Penelope Cruz has "hypochondriac tendencies".
Penelope Cruz
The 41-year-old actress is health obsessed but accepts her focus on keeping her body in optimum condition is probably excessive.
Penelope - who has children Leo, five, and Luna, two, with husband Javier Bardem - goes to see a nutritional expert twice a year to check what she's deficient in and then she adjust her expensive vitamin intake accordingly.
Speaking to the Vogue website, she confessed: "I really believe it's true that your stomach is your second brain. I don't take general multivitamins. I take specific, good quality ones, - that's important."
Discussing how she's her specialist twice a year, she explained: "I go to see what I might be deficient in. It's probably too often, but it's all part of my hypochondriac tendencies."
Although she is very particular about what she puts into her body, the 'Zoolander No. 2' star only gave up smoking recently.
Since she ditched the cigarettes, the Spanish beauty insists she has noticed a massive improvement in her skin.
She said: "I didn't smoke a lot, I probably smoked seven or eight cigarettes a day, but when I stopped I really saw a difference in my skin."
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