ROBERTS TRAINED FOR HALF-MARATHON ON MOVIE SET
Movie star JULIA ROBERTS made the most of her downtime while making new m ovie EAT, PRAY, LOVE - by training for a half-marathon.
The Pretty Woman star reveals her husband Danny Moder persuaded her to test herself by taking on the 13.5-mile (21.7-kilometre) charity run in C alifornia in December (09) once filming on the epic movie wrapped and Rob erts was back in America five months after travelling through India, Ital y and Bali.
And she admits that training in the heat of India, Bali and an Italian summer gave her an advantage.
She says, "I trained a lot while I was doing the movie and it was so ho t there, I think it was to my advantage that I had trained under such dir e circumstances." Roberts admits she had a very special reason to take part in the marath on: "I just wanted to show my kids that the power of a female body is mor e than just giving birth, which is a great power… and my kids were out there, they made me a sign."
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