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Growing up my
favourite meal
was fried food...
My mum always fed us healthy,
organic food; we were never
allowed white bread – it always
had to be grainy, and I think at the
beginning I rebelled against that
and wanted all the things I wasn’t
allowed to have. But it’s not long
before you realise how unhealthy
food makes you feel gross. I’m very
much about balance today. Don’t
get me wrong, I still love pizzas andjust feels better when you nourish it.
I’m more loving towards myself now.✱
Starting my own
beauty company has
been a learning curve...
At the beginning I knew exactly
what I wanted, but I learnt along
the way that you have to be open
to professional opinions and
criticism. We take polls now to find
out what’s working. You have to be
patient and you can’t learn unless
you make mistakes, you have to
be OK with that. And be willing to
put yourself out there creatively,
which is intimidating. But LUMA has
been really well received and it’s an
amazing contrast against modelling.✱
The health vibe in NYC
is nothing like LA...
There’s not as many gluten-
free restaurants and juice bars
and Bulletproof coffee shops
everywhere. I do feel a lot healthier
when I’m in LA. New York is more
about eating out and there’s only
so much you can control when you
do that. With the lifestyle in New
York, you don’t have a lot of time
to go grocery shopping and cook
for yourself. Most of the fresh food
in your fridge goes off because for
the next two nights you’re out for
dinner. It takes a lot more planning
to be healthy there.✱
The Bulletproof
Cookbook is the last
cookbook I bought...
I go in and out of it. I don’t do the
diet, which kind of misses the point!
It’s pretty carb restrictive, and if
I stuck to that, I mean, there’d be
nothing left of me. But I love the
butter coffee. I have it for breakfast.burgers and I eat them, I don’t hold
back, it’s just about balancing it.✱
The older you get,
the harder you have
to work at the gym...
I turned 30 recently and
everything’s changed. At 20 you
don’t worry about much, everything
bounces back a lot quicker. Back
then I wouldn’t have thought twice
about things like what I’m eating.
But as you get wiser, you become
more in tune with your body and itIt’s no wonder Hart, 30, stars in Seafolly campaigns and walks the Victoria’s Secret
runway – she’s in ace shape, and that’s because she gives her body plenty of TLC. “I
just took a three-day transcendental meditation course at the weekend, it’s my new
thing,” she says. “My sister [Ashley] has been meditating for years and every time I’m
with her, she does 20 minutes in the morning, 20 in the afternoon. I used to think
it was too hard to find the time, but I’m going to do it. The benefits outweigh the
commitment by a long shot,” she says. We chatted to Jess while she was waiting for a
f light back from LA (where Ash is based), to NYC where she lives with her boyfriend
Stavros Niarchos III and her dog, Floyd. Between shooting fashion campaigns globally
and running LUMA, her own natural cosmetics line, we’re frankly impressed she has
time for anything except collapsing on the couch. High achieving is in this girl’s genes.