Why Celebrities use pilates

Megan Markle Pilates body

Meghan Markle is a Pilates fan and says that reformer Pilates is “the best thing you can do for your body.”

Comedian Chelsea Handler states, “I was a fitness fiasco – until I found Pilates … It’s been the most gentle on my body … I’m longer and leaner and much more graceful. I can honestly say it’s changed my body – and my life.”

“I’m a Pilates person. It’s great. I had a hip problem. I had a chronic back, a pinched nerve and a hip problem and its’ completely solved all of it. I love it. It makes me feel like I’m taller,” says actress Jennifer Anniston.

Joan Bakewell, writer and broadcaster, on the secret of her health and agility at the age of 70, told The Guardian, “I have been going for 13 years … How do I measure the success of Pilates? Certainly, I emerge with a tremendous sense of well-being, and even if I do call at the coffee shop for a croissant afterwards, I still my health has been served. I remain active and relatively agile.”

According to Jamie Lee Curtis, “Pilates is the only exercise programme that has changed my body and made me feel great.”

Hugh Grant claims, “Now I have muscles of steel and could easily deal with giving birth.”
Martin Amis is a novelist and does Pilates twice a week. He says, “These [Pilates] exercises are really very necessary when you do a lot sitting … They keep you flexible enough to pull on your socks as you get older …When I get out of the car now, I don’t go arrrgghhh ….”

In 2016 Kate Hudson told Women’s Health, “I know I’m at my strongest when I’m doing Pilates because it never gets easier. The more you do Pilates the harder the things you can do become.” She also said, “I love how flexible I feel and I like what it does to the shape of my body.”