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"I don't believe in dieting"

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A glamorous refusal, delivered with the kind of throwaway certainty only a seasoned screen icon can make sound like doctrine. When Joan Collins says, "I don't believe in dieting", she is not offering nutrition advice; she is puncturing an entire moral economy built around women's bodies. The phrasing matters: "believe" frames dieting less as a health practice than as a faith system, complete with guilt, purity tests, and a constant threat of backsliding. Collins positions herself as an unbeliever, which is a neat inversion in a culture that treats self-denial as virtue and appetite as sin.

The subtext is classic Collins: control without confession. She doesn't bargain with the camera or the tabloids by admitting struggle. Instead she asserts taste, pleasure, and discipline on her own terms. Coming from an actress whose public persona is drenched in high-wattage elegance, the line doubles as branding: she is the woman who eats, enjoys, and still wins. That's a quietly radical proposition in an industry where "maintenance" is often code for punishing routine.

Context sharpens the edge. Collins came up through eras that demanded women be both voluptuous and tightly managed, then watched the culture swing into low-fat hysteria, then into wellness-as-identity. Her refusal reads as a veteran's eye-roll at every new regime. It's not anti-health; it's anti-penance. The message isn't "ignore your body". It's "stop letting body management become your religion."

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Joan Collins (born May 23, 1933) is a Actress from USA.

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