We are two months into the brand new year and people everywhere are starting to think about abandoning those diets they started. Cerina Vincent and Jodi Lipper suggest you don’t have to starve yourself to achieve hotness.

For a decade, Vincent has been Hollywood’s go-to hot chick, and you can bet she skipped the cheeseburgers when she starred as the naked foreign exchange student Areola throughout the comedic farce Not Another Teen Movie. Lipper is an accomplished writer and editor who spent years developing those innocuous Hallmark TV movies that your mum probably watches. Together, they’ve written a new book called How To Eat Like a Hot Chick (Harper Collins) that tells women they can (gasp!) enjoy food AND achieve a fulfilling life at the same time.

“Acting is a tough business, and to be honest, there is absolutely pressure to be perfect and look perfect, but you know what? Sometimes that’s not even enough,” Vincent said.

She said being a hot chick is not about looking like an airbrushed celebrity, getting plastic surgery, fake tans or being a size 2. Their re-definition of a Hot Chick is a confident woman who knows what she wants and knows how to get it, a woman who does not apologize for the size she is and who embraces her imperfections and knows that they add to her unique beauty.

When told that Savvy.com has a $1 Million modeling contest based on the premise that hotness goes beyond mere physical appearance, Lipper said this illustrates the core message they try to get across in their book.

“Oh, I love that you guys are doing that! Hotness definitely goes beyond looks. We all know those women who aren’t perfect looking, but just exude sex appeal and always have a gang of men trailing behind them. The key here is confidence, pure and simple. If your body language and attitude screams, ‘I am hot and I know it and I am not afraid to admit it.’ Women will want to befriend you and men will want to bed you. This is the kind of woman we should all strive to be and is how we define a Hot Chick in How to Eat Like a Hot Chick – she is a sexy, empowered, confident woman who doesn’t apologize for who she is, what size she is, or what she eats.”

Lipper said the first step to embracing one’s inner hotness is to change the way you talk to yourself. It may sound like new age nonsense, but it’s really just common sense.

“We all have a voice in our heads and for so many of us, that voice is negative and hateful. We walk around thinking, ‘I shouldn’t eat that, I shouldn’t have done that, I’m such a fat pig, what is wrong with me?’ If you do this, you are subconsciously sending the message out to the universe that there is something wrong with you for eating a cookie or pizza, and there isn’t. Just stop yourself any time you think one of these negative thoughts and say to yourself, ‘I am hot and I deserve to enjoy my body and my food.’ This will change the energy you convey, change the way people see you, and in turn eventually change the way you see yourself,” she said.

“It all goes back to self- esteem and confidence,” Vincent said. “And it’s amazing how much the power of positive thinking actually works. When you start thinking and knowing that you are hot and sexy and deserving of goodness, you suddenly start to feel hot and sexy and deserving of goodness. And when you feel it, other people start to notice it.”

They say EVERY woman can be a Hot Chick -- no matter what genetics she has or how bad her role models have been. First, they must look beyond the never-ending cycle of conflicting information.

“Women compare themselves to anorexic looking models and actors on one page of a magazine, and on the next page there is an ad for a new diet or new ridiculous fat burning pill. Women are so confused about what they are supposed to look like and so insecure about their bodies that it makes them obsess over every morsel they put into their mouths. And that is sad. In an ideal world self esteem would not be measured by a size or a body type, but by your personality, your soul, and your enthusiasm for life,” Vincent said.

Lipper agreed. “The key is to remember that we all share the same insecurities no matter what size we are. Every celebrity in Hollywood wakes up on some mornings feeling fat and ugly, so stop wasting your time trying to look like them!”

In their book, they stress that women can eat all of the foods they love and still have the body they want. The key is moderation and being smart. Eating a salad with 2,000 calories, for example, is pretty dumb.

“I want to stress the message of balance rather than punishment – you do not have to atone for your food sins by eating spinach all day after having a cookie,” Lipper said. The book provides realistic, easy to follow strategies for every food situation women will ever find themselves in. It is a funny, entertaining book with an appeal for common sense.

Vincent and Lipper met seven years ago at the gym. Each was surprised to learn they both initially felt intimidated by the other’s beauty.

“Seeing that we had the same insecurities about our bodies taught me that all women share these issues, and so it is a giant waste of time to compare ourselves to other women or beat ourselves up trying to be perfect. It was through our friendship that Cerina and I were able to get over these insecurities and start embracing our bodies.”

Embracing the bodies of hot chicks is something we wholeheartedly endorse. With consent, of course!