NZ Herald
  • Home
  • Latest news
  • Herald NOW
  • Video
  • New Zealand
  • Sport
  • World
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Podcasts
  • Quizzes
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Travel
  • Viva
  • Weather

Subscriptions

  • Herald Premium
  • Viva Premium
  • The Listener
  • BusinessDesk

Sections

  • Latest news
  • New Zealand
    • All New Zealand
    • Crime
    • Politics
    • Education
    • Open Justice
    • Scam Update
  • Herald NOW
  • On The Up
  • World
    • All World
    • Australia
    • Asia
    • UK
    • United States
    • Middle East
    • Europe
    • Pacific
  • Business
    • All Business
    • MarketsSharesCurrencyCommoditiesStock TakesCrypto
    • Markets with Madison
    • Media Insider
    • Business analysis
    • Personal financeKiwiSaverInterest ratesTaxInvestment
    • EconomyInflationGDPOfficial cash rateEmployment
    • Small business
    • Business reportsMood of the BoardroomProject AucklandSustainable business and financeCapital markets reportAgribusiness reportInfrastructure reportDynamic business
    • Deloitte Top 200 Awards
    • CompaniesAged CareAgribusinessAirlinesBanking and financeConstructionEnergyFreight and logisticsHealthcareManufacturingMedia and MarketingRetailTelecommunicationsTourism
  • Opinion
    • All Opinion
    • Analysis
    • Editorials
    • Business analysis
    • Premium opinion
    • Letters to the editor
  • Politics
  • Sport
    • All Sport
    • OlympicsParalympics
    • RugbySuper RugbyNPCAll BlacksBlack FernsRugby sevensSchool rugby
    • CricketBlack CapsWhite Ferns
    • Racing
    • NetballSilver Ferns
    • LeagueWarriorsNRL
    • FootballWellington PhoenixAuckland FCAll WhitesFootball FernsEnglish Premier League
    • GolfNZ Open
    • MotorsportFormula 1
    • Boxing
    • UFC
    • BasketballNBABreakersTall BlacksTall Ferns
    • Tennis
    • Cycling
    • Athletics
    • SailingAmerica's CupSailGP
    • Rowing
  • Lifestyle
    • All Lifestyle
    • Viva - Food, fashion & beauty
    • Society Insider
    • Royals
    • Sex & relationships
    • Food & drinkRecipesRecipe collectionsRestaurant reviewsRestaurant bookings
    • Health & wellbeing
    • Fashion & beauty
    • Pets & animals
    • The Selection - Shop the trendsShop fashionShop beautyShop entertainmentShop giftsShop home & living
    • Milford's Investing Place
  • Entertainment
    • All Entertainment
    • TV
    • MoviesMovie reviews
    • MusicMusic reviews
    • BooksBook reviews
    • Culture
    • ReviewsBook reviewsMovie reviewsMusic reviewsRestaurant reviews
  • Travel
    • All Travel
    • News
    • New ZealandNorthlandAucklandWellingtonCanterburyOtago / QueenstownNelson-TasmanBest NZ beaches
    • International travelAustraliaPacific IslandsEuropeUKUSAAfricaAsia
    • Rail holidays
    • Cruise holidays
    • Ski holidays
    • Luxury travel
    • Adventure travel
  • Kāhu Māori news
  • Environment
    • All Environment
    • Our Green Future
  • Talanoa Pacific news
  • Property
    • All Property
    • Property Insider
    • Interest rates tracker
    • Residential property listings
    • Commercial property listings
  • Health
  • Technology
    • All Technology
    • AI
    • Social media
  • Rural
    • All Rural
    • Dairy farming
    • Sheep & beef farming
    • Horticulture
    • Animal health
    • Rural business
    • Rural life
    • Rural technology
    • Opinion
    • Audio & podcasts
  • Weather forecasts
    • All Weather forecasts
    • Kaitaia
    • Whangārei
    • Dargaville
    • Auckland
    • Thames
    • Tauranga
    • Hamilton
    • Whakatāne
    • Rotorua
    • Tokoroa
    • Te Kuiti
    • Taumaranui
    • Taupō
    • Gisborne
    • New Plymouth
    • Napier
    • Hastings
    • Dannevirke
    • Whanganui
    • Palmerston North
    • Levin
    • Paraparaumu
    • Masterton
    • Wellington
    • Motueka
    • Nelson
    • Blenheim
    • Westport
    • Reefton
    • Kaikōura
    • Greymouth
    • Hokitika
    • Christchurch
    • Ashburton
    • Timaru
    • Wānaka
    • Oamaru
    • Queenstown
    • Dunedin
    • Gore
    • Invercargill
  • Meet the journalists
  • Promotions & competitions
  • OneRoof property listings
  • Driven car news

Puzzles & Quizzes

  • Puzzles
    • All Puzzles
    • Sudoku
    • Code Cracker
    • Crosswords
    • Cryptic crossword
    • Wordsearch
  • Quizzes
    • All Quizzes
    • Morning quiz
    • Afternoon quiz
    • Sports quiz

Regions

  • Northland
    • All Northland
    • Far North
    • Kaitaia
    • Kerikeri
    • Kaikohe
    • Bay of Islands
    • Whangarei
    • Dargaville
    • Kaipara
    • Mangawhai
  • Auckland
  • Waikato
    • All Waikato
    • Hamilton
    • Coromandel & Hauraki
    • Matamata & Piako
    • Cambridge
    • Te Awamutu
    • Tokoroa & South Waikato
    • Taupō & Tūrangi
  • Bay of Plenty
    • All Bay of Plenty
    • Katikati
    • Tauranga
    • Mount Maunganui
    • Pāpāmoa
    • Te Puke
    • Whakatāne
  • Rotorua
  • Hawke's Bay
    • All Hawke's Bay
    • Napier
    • Hastings
    • Havelock North
    • Central Hawke's Bay
    • Wairoa
  • Taranaki
    • All Taranaki
    • Stratford
    • New Plymouth
    • Hāwera
  • Manawatū - Whanganui
    • All Manawatū - Whanganui
    • Whanganui
    • Palmerston North
    • Manawatū
    • Tararua
    • Horowhenua
  • Wellington
    • All Wellington
    • Kapiti
    • Wairarapa
    • Upper Hutt
    • Lower Hutt
  • Nelson & Tasman
    • All Nelson & Tasman
    • Motueka
    • Nelson
    • Tasman
  • Marlborough
  • West Coast
  • Canterbury
    • All Canterbury
    • Kaikōura
    • Christchurch
    • Ashburton
    • Timaru
  • Otago
    • All Otago
    • Oamaru
    • Dunedin
    • Balclutha
    • Alexandra
    • Queenstown
    • Wanaka
  • Southland
    • All Southland
    • Invercargill
    • Gore
    • Stewart Island
  • Gisborne

Media

  • Video
    • All Video
    • NZ news video
    • Herald NOW
    • Business news video
    • Politics news video
    • Sport video
    • World news video
    • Lifestyle video
    • Entertainment video
    • Travel video
    • Markets with Madison
    • Kea Kids news
  • Podcasts
    • All Podcasts
    • The Front Page
    • On the Tiles
    • Ask me Anything
    • The Little Things
  • Cartoons
  • Photo galleries
  • Today's Paper - E-editions
  • Photo sales
  • Classifieds

NZME Network

  • Advertise with NZME
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • BusinessDesk
  • Newstalk ZB
  • Sunlive
  • ZM
  • The Hits
  • Coast
  • Radio Hauraki
  • The Alternative Commentary Collective
  • Gold
  • Flava
  • iHeart Radio
  • Hokonui
  • Radio Wanaka
  • iHeartCountry New Zealand
  • Restaurant Hub
  • NZME Events

SubscribeSign In
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Home / Lifestyle

How today's stars want us to envy them

By Claudia Connell
Daily Mail·
28 Jun, 2015 03:00 AM5 mins to read

Subscribe to listen

Access to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.
Already a subscriber?  Sign in here

Listening to articles is free for open-access content—explore other articles or learn more about text-to-speech.
‌
Save

    Share this article

When it comes to holidays, it seems celebs just can't resist rubbing our noses in it. Photos / Instagram

When it comes to holidays, it seems celebs just can't resist rubbing our noses in it. Photos / Instagram

Thanks to the rise in social media sites such as Twitter and Instagram, it's never been easier - or more popular - for celebrities to brag about their lavish, pampered lifestyles and fabulously toned bodies.

And, when it comes to holidays, they just can't resist rubbing our noses in it. Not so much a case of 'Wish you were here?' as 'Wish you were me?' We have supermodel Elle 'The Body' Macpherson to thank for starting the whole 'My Perfect Holiday' craze on social media. Last year, the 51-year-old supermodel posted a snap of herself on a yacht in Sardinia, sipping a smoothie with the caption "Super greens after super swim", making us all feel super sick with envy. Since then, the internet has been awash with 'perfect bodies' on holiday.

Super greens... After super swim. 💚 pic.twitter.com/pl7HbKOFDe

— Elle Macpherson (@ellemacpherson) July 15, 2014

We take a look at some of the most recent oh-so-smug pictures of the stars on their hols and discover it's a far cry from the sunburn, mosquito bites and wobbly bits the rest of us have to endure.

Rihanna

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Clad in teeny-weeny white string bikini this April, Rihanna enjoys a holiday on her native Barbados, where she keeps a villa and regularly charters 'party yachts' for her friends and herself. The charmingly titled Bitch Better Have My Money is her latest song. With a net worth of £100 million, she's got more than enough to keep herself in regular Caribbean jaunts.

Kate Hudson

"When In Greece..." wrote the American actress, who was on holiday in Skiathos with her mother Goldie Hawn last week. But, in this case, she wasn't referring to protesting in the streets about the nation's austerity measures. No, she just meant lying by a pool at her five-star resort in a nude-coloured bikini, belly chain and designer glasses.

Gisele Bundchen

Cross-legged in a Costa Rican swamp last month, contemplating her navel, the former supermodel wrote: "To live in harmony with nature, we need to have awareness of each action we take. It  starts with individual initiative that can lead to collective power... and make the exponential impact on our world!".

Lady Gaga

With a beach all to herself in the Bahamas this month, the famously barmy Gagaloo took the opportunity to Tweet a picture of herself draped seductively around a palm tree as the balmy breeze ruffled her extensions.

Beyonce

Her 38 million Instagram followers were treated to these shots of the star at the Four Seasons hotel in Hualalai in April wearing a skimpy crochet bikini, bling-tastic jewellery and outsize Fedora. An ocean-front villa there costs £9,000 a night - that's a lifetime's worth  of holidays for some of us.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Poppy Delevingne

Proving it's not just her bushy-eyebrowed younger sister Cara who  likes to pull silly faces in photographs. Here, Poppy says she is "tasting the rainbow" as she poses in a skimpy bikini while on holiday on Corfu. "Don't hate me," she wrote earlier while posting a picture of her villa overlooking a turquoise ocean. No promises, Poppy.

Paris Hilton

One of the perks of being a stinking rich heiress is that life is one long holiday. Paris Hilton's Instagram page is full of snaps of her on various jaunts. "Life is beautiful," she posted this month from her chartered yacht off Ibiza, complete with hot tub. It is - for some.

Nicole Scherzinger

As bronzed as a freshly barbecued chicken, Nicole demonstrates the art of holiday posing in this snap from the Coachella festival in California in April. Stomach in, boobs out, toes pointed, hair tumbling and  pulling a duck face pout, no doubt to show on-off boyfriend Lewis Hamilton what he's missing.

Miranda Kerr

What most women wouldn't give to look like this in their beach snaps. Not a spare tyre or ounce of cellulite in sight. The Australian model is often seen in pristine beach scenes when shooting promos for her range  of organic skin care.

Discover more

Lifestyle

Ten things we never post on Instagram

04 Jun 11:25 PM
Lifestyle

You've never seen this Tyra

18 Jun 11:03 PM
Lifestyle

How to be Instagram popular

19 Jun 08:42 PM
Lifestyle

Online makeup craze explained

26 Jun 03:05 AM

Millie Mackintosh

When she's not photographing her food, workouts and famous thigh gap, former Made In Chelsea star Millie likes to sun herself on endless holidays and fitness bootcamps. Here she is in Ibiza in April preparing for another day of gruelling yoga, massage and food photography.

Kelly Brook

One glimpse at her Instagram page reveals that model Kelly is on holiday more than she is at home. "First dip of the day," she wrote as she ventured  into the sea in Bodrum, Turkey, last month.

Ella Woodward

The food writer does star jumps on a Brazilian beach as she tells Instagram followers about an exciting new fitness project. No 99 ice creams for her then.

- Daily Mail

Save

    Share this article

Latest from Lifestyle

Premium
Lifestyle

Exactly what long car journeys do to your body

18 Jun 08:00 PM
Royals

Princess Kate unexpectedly cancels appearance at Royal Ascot

18 Jun 06:57 PM
Premium
Lifestyle

Society Insider: Property titan’s luxury car storage club; Eric Watson’s son launches MDMA business

18 Jun 05:00 PM

Sponsored: Embrace the senses

sponsored
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Latest from Lifestyle

Premium
Exactly what long car journeys do to your body

Exactly what long car journeys do to your body

18 Jun 08:00 PM

Telegraph: The science behind road trip fatigue and how to combat it.

Princess Kate unexpectedly cancels appearance at Royal Ascot

Princess Kate unexpectedly cancels appearance at Royal Ascot

18 Jun 06:57 PM
Premium
Society Insider: Property titan’s luxury car storage club; Eric Watson’s son launches MDMA business

Society Insider: Property titan’s luxury car storage club; Eric Watson’s son launches MDMA business

18 Jun 05:00 PM
Watch: Monteith’s Wild Food Challenge final returns to Auckland after 11 year hiatus

Watch: Monteith’s Wild Food Challenge final returns to Auckland after 11 year hiatus

18 Jun 06:32 AM
Help for those helping hardest-hit
sponsored

Help for those helping hardest-hit

NZ Herald
  • About NZ Herald
  • Meet the journalists
  • Newsletters
  • Classifieds
  • Help & support
  • Contact us
  • House rules
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of use
  • Competition terms & conditions
  • Our use of AI
Subscriber Services
  • NZ Herald e-editions
  • Daily puzzles & quizzes
  • Manage your digital subscription
  • Manage your print subscription
  • Subscribe to the NZ Herald newspaper
  • Subscribe to Herald Premium
  • Gift a subscription
  • Subscriber FAQs
  • Subscription terms & conditions
  • Promotions and subscriber benefits
NZME Network
  • The New Zealand Herald
  • The Northland Age
  • The Northern Advocate
  • Waikato Herald
  • Bay of Plenty Times
  • Rotorua Daily Post
  • Hawke's Bay Today
  • Whanganui Chronicle
  • Viva
  • NZ Listener
  • Newstalk ZB
  • BusinessDesk
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • iHeart Radio
  • Restaurant Hub
NZME
  • About NZME
  • NZME careers
  • Advertise with NZME
  • Digital self-service advertising
  • Book your classified ad
  • Photo sales
  • NZME Events
  • © Copyright 2025 NZME Publishing Limited
TOP