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Emmy Rossum has no shame.
It’s understandablesuch unapologetic confidence comes with having a career that is taking off.
But despite the ubersuccess, Emmy couldn’t be sweeter or funnier.
We got her to spill a few secrets.
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Class up your routine.
You just can’t be the slacker.
And I raise my hand like an idiot whenever the instructor asks if anyone is new to the class.
I’m, like, ‘Yep, I’m the loser who hasn’t been here before.’
At least I’m not going to screw myself up by doing it wrong!"
Left: Bra, Jill Stuart, $198; 212-343-2300.
Shorts, Milly, $195;MillyNY.com.
It’s counterintuitive, because you would think, I should stay on the treadmill for five hours.
I also cut out all fruit and eat a lot of protein and vegetables.
Left: At a benefit for children, 2010.
Still, a half-assed workout is better than nothing.
I think you should just do something every day."
Left: At the 2008 Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute gala.
Feel the burn now.
“I’m working on my obliques.
I do that standing straight up, holding the 8-pound weights and bending to the side.
I’m going for that indentmy friends are, like, ‘OK!
You don’t have to go all Terminator on us.'”
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Earrings, $385;CourtneyLeeCollection.com
And set a weirdly awesome long-term goal.
It costs [hundreds of thousands] right now, but I hope eventually it will be $500.
Left: Rockin’ red at the Academy Awards, 2005.
Laugh loudly and often.
(It’s the funnest ab workout there is.)
“I’m extremely focused.
But as focused as I am, I’m silly as well.
Oh, they get very loud.”
Left: At the Golden Globes, 2005.
Know what keeps you Zen.
“I don’t always make my bed.
If my life is in a state of chaos, then I have to make it.
Left: At Donna Karan’s fall runway show, 2012.
Enjoy cheat daysnot just one!
But I also gave myself two cheat days a week.
I’d eat a steak and fries, an ice cream sundae and then go to Pinkberry.
Shoot me in the face.'
But it was totally worth it.
Now I can gain back those 6 pounds that I had lost to do the movie.”
Left:Beautiful Creaturesis your new fit-speration.
When it comes to food, do what you gotta do.
My mom has never owned a saltshaker.
Left: At the Fashion’s Night Out benefit, 2009.
Be the best version of yourself.
“I’m not going to wake up like Gisele tomorrow.
That’s just not going to happen.
She’s a genetic freakand stunning.
I’m a human being.
I’m fit because I make it a priority and it’s part of my job.
I also attempt to stay confident, so 5 pounds up or down doesn’t affect my brain.”
“I don’t like a guy if he doesn’t like my animals.
I have a dog, Cinnamon, and a cat.”
Seriously, that number on the scale isn’t everything.
Left: At Marchesa’s spring 2010 show.
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