43-year-old Estée Lauder beauty, Elizabeth Hurley shared with Red Magazine that she is planning to develop her own range of low-fat organic food products and an accompanying cook book.
In the July edition, Hurley shares, “I’ve just made an arrangement with a very good organic food producer and we’re going to do some products together.” The products will include ingredients sourced from her 400-acre farm in Gloucestershire. The food and receipes will be all but fat free.
Some will be store cupboard essentials, she explained, but went on: “What I really, really want to do is pre-packaged meals. Fabulous versions that are delicious, healthy, not too expensive and very low in fat. So, that’s my big dream, because there’s a massive hole in the market for that.”
The cookery book will contain recipes she has “adapted over the years” to all but remove the fat content, she added.
Hurley tells People Magazine that she believes her low-fat organic products may help reduce the risk of breast cancer.
“I think we know now that many issues with women’s health can be linked back to their diet,” she says. “We’ve been saying for a long time that many breast cancer specialists recommend sticking to as low-fat a diet as possible, which all has to do with how estrogen is stored in the body.”
She also emphasized the benefits of low-fat milk and other organic products.
“For a long time we’ve been telling women to try and follow a low-fat diet and try and switch from a high-fat milk to a zero-fat milk. Now we genuinely believe if any of even the zero fat milk is crammed full of antibiotics and hormones it can be very detrimental to your health.”
Looking good demands a healthy lifestyle, she explained. “When you’re under 30 and, arguably, even when you’re under 35, many people can eat a lot, drink a lot, go out late and kind of look pretty fab when they get up. But now, forget it. You have to eat less, go to bed early, have almost no alcohol, just to look halfway decent. You either do it or give in and, obviously, we’re still fighting on the beaches.”
The model and actress has left her London home for good to escape the attentions of the paparazzi, which left her “semi-agoraphobic”. She now resides full-time in Barnsley, near Cirencester, with Arun Nayar, her Indian-born husband, and Damian, her six-year-old son by US film producer Steve Bing.
“I go to Waitrose four times a week. No-one stares or says anything. I’m completely ignored and it couldn’t be nicer,” she said.
Hurley raises livestock on her farm, including 15 calves, 34 piglets and 50 lambs, and is currently hand-rearing one of the piglets. “I have to swaddle it, like a baby, lie it backwards and feed it with a bottle. It’s absolutely divine.”
Despite her attachment to the animals, she has no qualms about turning them into tomorrow’s dinner. “I think, if you were being cruel to animals, then the thought of eating them would be horrific. But our animals have the most fantastic, lovely lives farm animals could possibly have. I feel fine about it.”
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