen Stefani, Jessica Alba!

Right on songchild, I love Queen Latifah, she is just so "real". And she always has those hunks as her love interest in her movies. Very fun to watch.

Brooke Shields is my idol because of the things I can relate to about her... her height and age. Plus she's not stick thin and hasn't had a face lift as far as I can tell.

Here's who I would love to look like: Mila Jovavich (or however you spell it), Jessica Beil, and Giselle the Victoria's Secret model. It's mostly about their faces and hair though (not that I would turn down having their body-build).

Oh! And Salma Hyack, curvy and sexy, an attainable body.

Gwen stefani is a good one.  Unlike other celebs, she's honest about the fact that she has to watch her diet and exercise regularly to keep in such amazing shape.  I also remember, right after no doubt first started getting super famous that she started gaining there for a while - I guess that just makes her more real seeming to me. 

It's hard to look at some of the "starlets" you see in all the mags for motivation though - I'm sure if I did cocaine every day I would be 90 lbs. too!

um britney spears has supposedly been bulimic almost all her career. she is disgusting. she always looks bloated and yucky. youd think with all that money she wouldnt be such a lard. ewww

Halle Berry - I think she is the most attractive celebrity ever.

Renee Zellweger - but just because everyone says I look like her. :-)

Jennifer Lopez

yeah halle berry is one of mine too. she always looks good. its almost annoying, but then its not since its halle berry and she seems so nice.

I like the body of Ciara.

She's so hot.

I like jessica beil, jessica alba, and a few others...

I agree that Gwen Stefani has a great body, but she has admitted in interviews that she has basically had to starve herself and work out relentlessly to get that body.  She admits that it is not her "natural" body and that she has had to eat mostly salads to get that way.  I'm just pointing this out to show that celebs are people too....  I think that gives the rest of us hope!

Salma Hayek and Kate Winslet definetly!  And Jessica Biel.......

beyonce :) she's toned without being a stick.

I looked at the pictures of the first three girls on the original post and they all look like stick figures. I'm shocked that anybody would really want to look like them. They look like they're going to break. Myself, I would be embarrassed if I looked like that but if you like it you like it. What can I say ... I definitely wouldn't call them "amazing looking," amazingly paintful maybe. I can't believe that's the "ideal." Oh well, I guess that just goes to show you what powerful control the media truly has on people. Wow!

I forgot about Scarlet Johanson! She's so beautiful!

Then alayney I'd like to see pictures of people who inspire YOU.

They inspire ME. I've always had a lean, tall frame. You may not relate because maybe you have a different body type. I found what was closest to MINE.

*gets off soapbox*

energygirl- scarlett jo is amazing. :)