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It is a fact that celebrities can afford to hire personal fitness trainers and private chefs to keep a check on their weight and fitness regime.  But, if you go by the BMI count of celebrities, you might get mislead with numbers and find that even the hottest looking celebs are overweight! 
 
BMI (Body Mass Index) is often considered the standard scale to determine the level of fat content in your body.  BMI considers the height-weight ratio and places a person’s body fatness in one of the four broad categories: Underweight (18.5 or lower), normal weight (18.5 to 24.5), overweight (25 to 29.9) and obese (30 and above).  However, there is a loophole in the calculation of BMI.  BMI measurements can be misleading because it does not differentiate between muscle mass and fat. 

Compare the BMIs of celebrities with their physique and check whether you agree to what the BMI calculator has to say.
 
Angelina Jolie:  The ‘Tomb Rider’ star sure shed a lot of weight to get those sizzling curves for her role in the movie ‘tomb Rider’.  However it seems like the weight loss got too much into her and went far beyond just curves.  She now looks like all bones and needs to put on some weight to be healthier.
 
At 5.8”, she weighs a mere 118 lbs and that gives her a BMI of 17.9, making her under weight.  Well! Her recent photos do seem to be telling her underweight story clearly.  Hope running around her six kids doesn’t make her cut down weight further.
 
Beyonce Knowles:  the body of this “Bootylicious” pop star is heralded as having perfectly proportionate curves in all tabloids.  Well even her pictures tell this.  Let us see what her BMI has to say about her much praised body.

At 5.6” , Beyonce weighs 130 lbs, giving her an estimate of 21. So the BMI chart also agrees with the tabloids.  With a BMI of 21, she is well within the “normal” range.  Well, all the skinny looking celebs could switch to Beyonce style of diet and fitness regime to get ‘oomph’ curves like her.

Tom Cruise: If you are one of those guys who drooled over the fabulous physique of Tom Cruise, his BMI comes as a shock for you.  The 5.7 “ star clocks at an estimated 166 lbs, making his BMI count 26.  Going by his BMI count, Tom Cruise is overweight.  Now you know what I mean by ‘BMI can be misleading’.