1950s Old HOLLYWOOD Diet Secrets: Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, AND More!

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[@MelissaLigon]

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[@violetfaire]

I am not going to give away my age but I grew up in the 60's and 70's. Breakfast was usually eggs and toast or cereal with a side of fruit. lunch was usually a sandwich a salad or soup. Dinner was always a meat, starch and salad. Glasses of milk was with every meal. No coffee till we were older of course and it was made in a percolator and tasted really good. Dessert in our house was not every day. Sweets were considered only treats once in a while. Soda was not allowed in the house and the only drinks besides milk was ice water and juice. Going out to eat was only for special times or the weekends. We walked alot and there were rarely any obese young people. These diets remind me of growing up. That was a lot of fun to listen to.

[@MarabellaMuncey]

Thank you for sharing.

[@hollieshorts9885]

I love this. I own a gym and write diets for people. I’d like to copy this and use it as reference to how we should live, if you don’t mind.

[@violetfaire]

@@hollieshorts9885 I don't mind. I don't know if how we lived was the best way but it worked for us.

[@rebeccaf.5119]

I grew up in the 70s and remember all this as well. Sweets were rare and we never snacked between meals!

[@user-vx2tu3lb9k]

Worth noting that a sandwich made at home with typical bread, a slice of cheese, and lunch meat is very different from a huge sandwich bought at a restaurant that is grilled in butter and drowned in mayo and cheese! Same with salads. Salads from restaurants have fried chicken strips, tons of dressing, and croutons and cheese. The size of servings are much much bigger now!

[@Arginne]

Ive seen the pin up girls and women back then. Curvaceous was in style in the 50s. yes women spend less time on household chores and cooking, because society now expects women to cook,clean, take care of children and work a full time job all while simultaneously having a nice body. Its virtually impossible standards and many women are burned out. In the 50s most women could stay at home.

[@Laurajaneatelier]

That’s so true!

[@lesliecas2695]

My mother gifted me her wine and cocktail glasses that she used when entertaining during the 1950s and 60s and they are teeny tiny compared to today's glasses. Everything is oversized now.

[@tallisinwonderland4724]

That’s so true and I don’t think people drank quite so much, it was more about being social rather than getting hammered possibly

[@Laurajaneatelier]

That’s so interesting!

[@georgiaclapham9204]

@@tallisinwonderland4724 I don't know, watch old movies from that era, plenty of people getting hammered!

[@ghostlyimageoffear6210]

@@tallisinwonderland4724 I recently opened coffee cups and saucers from the late 80's and was impressed that they were smaller than today's coffee mugs.

[@luckyrabbitnumber]

@@georgiaclapham9204 Lol 😅 true

[@teresanash-mcneil3443]

If you look at their menu’s meat portions were approximately 2oz, and 2 oz of butter and cheese were a weeks ration per portion also 4oz sugar per person per week. My mother used to see the vegetables were the meal and the tiny bit of protein was the embellishments . No eating out, no take aways, everything made from scratch.

[@NathanVierke]

My grandma grew up on a small farm in the 40’s and 50’s and she told me she had never heard of the word “lunch” back then. she told me they had breakfast, dinner was their “lunch” and that supper was the term for present day dinner. Kinda interesting!

[@valfletcher9285]

I love vintage cook books and use them today because I find them helpful with inflation we all face at this time! My mother and my aunt's (her sisters) were all slim and polished ... I grew up thinking they were movie stars. I LOVED this VIDEO! Thank you it is lovely.

[@baylorsailor]

I live very similar to the 1950s housewife. I clean throughout the day, cook all the meals (much from scratch), and keep a large garden every summer. 😄

[@MadeUpLikeADoll]

I have to add Liz enjoyed herself!! 😍 Girlfriend ate, okay! I like both Grace and Liz dietary regimen. I get the overall theme towards food, activity level, and doing for yourself. Water 1st, organic fruits & vegetables most, lean protein’s, treat yourself in moderation, reduce the process, and move the body. This was enjoyable. Thank you

[@Laurajaneatelier]

Thanks for watching

[@IllumiNatetheOracle]

Love this channel. Also love that Eartha Kitt was included! She remained a beauty her whole long life.

[@Laurajaneatelier]

Thank you!

[@qytj1182]

Love these in depth series you do on vintage eating and beauty! The diets seem a lot healthier and attainable those days as there wasnt as much junk food and alcohol encouragement. Would love to hear more on Grace Kelly she was one of my faves during this period

[@brandi1719]

My mom told me meat portions were small because meat was an expensive food item. Sundays were usually the day to have your roasts. My grandmother would try to stretch her meat for several days.

[@NoodlesEaton]

We had roast beef on Sundays too! Sometimes fried chicken but mostly roast beef or pot roast.

[@richiethev4623]

Better then organic label milk look for a store that sells glass bottles of milk that come straight from the farm because those milk taste so so so much better then your average label organic milk...

[@Laurajaneatelier]

Oh yes love the glass bottles

[@georgiaclapham9204]

Actually I think that most people in the 50s had sliced white bread, like wonder bread, at least in the US. It was only in the 70s that "health food" came in with brown bread etc. I remember my Dad calling wheat germ "bird food"! But people were more active and had smaller portions I think. Ice cream was more of a treat and didn't come in huge containers! And there were far fewer fast food places for sure. People tended to eat at home and snack less. I know my mom really discouraged eating between meals! Also girdles and waist cinchers were a thing until the late 70s!

[@WildChildMcCloud]

Ice cream came in half gallon size back then. Bigger than nowadays.

[@melindaroop1346]

Oh yeah. A lot of women were wearing girdles and waist cinchers to get those small waists, even though they definitely were a lot thinner

[@sarahstroud6021]

I’m a dialysis nurse and where I live the majority of my patients are on dialysis due to high blood pressure or diabetes or both. Unfortunately the population is primarily African American. I don’t say this in a racist way. That population is just more affected by these illnesses.

[@Nia-aliah]

It’s not racist at all! When I was in highschool at gym, we read a paper that black people suffer the most through this. It’s honestly disappointing & I tell people I know to try health stores even though its expensive. It’s worth eating healthy than spending so much of your life with medications & treatments

[@valfletcher9285]

This is true and also Native Americans. Many things are genetic. My family has their health issues I have taken note of them after watching the 3 generations older than me.

[@Nia-aliah]

@@valfletcher9285 this is why its so important for poc to watch what they eat. My granddad was a very active 60 year old guy. He biked ride around the lake, cooked at home, and everything but got cancer because it can be genetic. It’s sad

[@Rosewitch-lt9rw]

If you actually look at most traditional diets in Sub-Sahara Africa their diets are incredibly high in legumes and vegetables, especially root vegetables. They have far lower rates of colon cancer compared to African American population in general. I do wonder if genetics and evolution play a role because that's incredibly different from the SAD. Their ancestors ate a very, very different diet than they do in the US today. I hope that doesn't come across as racist. I just found it interesting that when non-Western populations exchange their traditional diets for modern Western diets they tend to immediately have health problems that didn't exist at all in their cultures at all. Especially, compared to others that stick to traditional ones that their ancestors ate for thousands of years.

[@Bianca-nj4nv]

I enjoyed this video, Eating in portions when hungry is the most important because it gives your body the exact amounts it needs, nowadays portion sizes are much much larger, when out dining in restaurants, and more expensive especially on the body. Eating a diet of variety and what you prefer just makes sense to me and Marilyn Monroe with her carrots 🥕

[@AMarie-wp4wk]

I love this, maybe you could do more diets of each decade? I would find that very interesting but don’t know how many others would

[@Laurajaneatelier]

Thank you! Yes I’m going to do every decade

[@joyceadams5765]

Water is key also to cleaning the system out. Excellent video

[@angelajones201]

The old school beauty ways are so interesting.

[@Jennifer_J_D]

The late 40s they started to feed hormones to livestock, process foods came into play and sugar has always been the killer

[@SA-xi1cr]

Love hearing about how people lived back then! Thanks Laura!

[@Laurajaneatelier]

Thank you

[@Lolabelle59]

Appreciate all the research and production values of your videos. Always enjoy them and always learn such interesting things about the past. Your videos about 50s Housewives bring back fond memores of my Mom. Thank you!

[@Yabadabadoo16]

Also, we have alot of the same foods that they had and we eat them regularly. But everything now has added salt and sugars, preservatives and chemicals!

[@tallisinwonderland4724]

I’m going on the Liz Taylor diet 🤣🤣 gotta keep them curves up

[@lacreashiabulls]

Keep in mind this is the 1950s and the 1950s it was normal to be wearing shapewear every day all day

[@lumiere7216]

The one thing I wanted to mention is that people were alot more physically active. People danced, kids ran around, played tag outside, etc...

[@lacreashiabulls]

@@lumiere7216 Yep! A lot of homes didn't get there first television until the '70s or late 60s

[@MadPuddings]

I love your old hollywood diet videos! Or vintage diets! Do more pleaseeee 🙏

[@Kimiyainreallife]

I really adore your videos! They’re very comforting and calming 🥰

[@lee3171]

The food today is addictive, it's basically a drug.

[@shartman2150]

This was very interesting. I've bought a lot of vintage cookbooks at estate sales and while there was a lot of new processed foods available back then people cooked real food for the most part. A lot of the recipes have become family favorites. The basic American diet is so bad now and hard to resist because it's everywhere! I never realized that Liz Taylor gained that much weight. I thought it was just tabloid rumors in the 80's. Edited to add- I love the pink appliances at about the 7:40 mark. So cute!

[@yfa6244]

I wish I could have bought that pink gas stove I saw in 1979. Obviously I never forgot that stove! I was broke. Now Im too old to care...

[@melindaroop1346]

I love vintage cookbooks. I have a Better Homes and Gardens one from the late 40s.

[@pamela3213]

Great Video, one that took me back to my mother's & grandmother's healthy lifestyle. I was born in the 60's & informative yrs of the 70's. My parents married in 1954 & she Always had the tiniest waist; I believe she had a 21" waist when married & maintained very well. She didn't care for sweets or milk & I incorporated that as well. We had very healthy meals, never had soft drinks except for many vacations & when we would dine out. My parents especially influenced heavily on etiquette & manners. I instilled this practice with my children & I feel our society has overlooked this (I'm southern) & have developed misophonia; feel like an etiquette coach now 😊 oh the wonderful memories 🥰 Thank you for doing your homework ❤

[@jenniferdignan8507]

There was definitely less sugar in everything back then, even the packaged food available at the time.

[@tammyhiggins1013]

This was so interesting! I always enjoy your content!

[@oldhollywood_fanatic]

I really love their diets and the foods they eat, it gives inspirational like they're literally an ICON🥰❤️

[@AfroDysiaque]

One of the most super interesting 30 minutes I spent on a KZbin video 🙌🏾

[@d1a1l1e]

This is such a wonderful video! Love it so much

[@Laurajaneatelier]

So happy you like it

[@lilataylor5872]

Hi Laura I love your channel! Your eye make up looks fantastic in this video, I looked for a tutorial that would include this amazing Look but couldn’t find it, do you feature it somewhere in your collection? Keep making fantastic videos we appreciate it.

[@stts2318]

Your voice is so soothing. I loved the video♥️

[@DalainaRenee]

Cause dinner was better during the day you’d burn off more calories then at night as well. My grandma always had dinner at lunch

[@barbiejean7947]

I love listening to you, Laura. So relaxing, engaging, fun and informative

[@maringrachart]

Love,Love all your information s ON these beautiful icon s! Tsk again, New viewer

[@Trisherboops]

Ok you’ve done it I’m going out to get Pillsbury cake mix!

[@Laurajaneatelier]

Yay fun

[@diesel1able]

Love your videos and sense of humor ❤❤🙏🙏

[@TheMocao]

Nowadays, people eat a lot of processed foods. My late father was once told, by his doctor, that he needed to stay away from restaurants. 🤔

[@KimRoseilj]

I so enjoy your channel!

[@janetduncan87]

I used to have that green doll there, behind you. I got mine at a theme park when I was 16..

[@yfa6244]

Grace took such good care of herself, then that fateful car crash... it's so ssd.

[@susans5296]

Thank you for sharing Laura 💖

[@Laurajaneatelier]

Thanks for watching

[@milliedragon4418]

That is true about cigarettes but of course the negative outweighs any benefit

[@xochbr]

Love your channel

[@Echolyris212]

Loved this very very much! Thanks.

[@PrincessKLS]

I love milk but I don't usually drink organic since it doesn't come in the gallon jugs.

[@beanburritos97]

Love your videos!

[@jayjflores8790]

The name of the dolls behind you my mom used have those dolls ✨⭐️🤩

[@MadPuddings]

I think something good that we have more opportunity to have now are seeds! So many great seeds (but expensive, some of them)

[@yfa6244]

We have ragaved our wheat supply. /i truly believe that what we do to wheat have caused some obesity problems in the USA Italy and other nations do not spray their wheat and use organic wheat. I have heard people going to these places, eating bread and not gaining a pound... then come back still eat wheat and gain weight.

[@jdawgb7642]

I agree and have also heard several people talk about that.

[@PrincessKLS]

I find it interested that a drug that helps you keep weight off (tobacco cigarettes) are unacceptable in our current culture but pot (marijuana) which can make you hungry and lazy is totally acceptable in modern culture.

[@alp7928]

Exactly!

[@PrincessKLS]

Well, I guess my shoes/feet would fit into the 1950s asthetic. I'm a size 6-6.5

[@sigmakodiak1701]

Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn's eating plans seem both timeless and practical.

[@griselgomez1]

Nice video ! I’ve been wondering how they stayed so small back then .

[@MelissaLigon]

Your skin is so beautiful Laura

[@janelevey3435]

Very interesting!

[@es1442]

We currently put obese people on tv shows… 500lb life, people seemed to start embracing being heavy instead of slender & fit. We have drastically lowered the bar

[@abbeyjanegreen703]

Love the show xxx

[@JoDee172]

Wait did I actually see a toaster/teapot @16:14? Was that real?

[@KathBorup]

People didn't drink everyday. Wow! Mad men lied to us 😂

[@BarelySocialExperiment]

I’m sure the alcoholics still drank every day….

[@blueberrycobbler]

@@BarelySocialExperimentStating the obvious.

[@TheMeowizer]

Laura the lipstick suits you very much

[@lannypanny3225]

im lucky to be able to fit the vintage clothing since im small besides my breasts

[@julias8763]

Wow! I eat like I live in the 50😂😂😂

[@sarahosborne7477]

Eartha kitt was amazing.

[@parisshangreaux8816]

I’m changing my diet

[@jeanbush8791]

And the moral of the cleaning story is: Never wear a red dress in a pink kitchen.😅

[@kathleengivant-taylor2277]

Don’t like lamb either. I would choose pork chops, steak, or maybe a chicken breast

[@antoniocristian757]

Grace 👑

[@lacreashiabulls]

There's nothing secret about starving yourself

[@Laurajaneatelier]

No one starved themselves

[@kathleengivant-taylor2277]

Milk upsets alot of peoples stomach as they become adults. I hardly ever drink milk. I drink water, iced tea homemade type, coffee that is brewed, once in a while juice. We don’t drink soda. We hardly ever eat out anymore

[@tankgirllovesroos]

Lmao. A lot of people that I knew/know that lived in that era smoked like chimneys and drank like fish and I think that's why they were thin.

[@elizabradley4797]

Think I am a fifties size lady...Had 18" waist before children, size 6 dress, size 5½ shoe size. 5'5½. 32 C.

[@MadamoftheCatHouse]

Actually, 50s were the heyday of canned and processed foods.

[@Laurajaneatelier]

There’s way more processed food today

[@MadamoftheCatHouse]

@@Laurajaneatelier People are much more aware of its harm now. Back then it was actively promoted as modern, labour saving way of feeding a family. Also it included toxic ingridient that were taken of the market. Sliced Wonderdread was more popular than bakery stuff. If u look at 19th century, canned goods were made w toxins like sulfates (makes canned peas green), food colouring like mercury and other toxins, bread w plaster of paris, sour milk w Borax to kill sourness. Foods adulterated w garbage & toxins to increase bulk. Broxy meat (diseased animals). Things did get better in 20th century due to health and safety regulation and refrigeration. However 50s foods were still canned and highly processed. This whole thing about food being more wholesome in the past is just that, a myth that doesn't stand up to proper scrutiny.

[@MadPuddings]

Grace was borderline ED sorry, maybe? Idk 😶 ignore me

[@DalainaRenee]

The dark side of Hollywood!!

[@denisehartzel946]

Eating out to much cooking good food at home that's the trick.

[@Laurajaneatelier]

Definitely

[@AA-ib8cr]

You havent done anything ABOUT DOLORES DEL RIO, THE BIG HOLLYWOOD STAR OF THE HOLLYWOOD GOLDEN AGE.

[@Lori_Hanna]

My mom would have coffee with a ton of whole milk and sugar in it. Breakfast would be whole milk and normally 2 hostess cupcakes. then snacking all day on brownies, cookies, hostess cupcakes, ho-hos or Anything chocolate, including chocolate bars. Everything with whole milk. She would have some things like fried chicken legs with mashed potatoes and gravy. Steak or fried pork chops for dinner. She would eat what ever I made for dinner, I made healthy food. Whole milk with it again. And dessert and a late night snack with milk. She chain smoked but never drank never did drugs. Never exercised and never gained or lost a pound. She was 5'6 and around 125. That is how my mom's siblings are/were. They ate anything and never gained weight. Me ....i wish I was that way.

[@Angelo_Manuel]

Talk about a great figure in the 50’s? Think AVA GARDNER; she has and amazing figure and gorgeous face. One of the few stars that never got on a diet; her metabolism was sky rocket. Sorry you left out such a beauty and athletic lady.

[@Emily-me]

I wish I didn’t but I hate the taste of milk.

[@earthgoddess2468]

Wheat allergys increased now days.

[@anotheryoutuberperson38]

I have one

[@Toastymosty69]

I wish you didn't have kiss ass to these feminists. They're grown enough to exit out if they're triggered.

[@Laurajaneatelier]

You mean the body positive stuff?

[@Toastymosty69]

@@Laurajaneatelier yes.

[@Aussiegirl1972]

Even though Earth Kitt ate healthy she died of Colon Cancer.

[@blueberrycobbler]

It could have been genetics. Many cancers and diseases are due to genetics/genetic mutations.

[@Aussiegirl1972]

@@blueberrycobbler Yes that’s right

[@wannaduckfin]

More processed foods today.

[@Flyig_Walrus]

Organic milk ii a joke.

[@richiethev4623]

I hate to be that person but I will go their so what I see in those photo's are a bunch of white woman and with their body shape it was much easier to have that smaller waist n' slimmer bodies. What about woman whom are of Black, Arabic and Hispanic/Latin background those woman have a much different body types so I would like to see how those woman look back then..

[@Laurajaneatelier]

I feature Eartha Kitt, also I couldn’t find any vintage video footage. Sorry it’s hard to find the video clips that are royalty free

[@richiethev4623]

@@Laurajaneatelier oh dang that sucks you couldn't find any videos but the photos of her are beautiful. I think her love of dancing and all that helped dramatically with het body shape. I apologize of I came off harsh but it's most photo's at least those colorful drawings are always featuring white I just wish they included more people of various cultures so it was nothing towards you instead towards those artist who made those drawings..

[@Arginne]

Wait what?! Lol what does being white have to do with anything? I still have to work to have a nice body? Tf. All Caucasians dont like all have the same body type or something you sound laughably ignorant.

[@ghostlyimageoffear6210]

They were all smaller then too, and do we really need to include every ethnicity who was marginal, i.e. Arabs in the Hollywood 50's?

[@baobypixar5841]

@@ghostlyimageoffear6210 at the very least, it would be interesting to see examples of different cultural beauty standards at the time. Even with the hegemony of white culture in the US, black and Latino Americans had their own culture within the overarching culture too.

[@MelissaLigon]

Get away from Hollywood

[@elizabradley4797]

Great for a Lazy Sunday. Thank You Laura Jane ~ .50's vignette on Diet ~. People did not & could not waste money back then ~ stars seemed to survive on much less in portions ~ I read.too much news so your.Sunday 'Cinema' is a Welcome Treat about.what I love the most ~ Old Hollywood 💗 💜💓 🎥🎟️🎬💄

[@MadPuddings]

I love your old hollywood diet videos! Or vintage diets! Do more pleaseeee 🙏