"At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell - I'd drop a few pounds"
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The subtext is how thoroughly the actor’s body is treated as a production asset. Six meals a day isn’t a quirky diet; it’s an industrial workflow designed to meet a camera-ready deadline. When he says he had to “shove” food, it quietly punctures the fantasy that getting bigger is always fun or empowering. Bulking is framed as discomfort, even coercion: the trainer “wanted” it, the body complies. That dynamic matters in celebrity culture, where the public reads physiques as personal virtue while the industry treats them as part of the job description.
Context does the rest. Lautner became famous during the Twilight era, when teen franchises turned male leads into poster-ready templates of desire, and the press obsessively tracked bodies as plot points. His quote exposes the hidden cost of that gaze: a life organized around meals, time, and the panic of shrinking. It’s a reminder that “fit” in Hollywood often means hyper-managed, temporarily sustainable, and publicly consumable - a performance built meal by meal.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Lautner, Taylor. (2026, January 16). At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell - I'd drop a few pounds. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/at-one-point-i-had-to-shove-as-much-food-in-my-95053/
Chicago Style
Lautner, Taylor. "At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell - I'd drop a few pounds." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/at-one-point-i-had-to-shove-as-much-food-in-my-95053/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell - I'd drop a few pounds." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/at-one-point-i-had-to-shove-as-much-food-in-my-95053/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.




