Beyonce Headlines Vogue’s Shape Issue

Beyonce turns our heads once again- looking sleek and strong on the cover of Vogue’s annual Shape Issue. This woman is one unstoppable force with incredible energy! Want proof? Here’s a day in her life:

 She got up at the crack of dawn…ate a tiny portion of Honey Nut Cheerios, ran six miles, and then worked out with her trainer, who had her in every imaginable kind of squat to get her ready to fit into her no doubt skintight Thierry Mugler-designed tour costumes. Then she went to a dance rehearsal for a couple of hours before showing up here. Now she will sit for a meeting with her management, scarf down several bites of a salad with jalapeños and avocado (“so that it tastes like something that’s bad for you”), do this interview, and then rejoin the dance rehearsal until late into the night. “And then I have to go home and be a wife!” she says, laughing.

Although she works to keep her body at a healthy and fit, Beyonce’s acting career has taken her weight through some noticeable ups and downs. She gained twenty pounds for Cadillac Records and did a lemonade fast for thirteen days to lose weight for Dreamgirls. Talk about serious commitment!

Gaining weight, she says, was more fun. “I ate a lot of butter-pecan ice cream,” she admits. “But it’s easy for me to gain weight. I’m not a naturally stick-thin girl. I’m not heavy, but I’m not skinny, either.”

She’s a role model for young girls in terms of body image, attitude, and drive to succeed and she takes her job seriously.

“The older I get, the more I think about the amount of influence I have on these young girls, and it’s scary sometimes. But I also understand how lucky I am to have that.”

With a powerful, yet graceful woman like Beyonce setting the example, we could all learn a thing or two!