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Michelle Pfeiffer Says She Used to Be in a 'Breatharian' Cult
UPI ^ | Nov. 3, 2013 | Kate Stanton

Posted on 11/04/2013 2:06:31 PM PST by nickcarraway

Michelle Pfeiffer was in her 20s when she became involved in a cult that encouraged its followers to live without food or water.

Tabloids are full of stories of Hollywood actresses on crazy fad diets, but Michelle Pfeiffer once belonged to a cult that believed human beings could learn to live on nothing but air.

In a recent interview with The Sunday Telegraph, the 55-year-old actress said she was 20 when she moved to Los Angeles and met a couple who acted like "personal trainers."

“They worked with weights and put people on diets. Their thing was vegetarianism,” she said. “They were very controlling. I wasn’t living with them but I was there a lot and they were always telling me I needed to come more. I had to pay for all the time I was there, so it was financially very draining.”

The couple believed in breatharianism -- the idea that followers should try to move beyond veganism.

Though Pfeiffer is still a vegan, she said she realized she was in a cult when she met her first husband, actor Peter Horton. He was working on a film about cults at the time when she had the epiphany: "I was in one."


TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: breatharian; breathariancult; breatharianism; cult; cults; michellepfeiffer; peterhorton; pfeiffer; prana; religion; vegan; veganism
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To: MWestMom

If someone is called an heiress, they should be able to live on air.


21 posted on 11/04/2013 2:31:18 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

There is this guy who invented a shake that he claims you can live on and never eat again.

I’m not searching for that thread though


22 posted on 11/04/2013 2:31:36 PM PST by GeronL
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To: nickcarraway
Well, that explains a lot in "Scarface".


23 posted on 11/04/2013 2:35:15 PM PST by Fledermaus (Primary and beat the RINO's.)
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To: dfwgator
Dag-gone-it! You beat me to it and I thought I was his only fan.

Quod erat demonstrandum, baby (Ooh you speak French)

Genius.

Personally I'm dabbling with the beerarian cult. You actually can live on beer. Well, most of you, anyway. Fortunately my 0bamacare policy will cover liver transplants.

24 posted on 11/04/2013 2:36:31 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: nickcarraway

Apparently that is what Dr. Hazzard hoped. : )


25 posted on 11/04/2013 2:38:16 PM PST by MWestMom (Psalms 109:8)
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To: nickcarraway
Well, she couldn't have practiced this idiocy fully for more than a week or two.........she could have believed it for a longer longer time, but not actually done it. I'm guessing that reality got in her way..........
26 posted on 11/04/2013 2:44:58 PM PST by Lakeshark (Mr Reid, tear down this law!)
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To: pallis

“Michelle Pfeiffer has that perfect bone structure and looks to make up for any lapse of brain power she may have suffered. The same can’t be said for a lot of airheads in Hollywood, like Sean Penn.”

She sure was skinny in Scarface, and she looked good anyway. She still does.


27 posted on 11/04/2013 2:57:29 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: Mastador1

LOL!


28 posted on 11/04/2013 3:00:22 PM PST by Zathras
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To: The Antiyuppie
2nd only to natalie Wood for being the most beautiful actress.


29 posted on 11/04/2013 3:04:06 PM PST by newfreep (Breitbart sent me...)
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To: The Antiyuppie

I think that I saw her recently in “Dark Shadows”. She looks great.


30 posted on 11/04/2013 3:06:29 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: nickcarraway
All right, here it is.
31 posted on 11/04/2013 3:48:39 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
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To: Perseverando

> I guess Obama thinks Americans can live on hot air - his.

Not true. If so, we’d all be very tat Breatherians...


32 posted on 11/04/2013 4:39:54 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Conspiracy Guy

I think she was a Pastafarian

http://www.wikihow.com/Become-a-Pastafarian


33 posted on 11/04/2013 4:48:45 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: nickcarraway
"Breatharian"????
Michelle Pfeiffer is an idiot.
34 posted on 11/04/2013 5:29:25 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: cloudmountain

Most people in Hollyweird have surrendered to shallowness and vapidity


35 posted on 11/04/2013 5:30:31 PM PST by GeronL
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To: trisham
I think that I saw her recently in “Dark Shadows”. She looks great.

She OUGHT to look great. She SURE doesn't have any brains going for her.
A breatharian??
PUL-EEEZE, that's stupid even for the Hollyweirdos.

36 posted on 11/04/2013 5:31:31 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: GeronL
I think that I saw her recently in “Dark Shadows”. She looks great.

Missy Michelle has gone WAY, WAY, WAY beyond mere shallowness and vapidity. She has gone ROUND THE BEND

Breatharian? Hahahaha, WHAT a moron.

37 posted on 11/04/2013 5:33:26 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: TurboZamboni

Maybe in the early years. But not near the end.


38 posted on 11/04/2013 5:34:29 PM PST by Conspiracy Guy (On the evening of 10/16/13, the ailing republican party breathed its last breath.)
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To: cloudmountain

lol


39 posted on 11/04/2013 5:37:44 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Mastador1

Penn’s father was a Hollywood communist affected by what’s most often called McCarthyism. But still I agree with the sentiment.


40 posted on 11/05/2013 1:58:58 AM PST by OldNewYork (Biden '13. Impeach now.)
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