Jessica Simpson enthuses about cupping and her “clean diet”

Jessica Simpson has visibly slimmed down, as Kaiser noted last week. Like everything else this girl does, her method of losing weight doesn’t sound sustainable. Maybe I’m biased, though, because this is Jessica Simpson we’re talking about. She has a well known personal trainer, Harley Pasternak, who developed the arguably sensible “Five Factor Diet,” but Jessica is now touting a special fermented tea along with a vegan diet developed by a guru with the hilarious name of “Master Wang.”

Note that one of the websites mentioned in the text below, zenandtea, triggered my Kaspersy virus alert program, which denied me entry. It’s possibly infected or I’m getting a false positive:

Has Jessica Simpson been talking to Gwyneth Paltrow? The singer has spent the weekend eating vegan food, meditating and undergoing the ancient treatment of cupping.

“Shocked my system with a vegan diet, special Pu-erh tea from China, and cupping since friday! Who am I right now? This might be too clean!” Jessica confessed via Twitter last night.

The Price of Beauty star, who has talked openly about her struggles with her weight and body image, spent the weekend on a new age retreat with a healer called Master Wang.

Clearly, whatever he was doing worked, taking Jess on a far-out mystical journey.

“Has anyone ever tried cupping?” she Tweeted yesterday. “When u know you are doing something good for ur body the meditation creates intense visions. Love it!”

Jess explained her healer runs a program called Total Vitality and she included links to two websites MedicineBuddhas.org and ZenandTea.com.

[From OK! Magazine]

I will admit that I’ve done cupping and I’ve tried a vegan diet. I felt healthier and more balanced after each. For cupping I went to a Chinese doctor my regular physician recommended and I found it relaxing and probably detoxifying – it was hard to tell. I did the Eat To Live vegan diet for several weeks and found myself losing weight and feeling better with more energy. Now I just count calories, though, and eat more fruits and vegetables overall without giving up meat, wheat, dairy, caffeine or alcohol. Those things can drag you down though for sure and you have to practice moderation.

Did this guy comp Simpson’s visit in exchange for a mention, or did she pay for herself only to turn around and give free advertising to “Master Wang”? There’s just a whiff of a scam when it comes to weekend healing retreats that involve Eastern medical practices packaged and sold to consumers. It could be legitimate, it’s hard to tell. A vegan diet can help with all sorts of medical problems and I can’t fault Simpson for trying. If she’s having hallucinations, though, you have to assume something is wrong, like she has low blood sugar or is overtired. What’s next for Jessica, a guest column on Goop, introduced by Dame Paltrow? Goopy already covered this topic in a column last summer.

Jessica from a month ago: