MIA: "We're all watching starving people."

Frozen yoghurt! Pizza! Imagine eating that!

“I go to town!” she said, referring to the fact that such food is forbidden while she’s under the scrutiny of TV cameras.

And she’s not even one of the actresses.

In a recent blog post after the Oscars, UK journalist Rachel Tarley wrote of the awards show:

“Millions of people around the world – many of them young girls – are watching the action at the world’s longest mutual congratulation session unfold on their TV screens.

They’re watching for the gowns, the jewellery, the hair and make-up. As an added bonus, they get protruding collar bones, razor-sharp shoulder blades and withered arms. If they listen carefully enough, there are even barely disguised tips on how to achieve the elegant Holocaust-chic style.

Early on in the red carpet fanfare at last night’s Oscars, the universally adored (and formerly ‘curvy’) Jennifer Lawrence broke off an interview to ask: ‘Is there food here?’ before explaining that she was ‘starving’ because she hadn’t had time to eat all day.

Jennifer, who suffered from pneumonia earlier this year, could well have been a specific target of Oscars host Seth Macfarlane’s joke about the pre-red carpet Hollywood diet.

‘And those of you who gave yourselves the flu two weeks ago to “get there”? It paid off,’ he quipped, to a murmur of uncomfortable laughter.