# Kylie Minogue hires a staff to remind her to eat **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 11, 2003, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kylie-minogue-hires-a-staff-to-remind-her-to-eat/218343 "2003-12-11T13:29:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![WILLASS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@WILLASS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WILLASS)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kylie-minogue-hires-a-staff-to-remind-her-to-eat/218343/41 "2003-12-11T19:54:30Z")
I think you should take stories like this with a grain of salt, i’d imagine that she has a chef on tour with her (as all major popstars do) and made a comment about how she forgets to eat and voila! Instant ‘stupid, prima donna’ popstar storie. I know people who have worked on TV shows that Kylie Minogue has appeared on and both people said she was extremley down to earth. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kylie-minogue-hires-a-staff-to-remind-her-to-eat/218343/42 "2003-12-11T20:06:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by manwithaplan \* > \*\*I’ve lost gallons of bodily fluid in her honour. If only I’d kept it - I could have sent it to her and it would keep her going for a year or two. \*\* Oh man, that’s wrong. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kylie-minogue-hires-a-staff-to-remind-her-to-eat/218343/43 "2003-12-11T21:34:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mlerose \* > \*\*When I’m really stressed out or intensely focused on what I’m doing, I forget to eat, too. > \ > I can see how someone could forget to eat, though I think hiring people to remind you is a bit excessive. \*\* I forget to eat sometimes too when I busy/stressed. But geez, if I _really_ had to, I think I could just get a watch with an alarm. I have a co-worker whose palm pilot beeps to remind him to go home because he gets too focussed on his work. ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kylie-minogue-hires-a-staff-to-remind-her-to-eat/218343/44 "2003-12-11T21:48:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eats\_Crayons \* > \*\*I have a co-worker whose palm pilot beeps to remind him to go home because he gets too focussed on his work. \*\* Kill him now. I set my cell phone to beep every 30 minutes to remind me to keep working. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kylie-minogue-hires-a-staff-to-remind-her-to-eat/218343/45 "2003-12-11T21:48:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by WILLASS \* > \*\*I think you should take stories like this with a grain of salt, i’d imagine that she has a chef on tour with her (as all major popstars do) and made a comment about how she forgets to eat and voila! Instant ‘stupid, prima donna’ popstar storie. I know people who have worked on TV shows that Kylie Minogue has appeared on and both people said she was extremley down to earth. \*\* This is _quite_ possible. Working in film and music I’ve seen tons of folks who go on tour or start working on a show and their general diet turns to shit. (Mine included, I shrink down to a mere whisp if I’m working on a show.) Either they are too busy and stressed out to realize they’ve only grabbed an apple off the craft services truck to last them the whole day, or they eat vast amounts of crap, like sugar donuts, like unsupervised five-year-olds. Or they surviveon coffee and cigarettes, forgetting about mealtime altogether. Stress does weird thing to one’s appetite. She may simply have hired a nutritionist/cook to make sure she eats properly when she’s working a lot, and the press got snarky about it. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kylie-minogue-hires-a-staff-to-remind-her-to-eat/218343/46 "2003-12-11T22:19:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Slacker \* > \*\*Kill him now. > \*\* I have considered it on a few occasions… ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kylie-minogue-hires-a-staff-to-remind-her-to-eat/218343/47 "2003-12-11T23:00:28Z")
[slight hijack] I have a client (developmentally disabled) in our charge that we HAVE TO remind her to drink 8-16 oz. water per hour because her body has an inactive thirst mechanism…and she has short term memory loss to boot. She has been hospitalized on occasion during the summer months for dehydration… (thankfully, not on my watch…) [/sh] ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kylie-minogue-hires-a-staff-to-remind-her-to-eat/218343/48 "2003-12-11T23:19:06Z")
What’s normal when stressed is to wolf down _extra_ food, not “forget” to eat. Junk food is particularly good for restoring normality in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. Forget to eat. Huh. ---
**Author:** ![MC\_Master\_of\_Ceremonies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@MC\_Master\_of\_Ceremonies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MC_Master_of_Ceremonies)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kylie-minogue-hires-a-staff-to-remind-her-to-eat/218343/49 "2003-12-11T23:21:51Z")
Is she still in Neighbours? ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kylie-minogue-hires-a-staff-to-remind-her-to-eat/218343/50 "2003-12-11T23:30:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LVgeogeek \* > \*\*You have to be a special kind of stupid to forget to eat! > > I mean, I have forgotten where I put my keys or my pack of smokes, but I sure as hell have never forggotten to eat. \*\* Hey, I remember that stand-up act. Who did that? ---
**Author:** ![Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boo_Boo_Foo)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kylie-minogue-hires-a-staff-to-remind-her-to-eat/218343/51 "2003-12-12T00:13:28Z")
In the interests of fairness, it has to be said that, when compared to Courtney Love, Kylie Minogue is a verititble paragon of grace, poise, and good taste. She’s been around a long time. Certainly, given the amount of time she’s been in the music game, she’s managed to avoid controversy and embarassing gaffes to a remarkable degree. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kylie-minogue-hires-a-staff-to-remind-her-to-eat/218343/52 "2003-12-12T00:30:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jackmannii \* > \*\*What’s normal when stressed is to wolf down _extra_ food, not “forget” to eat. Junk food is particularly good for restoring normality in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. > > Forget to eat. > > Huh. \*\* Not always true. When I’m working on deadline and beating my head against the computer, I may completely forget to eat. Suddenly my stomach is growling and I notice that it’s 3:30pm and I haven’t eaten anything yet. The first couple of weeks after separating from my wife, I lost 10 pounds. Not from working, but from being too stressed to eat. Nothing tasted good and I just wasn’t hungry. In that time, I had to make an effort to remember to eat. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kylie-minogue-hires-a-staff-to-remind-her-to-eat/218343/53 "2003-12-12T00:37:54Z")
Hah! I just ate a blueberry muffin!! My anecdotal evidence is more recent, and trumps your growling stomach!!! ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kylie-minogue-hires-a-staff-to-remind-her-to-eat/218343/54 "2003-12-12T00:44:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jackmannii \* > \*\*What’s normal when stressed is to wolf down _extra_ food, not “forget” to eat. Junk food is particularly good for restoring normality in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. > > Forget to eat. > \*\* While I agree that a lot of people go for “comfort food” there is a HUGE amount of documented evidence that “loss of appetite” is a common symptom of stress (depression as well). And anecdotally: on two occasions I’ve dropped to about 105 lbs because when I’m stressed I’m not hungry and may forget to eat – literally for days, I just don’t get hungry. I’d “remember” to eat when I finally get hypoglycemic and dizzy. From my understanding, overeating AND loss of appetite are both symptom of stress – it just depends on the person whether they are prone to devour or waste away. My cites? Google “loss of appetite and stress” It’s very common both ways. Like sleep and depression – some people get insomnia, other sleep excessively. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kylie-minogue-hires-a-staff-to-remind-her-to-eat/218343/55 "2003-12-12T01:01:43Z")
I forget to eat all the time. It happened yesterday: I was at work, and at about 7:30 p.m. I thought, “Why does my stomach hurt?.. Oh, yeah, I didn’t eat. I should do that.” Then I promptly forgot about it again. I finally got something in my belly at 1:30 a.m. when I left work. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kylie-minogue-hires-a-staff-to-remind-her-to-eat/218343/56 "2003-12-12T01:02:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jackmannii \* > \*\*What’s normal when stressed is to wolf down _extra_ food, not “forget” to eat. Junk food is particularly good for restoring normality in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. > > Forget to eat. > > Huh. \*\* So, you’re an expert are you, doctor? I can tell you that at a certain level of stress, I eat more. But if the stress gets really high, my appetite vanishes. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kylie-minogue-hires-a-staff-to-remind-her-to-eat/218343/57 "2003-12-12T01:23:50Z")
Who cares about stress? More seminude pictures of Kylie! ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kylie-minogue-hires-a-staff-to-remind-her-to-eat/218343/58 "2003-12-12T09:27:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lord Ashtar \* > \*\*Hey, **paulberserker** … > > Boy, are _your_ standards ever high! \*\* fuckin’ A right! she aint all that.specially wi no make up on. again, meh. ---
**Author:** ![manwithaplan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@manwithaplan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manwithaplan)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kylie-minogue-hires-a-staff-to-remind-her-to-eat/218343/59 "2003-12-12T12:44:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MC Master of Ceremonies \* > \*\*Is she still in Neighbours? \*\* No - Madge Bishop kept her well fed in those days, she’ll have to rely on my bishop now. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kylie-minogue-hires-a-staff-to-remind-her-to-eat/218343/60 "2003-12-12T13:01:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by manwithaplan \* > \*\*No - Madge Bishop kept her well fed in those days, she’ll have to rely on my bishop now. \*\* Mrs. Mangle wouldn’t even consider it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kylie-minogue-hires-a-staff-to-remind-her-to-eat/218343.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kylie-minogue-hires-a-staff-to-remind-her-to-eat/218343.md?page=4)