Food Network Star Giada Stays Thin By Spitting, Not Swallowing

Like many straight women, faced with something in her mouth, Food Network hottie Giada de Laurentiis would rather spit than swallow.

A source told Page Six that the skinny chef keeps a "dump bucket" on hand to spit out every bite she takes.

Fox News reports that de Laurentiis recently said the way she stays at a size 2 is by eating everything (or is it nothing) in moderation.

This is "the number one question [from fans], and the answer is, I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation."

"I know that's really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn't overdo anything," she told Health.com. "We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it. Pasta doesn't make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat."

Page Six notes that an "insider source" on the show told them that de Laurentiis never eats at all, and even goes as far as to have a 'stunt biter' on hand.

"Sometimes when they are shooting her taking bites out of food like cake, they have an assistant take the bite (so you only see teeth and a mouth), and then they cut back to her taking an empty fork out of her mouth to resume filming," said the source. "She does not eat at all while filming."

Asked about the insider's claim, Giada's rep Stephen Huvane found it hard to swallow (just like Giada's food?).

"That is absurd and completely false. She absolutely eats her own food while filming," said Huvane. "Giada tapes sometimes three episodes in one day, and they do multiple takes on a close-up of her eating. She doesn't always eat and swallow every time, since they can do sometimes six to ten takes with three episodes a day, and that would be like eating six to eight meals a day... The bottom line is, she most certainly does eat the food she prepares on the show, but does not always consume the whole dish, as that would be too much for most people to eat in one day."