Bruce Springsteen, Chris Martin and More Stars Who Only Eat 1 Meal a Day

Stars like Bruce Springsteen, Chris Martin and Naomi Campbell have opened up about the extreme dietary regimen keeping them in shape, and it consists of eating only one meal a day, otherwise known as the OMAD diet.

A form of intermittent fasting, which involves going without food for a period of time, the OMAD diet involves a person consuming all of their daily calories in one meal per 24 hour period.

NYC-based dietitian Keri Glassman told Us Weekly in 2019 that “intermittent fasting works,” but “that doesn’t mean that I would necessarily recommend it for everyone.” She explained, “For most people, you’re restricting calories and largely cutting out food you shouldn’t be eating anyway.”

In general, intermittent fasting “requires regimented commitment,” according to Glassman, and dieting methods like this work best when the person is already a healthy eater who doesn’t mind skipping breakfast.

Keep scrolling to read more about celebrities who have tried the OMAD diet:

Naomi Campbell

Speaking with The U.S. Sun in 2020, the supermodel shared that she typically only has one meal every day. “I eat my lunch. Lunch is my dinner, because I really only eat once a day,” she said at the time. She added, “Sunday is my treat, so I’ll make desserts, my cakes and puddings,” but noted that she keeps a gluten- and dairy-free diet, even when it comes to her sweet treats.

Campbell is no stranger to fasting, previously sharing that she once consumed nothing but fruit and vegetables for 10 days leading up to a fashion show in 2013. “I eat when I feel like it and I don’t starve myself,” she said. “If I want to do a day of just not eating, I do it and just do water or juice.”

Bruce Springsteen

“The Boss” admitted to eating only one full meal a day in an October 2024 interview with The Times. “I’ll have a bit of fruit in the morning and then I’ll have dinner,” said Springsteen. “That has kept me lean and mean.”

Springsteen has been open about staying healthy enough to perform well into his 70s, saying on an episode of the “Beyond the Influence” podcast in November 2022, “The biggest thing is diet, diet, diet.”

“I don’t eat too much, and I don’t eat bad food, except for every once in a while when I want to have some fun for myself,” he said. “So I think anybody that’s trying to get in shape, exercise is always important of course, but diet is 90% of the game.”

Chris Martin

Taking a page out of Springsteen’s book, the Coldplay frontman shared in a March 2023 episode of “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” that he had started eating once a day.

“I actually don’t have dinner anymore. I stop eating at 4 [p.m.] and I learned that from having lunch with Bruce Springsteen,” said Martin. “I was lucky enough to go over there to lunch the day after we played Philadelphia last year. I was on a really strict diet anyway. But I was like, ‘Bruce looks even more in shape than me.’”

Martin shared that it was Springsteen’s wife, Patti Scialfa, who spilled the beans about the rock star “eating one meal a day.” The “Yellow” singer said, “I was like, ‘Well, there we go. That’s my next challenge,’” before joking that Springsteen’s meal consists of a “flank of buffalo with a steroid sauce.”

Jack Dorsey

Dorsey, former CEO of Twitter, told Wired in a January 2020 interview that he only eats once a day at dinnertime as part of his intermittent fasting regimen, which he said at the time made him feel “so much more focused.”

During a March 2019 episode of the “Fitness: Diet, Fat Loss and Performance” podcast, he said of his lifestyle, “You have this very focused point of mind in terms of this drive. The time back from breakfast and lunch allowed me to focus more on what my day is.”