Chris Martin has cut back from three square meals a day to one at the advice of The Boss.
A week after his ex-wife Gwyneth Paltrow shared her controversial broth-based diet, the musician revealed his own complicated eating schedule on the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast published Monday, confessing that he doesn’t “actually have dinner anymore.” Martin explained, “I stop eating at 4, and I learned that from having lunch with Bruce Springsteen.” He added that he, “was lucky enough to go over there to lunch the day after [Coldplay] played Philadelphia last year,” noting that even before implementing Springsteen’s routine he already “was on a really strict diet anyway.” But when he sat down to eat with the legendary singer, Martin realized that the 73-year-old looked “more in shape” than him at the time. When Springsteen’s wife Patti Scialfa revealed that it’s because her husband “only eat[s] one meal a day,” Martin thought, “Well, there you go. That’s my next challenge.” He then joked that Springsteen’s one meal a day is comprised of a “flank of buffalo with a steroid sauce.”
In 2021, Springsteen spoke with Tim McGraw in an interview for Apple Music, during which he was also asked about how he stays in top physical condition. “The biggest thing is diet, diet, diet,” the “Born in the U.S.A.” musician explained. “I don’t eat too much, and I don’t eat bad food, except for every once in a while when I want to have some fun for myself. So I think anybody that’s trying to get in shape, exercise is always important of course, but diet is 90 percent of the game.”
And last week, Paltrow admitted that she is also a big fan of intermittent fasting, taking long stretches between eating and waiting until 12 p.m. to have her first meal of the day. On the March 13 episode of the Art of Being Well podcast, she said, “I have bone broth for [lunch] a lot of the days. Then for dinner I try to eat according to paleo, so lots of vegetables.” During the conversation, the Goop founder was also hooked up to an IV drip which she claims made her “feel so good.” Clips from that conversation went viral on TikTok and soon after stars like Tess Holliday and Meghan McCain accused the actor of disordered eating. But in an Instagram Story on Friday, Paltrow addressed some of those concerns, explaining that her diet choices are due to “very high levels of inflammation” caused by her battle with long COVID-19. “I have been really working to really focus on foods that aren’t inflammatory,” she explained. The former actor also noted that her eating habits are not “meant to be advice for anyone else” as they are “based on [her] medical results and extensive testing.”
Emily Kirkpatrick
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