{"id":28829,"date":"2010-08-27T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T17:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=28829"},"modified":"2010-08-27T13:59:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T18:59:57","slug":"miss-usa-tara-conners-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/miss-usa-tara-conners-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss USA Tara Conner’s Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Miss USA 2006 Tara Conner<\/p><\/div>\n

Former Miss USA, Tara Conner has spoken publicly about her drug addiction, which at its peak, meant popping upwards of 30 pills a day following her pageant crown.<\/p>\n

Conner was awarded the title in 2006, but almost immediately reports began surfacing of her alleged drug and alcohol use. After testing positive for cocaine, Donald Trump, co-owner of the Miss USA organization, gave the beautiful but troubled young woman a second chance as long as she cleaned up her act in rehab. Without hesitation, Conner entered into a treatment facility and got sober.<\/p>\n

While many people who use drugs to lose weight become underweight and malnourished because of the stimulatory and appetite-suppressing effects of the drugs, Conner has never commented on whether drugs had anything to do with her thin physique or whether diet supplements<\/a> were part of her drug repertoire. But she does admit that after years of using drugs to find her identity, she was numb to food.“I didn’t know what foods I liked. If someone said I like spaghetti, I’m going to go with spaghetti. If someone said I like pizza<\/a>, I was a pizza girl,” she told the Oprah<\/a> Show. “I never really had my own identity with anything, because the longer I used, my authentic self just continued to drop down.”<\/p>\n

Today, almost four years into her sobriety, Conner is making amends for her troubled life and is living up to the second chance that Trump gave her.<\/p>\n

Even though she is a strong advocate for substance abuse problems,\u00a0being in the limelight, health is a priority. But Conner’s diet is not routine of regimented rules. In fact, before a fundraiser fashion show, she admitted to chowing down on a cheeseburger as her pre-runway food.<\/p>\n

Burgers and fries are probably not the daily diet staples of this pageant-winning beauty, but a decadent indulgence every once in\u00a0awhile is\u00a0truly the path of a\u00a0healthy life.<\/p>\n

(image via: Oprah.com)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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