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.
Oh man, that’s wrong. 
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.
Kill him now.
I set my cell phone to beep every 30 minutes to remind me to keep working.
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.
I have considered it on a few occasions…
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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…)
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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.
Is she still in Neighbours?
Hey, I remember that stand-up act. Who did that?
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.
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.
Hah! I just ate a blueberry muffin!!
My anecdotal evidence is more recent, and trumps your growling stomach!!!
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.
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.
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.
Who cares about stress? More seminude pictures of Kylie!
fuckin’ A right!
she aint all that.specially wi no make up on. again, meh.
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.