Random Celebrities Who Are Picky Eaters (21 items)

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  (#1) Donald Trump

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  According to an article in the New York Times, The Orange One likes himself a piping hot slice of Americana: fast food, over-cooked steaks, diet cola, and greasy spoon diner grub. Trump regularly posts photos of himself eating the likes of KFC buckets and Big Macs on Instagram, though a Republican strategist interviewed by the NY Times believes this plays into Trump's carefully cultivated image as the establishment outsider who's really a regular Joe (who can afford his own plane, as your average Joe can). 

  While Trump's social media love affair with woo-the-voters food (remember when he told all those Hispanics how much he loved them by celebrating Cinco de Mayo with a Trump Tower taco bowl?), he apparently doesn't have particularly refined taste. According to a former butler of Trump's, he likes his steaks (really) well done: “It would rock on the plate, it was so well done" (so basically like burnt to a crisp?). 

  As per a piece in Daily Mail, beyond its appeal to his constituency, Trump likes fast food because it's quick and efficient. He's also suggested he would get rid of lavish state dinners of elected president, saying  “We should be eating a hamburger on a conference table, and we should make better deals with China and others and forget the state dinners." 
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  (#2) Barack Obama

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  As The New York Times explained in 2009, President Obama does not like beets, but he does like Mexican food and chili. According to the article, Obama has "a weakness for chips and salsa and tends to put hot sauce on everything.” Same.
  
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  (#3) Nicolas Cage

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  The ever-strange Nicolas Cage once said, "I actually choose the way I eat according to the way animals have sex. I think fish are very dignified with sex. So are birds. But pigs, not so much. So I don't eat pig meat or things like that. I eat fish and fowl."
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  (#4) George H. W. Bush

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  In 1990 President George H.W. Bush bravely told the world that he did not like broccoli. He went on to say', "I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli!'' You tell 'em!
  
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  (#5) Drew Barrymore

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  During an interview in 2010, Drew Barrymore revealed, "I'm a bit of a picky eater, but that's because I'm a vegetarian... I'm like a typical American teenager when it comes to my favorite foods! I love peanut butter with bananas. That's my favorite. I like grilled cheese sandwiches and I love homemade macaroni with cheese."
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  (#6) Elizabeth II

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  Royal Chef Darren McGrady revealed some of Queen Elizabeth's eating habits to Recipe's Plus: "We can never serve anything with garlic or too much onions. We also couldn't serve meat that was rare, as she liked her meat more well done."
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  (#7) Mena Suvari

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  “I follow my own diet, and I’m pretty anal about it," explained Mena Suvari. “I’m very particular, and it can be hard on sets. They’ll say, ‘I’ll just tell you what’s for lunch.’ And I’m like, ‘No, I need to go look at it.’ People probably think I’m being rude, but I can visualize how the food is going to affect my body." 
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  (#8) Deepak Chopra

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  Deepak Chopra loves to eat the rainbow, and I'm not talking about Skittles. He explained his food choices to The New York Times: “In general, I want to have seven colors of the rainbow. The seven colors of the rainbow are very important because they reflect phytochemicals, which are the most intelligent micronutrients that we know the pharmaceutical benefits of. Phytochemicals are actually chemicals derived from the energy of sun. They’re anti-inflammatory; they’re anti-carcinogenic. I’ve been a lifelong student of how nutrition affects our body physiologically, but also pharmacologically and even psychologically, because moods are influenced by food. That’s why we use taste metaphors: sweet love, sour grapes, bitter experience, pungent remarks, astringent humor and salt of the earth, etc. I think even the consciousness of the chef, the consciousness of the people you’re with and the attitude to food influences everything about food.” Sounds exhausting.
  
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  (#9) Wendy Williams

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  As talk-show host Wendy Williams told The New York Times: “I carry my own Frank’s Red Hot sauce because there are a lot of places where everything is good, and when it comes to the sauces, they pull out Tabasco sauce. I’m like, ‘Are you kidding me?’ Frequently, Frank’s is the one thing I’ll have in my bag.”
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  (#10) Ringo Starr

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  Ringo Starr has never had pizza, curry, or an onion, according to Rolling Stone. But the Beatle does love goat cheese: "I have goat cheese because of the molecule size," Ringo told the magazine. "You know how you're always full after a glass of milk? You're always full because the molecules are huge. Look at a baby cow. Now, a goat is something our body can handle. And that's why they think I'm a little crazy." 
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  (#11) François Hollande

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  According to CBS News, when a number of chefs visited the United Nations, it was revealed that French President Francois Hollande hates artichokes. 
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  (#12) Mariah Carey

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  Mariah Carey allegedly went on the "purple diet" to shed the baby weight after her twins were born. According to Daily Mail, 'Three days a week, she eats purple foods like plums, grapes and eggplants." Why purple? Foods that are purple tend to be contain anthocyanins, a powerful anti-oxidant. 
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  (#13) Stephen King

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  As author Stephen King told Bon Appetit,  “I have a son who swears by creme brulee and always eats it before he writes. For me, it’s cheesecake. I also love baking bread. It makes the house smell wonderful.” He went on to say, “I’m not a fan of anything slippery or slimy. I don’t eat oysters. It’s horrible, the way they slither down your throat alive.” 
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  (#14) Steve Jobs

  • Dec. at 56 (1955-2011)

  In Steve Jobs, a biography written by Walter Isaacson, the author details Jobs's "occasional tendency to eat only one or two foods, like carrots or apples, for weeks at a time." Allegedly, "Jobs also spent some time as a fruitarian, a subset of veganism that means eating only fruits, nuts, seeds, vegetables and grains -- absolutely no animal products."
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  (#15) Novak Djokovic

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  Tennis star Djokovic follows a strict gluten-free diet... and also eats grass. After his win against Rafael Nadal in 2011, Djokovic started eating the grass on the court. Djokovic later told reporters, the grass was "well kept" and "tasted quite well, really." He said, "I felt like an animal. I wanted to see how it tastes. It tastes good. It came spontaneously, really. I didn't plan to do it. You know, I didn't know what to do for my excitement and joy."
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  (#16) Warren Buffett

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  As Warren Buffet explained to Fortune, “If I eat 2700 calories a day, a quarter of that is Coca-Cola. I drink at least five 12-ounce servings. I do it everyday.” He's also a big fan of Utz potato sticks and ice cream for breakfast. No word on how many cavities he's had filled in his lifetime.
  
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  (#17) Hugh Hefner

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  Hugh Hefner's chef William S. Bloxsom-Carter once revealed that Hef "enjoys lamb chops, and he has half a grapefruit every day. He likes fried chicken with mashed potatoes, which is his mother’s recipe. He’s a Midwestern gentleman, so he enjoys those kinds of foods. He has two piles of mashed potatoes with a poached egg placed in each one. Pretty wild stuff but it’s OK.”
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  (#18) Petra Nemcova

  As Petra Nemcova explained to Health, "There was the diet where I ate just carrots, tomatoes, and seafood. It turned my palms yellow because of the vitamin A! People looked at me like, 'Are you sick? Do you have hepatitis?!'"
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  (#19) Karl Lagerfeld

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  Fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld told Bazaar, "The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast. I have two protein shakes made for me by my doctor -- they have a chocolate taste and no sugar, of course — and steamed apples. That's all. I don't like anything else in the morning. I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange. I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed. I can even drink it in the middle of the night, and I can sleep. I don't drink coffee, I don't drink tea, I drink nothing else."
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  (#20) Saddam Hussein

  • Dec. at 69 (1937-2006)

  American soldiers guarding the late Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein said that he had very specific eating habits. Raisin Bran Crunch was his breakfast favorite, but he wouldn't Froot Loops. While he would eat fish and chicken, he refused to eat beef at dinner. He also loved Cheetos, and when the guards ran out of them, he'd get really grumpy. 
  
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  (#21) Dianna Agron

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  According to ET, actress Dianna Agron can't stand it when two foods touch each other on the same plate.
  

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