Carol Alt's Website
Carol Alt's Raw Food Site
Carol Alt Likes It Raw
By Nitzan Koshet
Fashion Wire Daily February 15, 2005 - NEW YORK - She has been called “The Most Beautiful Woman in the World” by magazines, she was the first to establish the supermodel era, she is an award wining actress in Europe and now, she is coming back with a new book – healthier, stronger and yes, even more beautiful than before.
“Eating in the Raw,” shares Alt’s healthier, more beautiful lifestyle and guess what? It’s already a best seller. The book is written in an approachable way, making it simple to “go raw.”
FWD met Alt at her New York office and sat down to “talk raw.” Surrounded by the posters of the gorgeous Carol Alt, we got the information first hand from the nymph herself about the most important thing on her agenda for the last eight years – eating raw food.
Ms. Alt’s book takes you through her journey to a healthy and happier life while at the same time reveals a lot about her behind-the-scenes life as a model.
The book is written in an approachable way that makes easy to “go raw” — eating food which is not cooked, or barely cooked, while healthily losing weight in the process.
Throughout her career Alt has been a trendsetter. She was the first to be called “supermodel,” one of the first to successfully move from modeling into acting and to produce her own calendar and posters. She eventually gave up the job because it was already done before. “For me it’s the challenge of doing something new, creating a new business or idea,” she explained.
“I was born on the first of December, I was suppose to be (born on) the second but my mom says I always like to be the first, it’s true,” said Alt. Alt recalled passing on an offer to appear on the cover of Playboy magazine, because another famous supermodel had already become the first model to grace the cover.
“Maybe [I’ll be] their first raw fifty year old on the cover without any work done (cosmetic surgery). Then we’ll talk, that would be a first,” Carol Alt smiled.
When the former super model smiles there are hardly any wrinkles on her face, perhaps seems a little unnatural at 44 years old, but the joke is on us because Ms. Alt is as natural as it gets, and that itself is a reason to read her book.
So what makes the most beautiful woman in the world change her ways so drastically in her mid 30s?
“I have tried every diet out there. I was still gaining weight, I was still starving, still starting to look older and getting more and more stupid things wrong with me, headaches, stomach acid, colds, those things keep creeping up on you, and the next thing I know is ‘oh, it’s because I’m getting older’ — baloney! I have less things wrong with me today that I had at 34 (years old), and I am ten years older, go figure.”
Not only did she figure it out, she decided to come back and help the world figure it out too. If being a trend leader and a super model helps, so be it says Alt. “God willing, God willing! I can only wish for every body else the bliss I have found with it, and that’s why I am working so hard.”
The challenges Alt faced while preaching her way of life to others were mostly due to their lack of education on the subject of eating raw, with people not knowing how or where to get the knowledge and the food. That’s why she decided to take her time to educate them.
In the book, Carol Alt explains how you can find a solution to any craving you have while eating raw. Alt is constantly finding new tricks by substituting food. “It’s an eye opener for people who think that if they are going to eat raw, they are going to be limited in what you can eat. Anything you eat cooked I can find you raw — your favorite dishes, your tiramisu.”
It also reveals Alt’s story as a starving model, her search for a better life, her frustrations and of course the happy ending she found with the help of the Dr. Nicholas Gonzales, who wrote the foreword in her book.
“I have seen him take people that were given up on, and unfortunately sometimes you have to get to the point where you are giving up to actually try something new,” said Alt about the doctor who changed her life.
Alt is very serious about her way of life and ready to share with whoever is interested, so she has also created a new website for an ongoing discussion about raw food (carolalt.com).
“It went up at the last moment. I found all these amazing places like “Raw Indulgements” or “Good Stuff by Mom and Me,” all these little places that had no big outlets for their things and I had all these people looking for things and had no place to buy it so I put it together,” said Alt about her website.
As part of her raw campaign, Alt prepared raw drinks in the Bryant Park tents during fashion week during a book signing. In the meantime, if you weren’t in New York for fashion week, you can always read the book to be prepared for the next time you meet Carol Alt, or just to get serious about your health and looks as Alt strongly suggests.
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