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Wit & Attitude Quote by Kelly Brook

"Sex keeps me fit and healthy. What can be better than that? It's not about crazy diets or gym workouts"

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Brook’s line is doing three jobs at once: selling a body, rejecting the moralism that usually polices it, and smuggling in a lifestyle brand that feels breezily “real.” Coming from a model, “fit and healthy” isn’t a neutral phrase; it’s the industry’s most loaded currency. She deflates that currency with a wink: the regimen isn’t punishing discipline, it’s pleasure. In a culture that treats women’s bodies as projects to be managed, she swaps the language of deprivation (crazy diets) and self-surveillance (gym workouts) for something more intimate and less publicly measurable.

The intent is disarmingly pragmatic. Sex becomes framed as self-care, a private activity that delivers the public result everyone demands of her anyway. That’s the subtextual tightrope: she normalizes sexuality while keeping it legible inside the acceptable wellness narrative. It’s not “I like sex,” it’s “sex is healthy,” a justification that still has to pass through the filter of productivity and virtue.

Context matters: celebrity interviews routinely invite women to confess their “secrets” to staying in shape, and the expected script is hustle, restraint, control. Brook’s answer is a soft refusal of that script, trading grindset fitness for embodied enjoyment. It lands because it’s both cheeky and strategically safe: playful enough to read as empowerment, tame enough to avoid sounding like a manifesto. And it slyly points to a truth the wellness market hates: sometimes the most sustaining habits aren’t purchasable, trackable, or punishing.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Brook, Kelly. (2026, January 16). Sex keeps me fit and healthy. What can be better than that? It's not about crazy diets or gym workouts. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/sex-keeps-me-fit-and-healthy-what-can-be-better-135200/

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Brook, Kelly. "Sex keeps me fit and healthy. What can be better than that? It's not about crazy diets or gym workouts." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/sex-keeps-me-fit-and-healthy-what-can-be-better-135200/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Sex keeps me fit and healthy. What can be better than that? It's not about crazy diets or gym workouts." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/sex-keeps-me-fit-and-healthy-what-can-be-better-135200/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Kelly Brook (born November 23, 1979) is a Model from England.

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