Old School Beauty Treatments That Should Stay Vintage

Hollywood's Torturous Diet

Hollywood really was a different place back in the day. Judy Garland once said that the executives at MGM wanted her to lose weight, so they put her on a strict diet. She would only consume chicken soup, coffee, and 80 cigarettes a day. While we definitely do not under any circumstances recommend this specific diet, we can see how this one might work. It basically combines starvation and nicotine.

Garland also said that she was put on diet pills, which are a bit more dubious when it comes to whether or not these things actually work. There are still a plethora of pills out there today claiming that they can help you lose weight.