Elsa Pataky: “Even when other people say, “Oh she’s too muscly” I always like it”

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On getting back in shape fast after having twins a year ago:

It’s definitely part genetics. I was always the little one in school,” she says. But she also happens to be mad about exercise. I mean, I love fitness, I love sports, I’ve been into it since I was 15, working my body and just building it.

On her favorite female body type – athletic:

I always admire sports bodies in women – that athletic look. Even when other people say, “Oh she’s too muscly” I always like it. I’ll never be an professional shape but I like to get as close to that as I can.

On having fitness competitions with her husband Chris Hemsworth:

He’ll hold the pads for me, although I won’t for him as he’d smash me into the wall. When he was training for Thor, he came home with this bodyfat measurer – you know, where you clip the parts where you accumulate fat? So it became a competition between us. If I had some fat somewhere I’d be like, “Grr, I’m working that part.” It’s fun, it’s just like a challenge, for no other reason that I like to challenge myself.

… says 38 year-old Elsa.

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Thanks to Skinny