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ScarJo Chews Up Media Over Superhero Diet

Mon., Apr. 13, 2009 2:20 PM PDT by Marc Malkin

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Scarlett Johansson has no problem admitting that she's working out and cleaning up her diet like never before. After all, she plans to look good in a latex catsuit for her new superhero role in the Iron Man sequel.

She does, however, insist that her ways of shaping up—and the results—are not as drastic as some tabloids would like you to believe.

"Claims have been made that I've been on a strict workout routine regulated by costars, whipped into shape by trainers I've never met, eating sprouted grains I can't pronounce," Johansson writes on the Huffington Post.

In order to truly lose the 14 pounds hyped by the media, "I'd have to part with both arms. And a foot," she writes....

The starlet quotes statistics from the National Eating Disorders Association while accusing unnamed publications of being "reckless and dangerous" just to sell a story.

"Yes, celebrities are just like us," Johansson writes. "They struggle with demons and overcome obstacles and have annoying habits and battle vices. That said, I would be absolutely mortified to discover that some 15-year-old girl in Kansas City read one of these 'articles' and decided she wasn't going to eat for a couple of weeks so she too could 'crash diet' and look like Scarlett Johansson."

Johansson insists she's always advocated for a healthy body image, not dramatic crash diets or miracle workouts. And given her post of almost 1,000 words, we know she means it.