Celebrity Skin

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Of all the odd Hollywood slim-down secrets out there, Anne Hathaway's takes the cake. The 30-year-old starlet reveals in the latest issue of Vogue that she went on a super strict diet to channel her extremely thin character in Tom Hooper's Les Miserables adaptation. In addition to losing 10 pounds, Hathaway went vegan and was "living off of two thin squares of dried oatmeal paste per day," which helped her lose another 15 pounds in two weeks. "The idea was to look near death. Looking back on the whole experience – and I don't judge it in any way – it was definitely a little nuts." [People]