Fit role models - who is there?

I've been trying to think of fit, healthy female role models in the public eye and can only really come up with J-Lo.  What I'm thinking about would be a woman who looks as if she works out and eats healthily most of the time, but who also has a life.  That is, she doesn't spend her entire life eating egg whites and lettuce.

Can anyone else suggest healthy female role models? Quite often when I want to get better at something, I find it useful to 'channel' a role model.  So, when faced with a plateful of cake, I might think to myself - "what would J-Lo do?"  The answer is probably decline gracefully, almost without looking at it. Would love to find some motivational pictures to go with the thought too.

What about Michelle Obama? She seems very fit and healthy.

Original Post by cardioqueen1227:

What about Michelle Obama? She seems very fit and healthy.

  love her.

Of course - should have thought of that.  I read about her & B in their early days in politics - he promised that if he didn't win some (smaller) election, he would quit politics.  He didn't, but he hadn't been helping out with their kids as he could have done, so she accepted his decision and made her own to go to the gym at 5am every day, leaving him to sort out their children.  Gym time was 'her' time - and a way of avoiding behaving like a martyr, that some people could have done.

Any others?

Monica Bellucci!

To be honest, I don't know that much about her, but she is the epitome of female sensuality and radiance, in my opinion!   She is so incredibly lovely, and she has a fabulous, curvy figure.  She's a woman, not a twig, and she owns it!

Wow! Had never heard of Monia Bellucci before and have just googled her - Wonderful body! Very curvaceous!  I think I'll channel her, as I have more of an hourglass figure (under the layers of padding at thet moment) than a Michelle Obama figure. She also looks fantastically sensuous.

I vote for Eva Mendes.  She is gorgeous, looks fit and healthy (just look at her glowing skin!) and isn't a waif.

i love catherine zeta jones body!

so feminine!

this is so hard .... you just don't know what goes on indoors, and what they do to keep their figures. but a really healthy looking lady i love is Liv Tyler.

but again, who knows what she really eats of exercise she does.

Hmm,

Good thread!

I'm an outdoorsie gal, so I like to look towards down to earth, girl next door types who look fit, healthy and happy, that's where I draw inspiration from - e.g.  mountain biking chick here is my ideal, I want arms like her please! lol

But if we're talking fantasy celebrity idols...

I also second the Monica Belucci vote and yowsers, you know, my boyfriend better watch out, she might just turn me . . .

Also, Shakira looks hot in the She wolf video...

But with people in the public eye, I'm with monkfish998 - who knows what they go through behind closed doors, just look at Posh Spice urgh, she'd probably fit in one of my trouser legs. No thanks.

is kinda my aim

What about Beyonce? She has one amazing body..

And she can mooooove :)