Recently, Miranda Kerr began a healthy lifestyle video series, The Body Beautiful with Net-A-Porter. In the first episode, the model and actress reveals her favorite morning smoothie, lifting up each of the ingredients -- things like Maca powder, chia seeds and raw cacao powder -- and prattling off nutritional information about each.
It seems that Kerr is entering, as HuffPost Style called it, "the GOOP phase of her career."
But picking up the mantle of health and wellness is nothing new for celebrities. For better or worse, many actresses, models and even a director or two, have dedicated themselves to teaching the public about a healthy lifestyle.
Read on for a few Kerr will be joining and tell us in the comments: Is this the wave of the future? How many more celebs do you think will enter the health space?
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Miranda Kerr
The Aussie model has a new series on Net-A-Porter, sharing her top fitness and nutrition tips and stating that health and nutrition "play a vital role" in her life.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth's gateway medium was the 2011 cookbook, My Father's Daughter. Since then, the actress has churned out daily nutrition and healthy living tips on her website, GOOP, as well as another healthy cookbook, It's All Good. Paltrow is also "Method" fitness guru <a href="http://la.racked.com/archives/2013/04/05/private_snaps_from_tracy_andersons_starry_brentwood_opening.php" target="_blank">Tracy Anderson's business partner</a>.
David Lynch
At this point, it is entirely possible that Lynch is as famous for his work <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/david-lynch-transcendental-meditation.html?pagewanted=all" target="_blank">touting the wellness benefits</a> of transcendental meditation as he is for his movies.
Suzanne Somers
The TV actress, of Three's Company fame, is the author of four diet books and a few controversial books about cancer and anti-aging. She is also the most recognizable spokesperson for the Thighmaster, an outmoded home fitness device that promised to tighten upper leg muscles. Her 2006 book Ageless: The Naked Truth About Bioidentical Hormones was <a href="http://www.womansday.com/health-fitness/controversial-celebrity-health-advice-103482" target="_blank">largely discredited</a> by medical authorities, and provided a <a href="http://www.womansday.com/health-fitness/controversial-celebrity-health-advice-103482" target="_blank">good example of bad celebrity advice</a>. Of 2009's Knockout: Interviews With Doctors Who Are Curing Cancer and How To Prevent Getting It in the First Place, <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2009/12/doc_hollywood.single.html" target="_blank">Rahul Parikh wrote sarcastically</a> in Slate: <blockquote>Cancer has a cure. That breakthrough medical news is not the result of grueling medical research published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Instead, it is brought to us via fading actress-cum-Thighmaster queen-cum-New Age health guru Suzanne Somers.</blockquote>
Jane Fonda
The O.G. celebrity-cum-wellness guru, Fonda is actually considered <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/18/50-women-in-health_n_2879370.html#slide=2232255" target="_blank">largely responsible</a> for the exercise video industry. And for people of a certain age, the award-winning actress' primary role has been that of steel-thighed fitness guru.
Alison Sweeney
A former teen actress (Sweet Valley High, anyone?) and soap star, Sweeney got into the diet guru game after landing the role of host on The Biggest Loser. Since that time, the actress has written <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Mommy-Diet-Alison-Sweeney/dp/B004TE7AD8" target="_blank">The Mommy Diet</a> and become a big advocate for pet health.
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