Rosemary LaPlanche

This is a 1954 Lydia Lane article where actress Rosemary LaPlanche talks about diet. Enjoy!

Though Rosemary La Planche is strikingly beautiful, she was smart enough to know that a girl who relies entirely on her good looks does not go too far. And this theory has worked out well because Rosemary is busy these days with lots of motion picture and TV assignments. “Even the Miss America contest (which Miss La Planche won in 1941) is judged by talent as well as appearance,” Rosemary told we met the other afternoon. “People are soon bored with beauty when there is nothing to back this up. “I think it was George Bernard Shaw who said he was not impressed with beauty when it was a gift from nature that the only interesting faces were those which were etched by living.”

I asked Miss La Planche if she had any trouble keeping her beautiful body in shape. “I keep check on my weight like any sensible person does but I am strong against fad dieting. I have seen too many people ruin their health by wanting to get thin too fast,” she explained. “You don’t put on 20 pounds in a couple of weeks so why try to take them off at that rate? There are wonderful diets nutritionally planned so that you lose excess fat without losing energy. “And another thing that does me, is seesawing back and forth. It’s not smart to go on a diet so strenuous that you can hardly wait for it to be over to start eating all the things that made you fat.”

“If you really don’t want to be overweight go after the cause,” Rosemary advised. “Curb your sweet tooth, take smaller portions, stop those between-meal nibbles. In other words, change your habits. “I had a friend who was overweight for a long time and finally she licked it. And now she gets much more pleasure from the admiring glances at her figure than she ever did from the boxes of chocolates she used to devour. “An important part of dieting is your outlook,” Rosemary continued. “I remember a phrase from one of your columns, Lydia, that sums it up when you see something which is tempting say to yourself, ‘a moment on the lip and a lifetime on the hip’.”