"I eat everything, that's a problem. I don't have discipline. My favorite dish is the Caribbean. Meat, rice, lots of grains. But I do like to do exercises. Lately, I've been having capoeira classes and lots of cardiovascular exercises, such as jogging and cycling"
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Ricky Martin turns the glossy machinery of pop stardom into something almost endearingly ordinary: a guy who loves food, knows it, and is trying to keep up with his own appetites. The line “I eat everything, that’s a problem” isn’t a confession of scandal; it’s a strategic demystification. Pop idols are supposed to look effortless. Martin does the opposite: he names “discipline” as the missing ingredient, not willpower as a virtue. The subtext is a negotiation with a culture that treats bodies as career assets while pretending it’s all “just genetics.”
His “favorite dish is the Caribbean” lands like a small act of cultural anchoring. He’s not describing a single plate so much as a heritage buffet - meat, rice, grains - the everyday staples that don’t fit neatly into the airbrushed wellness-industrial complex. Calling the Caribbean a “dish” is telling, too: identity becomes something consumed, packaged for interviews, yet still emotionally real. It’s a reminder that for artists whose fame travels globally, “home” often survives most vividly through taste.
Then comes the counterbalance: capoeira, jogging, cycling. Not “training,” not “grinding” - just exercises, lately. Capoeira matters here because it’s not merely cardio; it’s performance-adjacent, rhythmic, communal, Latin diasporic in its own way. Martin frames fitness less as punishment for eating and more as choreography: the pop star’s body as an instrument he plays, not a statue he polishes.
His “favorite dish is the Caribbean” lands like a small act of cultural anchoring. He’s not describing a single plate so much as a heritage buffet - meat, rice, grains - the everyday staples that don’t fit neatly into the airbrushed wellness-industrial complex. Calling the Caribbean a “dish” is telling, too: identity becomes something consumed, packaged for interviews, yet still emotionally real. It’s a reminder that for artists whose fame travels globally, “home” often survives most vividly through taste.
Then comes the counterbalance: capoeira, jogging, cycling. Not “training,” not “grinding” - just exercises, lately. Capoeira matters here because it’s not merely cardio; it’s performance-adjacent, rhythmic, communal, Latin diasporic in its own way. Martin frames fitness less as punishment for eating and more as choreography: the pop star’s body as an instrument he plays, not a statue he polishes.
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