How to look as amazing as Pippa Middleton in a bikini?!?

[Bennettsister]

Not a goady thread just genuinely want to know how to look as toned and in such good shape. Am the same age as Pippa. Just saw some photos of her on the DM (don’t judge) and she looks absolutely fantastic. Healthy but so fit. I would not look so good in a bikini. What do I need to do?!?

Spend all day, every day working out. Have staff to look after your children and to plan and cook your meals. Don't try and live a normal life. Be married to a billionaire. Don't do an actual job.

She used to do triathlons.

It’s easier to feel motivated though when you don’t have the pressure of cooking dinner, the weekly shop, weeding the garden etc. whilst also holding down a full time job, much easier to be motivated when you have no other responsibilities.

That’s kind of an excuse though, plenty of people don’t work, and don’t look like that.

Have a perfect figure to begin with, ensuring that your parents provide exactly the right combination of genes to make you tall, slender and with long limbs. Have a wonderful, supportive childhood with financial and emotional support so you never learn that food can dull emotional pain and there is always money and time to do whatever active pursuits your child brain might possibly be interested in.

Meet and marry a very wealthy man who loves you. Have a largely troublefree pregnancy or at the very least, one where the troubles don't affect you negatively in terms of physical mobility or skin damage afterwards and certainly don't result in weight gain. Have all the help you could possibly need to ensure that you get a fantastic nights' sleep and childcare for you to resume whatever sporting activities you may wish to participate in. If cooking's not really your thing, employ somebody else to do it for you.

Add in the neverending scrutiny of photographers lurking everywhere you go so that people on the internet can gossip about how you're looking a bit podgy/out of condition/no different from them/must have had surgery/etc for a touch of continual anxiety to drive you to continue being as slim/thin and active as possible. Just in case it ever crosses your mind for a moment to spend the day in front of a huge TV with the kids and a giant pizza.

In short, be born a Middleton. That's how you look like one.

Being stinking rich helps.
Healthy diet.
Cardio, weights and pilates. And never stop.

My body is similar (49) and I eat well.

But my point is you don’t need motivation, you just need a plan. I have more muscle tone and don’t spend “all day, every day” working out. I spend 40 minutes 5 times a week. I have to get up early to do it but I set my alarm and get out of bed without making excuses to myself why I shouldn’t have to. Do I feel motivated? No! I just get up and do it like I brush my teeth and go to work. I have plenty else going on in my life too.

Access to a good cosmetic surgeon
and dermatologist.

I don’t get the swooning tbh. But she does look like she exercises a fair bit so that could be a start

I had a similar figure at that age and it was down to exercise, swimming 3 times a week around 100 lengths a time fairly fast and worked and had 2 kids at the time. Don't actually need a strict diet as you use a lot of calories. I had gym membership which included kids clubs or took the kids with me. Now 10 years on I have put on weight but still have the muscle but that was having to stop for lockdown then a year's cancer treatment. Swimming again though doubt I'll ever get back to that figure but definitely helps with muscle and shape. Now in menopause from chemo I have to watch what I eat as well but didn't especially at 40.

@OhcantthInkofaname to be honest I don't think a plastic surgeon can do much apart from subtle Botox and fillers but to maintain that body shape often comes at a price of costing your face. I've been down that route before and it's either your face or body but never both unless you over indulge in plastic surgery which she clearly hasn't as you can tell from her face you can only see her teeth and the rest is sunken in.

I saw her walking around Mayfair about 10 years ago. She is absolutely stunning. Has been active her whole life which helps maintain a great figure later in life too.

@AtomicBlondeRose But surely you're motivated by the desire to be fit and healthy, in much the same way we're motivated to brush our teeth by not wanting bad breath and painful decay.

She looks fine, but normal, I’d say.

Ok so either I need to marry a billionaire or just exercise more…at the moment with two small children I just can’t find the time to exercise. But then maybe I just need to make time if I want to look good. Feeling very out of shape at the moment.

Bullying at private school to get you in the mindset, knowing you're going to be constantly photographed and discussed on Mumsnet, knowing you'll be papped nipping to Tesco express for some french fancies.

I looked like that when I was 40, just from avoiding booze and unhealthy food and by walking fast for 30 minutes to and from work each day. Not that hard, she doesn't look very toned and probably has an hour a day spare for exercise. Also she has good teeth (£) which can really lift your appearance.

the test is whether she'll look this good at 50 or gaunt (like me)

Same here atomic. For me exercise is mostly as thrilling as brushing my teeth or eating broccoli. I don't particularly like any of it but it pays off.

She looks fabulous. I think she does loads of exercise (her legs are very muscly) and I’d hope she’s very careful about her diet. Otherwise it’s just annoying.

Nonsense. It's self discipline and a commitment to eating healthily so you don't ever become overweight and making exercise part of your life.

Sadly I've not followed the above...

I mean - yes - but doesn’t everyone want that? So that’s a goal but it certainly doesn’t function as motivation at 6am in the dark when my alarm goes off. Because getting up one time doesn’t make you fit and healthy anyway. It’s the routine that does it. Motivation is a load of bollocks and people use it as a reason not to do a lot of things but they’re all things you can do perfectly well without being motivated.

Her toned figure is not unachievable. It just takes loads of discipline to achieve. It’s not an accident.

It helps that has loads of spare time because she married a millionaire - her biggest asset is her royal sister, so despite being plainer than Kate she had her pick of ambitious men who wanted to be William’s brother in law. She married one of the wealthiest (and one of the nicest by all accounts) and can now do as she pleases.

Those photos look really staged. Why on earth did the Matthewses do them? Odd decision, Pippa and her husband have never courted the tabloid media afaik.

I think she's been doing too much weight training if I'm honest.

Don't get me wrong, she looks fab for forty and better than I did at that age, although tbf at 57 I look better than I did at 40...😂

But, I'm not a fan of looking too masculine and I think she does. I think you can look slim, fit and toned without looking so flat and straight if that makes sense?

And agree re her DH, I'm divorcing mine and he's over 60 and has a better body than that 😁. Hopefully he has a better personality than mine.

It’s exercise and healthy eating. It’s not at all impossible for most people! Harder in the winter because of the weather but even then not impossible

I don’t particularly like or enjoy it but I do like the results and the only way I manage to exercise regularly is just to get up and do it without making excuses to myself. I put my kit on, load up the video and lift my dumbbells and I say to myself “I’ll just start this and I’ll stop if I want to” but I never do.

The best thing I ever realised was that exercise works even if you don’t want to do it, even if you half ass a workout, even if you yawn through it and your mind wanders, if you’re hungry or bored, rushing to fit it in, being distracted by kids…it still works!