Actress Keira Knightley stays skinny with cooking curse

Actress Keira Knightley stays skinny with cooking curse. Photo/AP

Keira Knightley is known for her slender frame, long body and toned abs, but the Atonement actress has confessed recently that she's cursed as a cook.

"I am not the best cook in the world. I have tried but I really am hopeless. I can cook maybe one dish," she told Contactmusic.com. "But even then, if you ate it you'd probably end up with food poisoning. This is why I will ask Santa for some easy-to-understand cook books."

Last summer, the 24-year-old actress came under media fire for allegations of anorexia but her mother, Sharman Macdonald, told the Times the girl's an eater.

"She eats like a horse," Macdonald told the press in her daughter's health defense. "I always want to apologize because she can eat anything that she wants and she does not put on weight.”

But despite her cooking curse or linked diets like the lunchbox diet, Knightley has stated that her body has always been of the smaller size and she has movies to prove it.

"Anybody with an ounce of intelligence would say that too much emphasis is put on weight," she said in a past interview. "I’ve been on the screen since the age of seven and you can see what my body type is if you want to."

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