Say what you want about Twilight author Stephenie Meyer’s somewhat questionable writing skills, but it’s a non-debatable fact that writing is an occupation that demands many consecutive sedentary hours behind a keyboard. While I’m obviously no best-selling author, I can certainly identify with having to force myself to go to the gym on an almost daily basis to counteract this very same occupational hazard. So when a much slimmed-down Meyer showed up at the recent Breaking Dawn Part I premiere as well as the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre handprinting ceremony, it was impossible not to acknowledge how good she looked (even standing next to the naturally skinny Kristen Stewart):

As you can see from the comparison header photo at the top of this post, Meyer’s new silhouette differs dramatically from her 2009 and 2010 red-carpet photos. However, there was reportedly no magic pill or trendy diet for Meyer — just the boring (yet highly effective) old-fashioned combination of diet and exercise:

Twilight book author Stephenie Meyer is adored by fans for the vampire romance phenomenon she penned, but for weeks the Ministry has been admiring her new figure.

In early November, the author showed up at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood for a handprint and footprint ceremony starring Twilight Saga trio Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner — and wound up turning a few heads herself with a slimmed-down silhouette.

So how did she do it?

“Honestly, watching what she eats, and exercise,” franchise screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg told us at Monday’s Breaking Dawn premiere. “Diet and exercise. And she looks fantastic.

“You know, she had lost some weight when we filmed the wedding scene together,” Rosenberg recalled of the on-screen matrimony of Stewart and Pattinson, “but then I saw her at the Breaking Dawn junket and just thought, holy smoke.”

[From LA Times]

Good for her. Meyer probably felt a ton of pressure (as a relative civilian) to look good on the red carpet, and I do hope that she really did achieve her weight loss in the healthiest manner possible. She probably feels a lot better and has more energy now — the byproduct of which means that she’ll have more energy to write now too. That last aspect could be good or bad, but I’ll just leave that detail wide open for interpretation.

Photos courtesy of Fame and WENN

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