I remember being a magazine worshiping 5th grader when the movie Catwalk came out. It was a documentary that followed the exceptionally poised Christy Turlington through the spring fashion shows in Milan, Paris, and New York in the early 90’s. The particular magazine I worshiped was calledTop Model, a glossy that was stocked on Wal-Mart magazine shelves back when models were still prominently presented on covers and advertising campaigns instead of the sparkly, party-thin celebrities that gobbled up the space in the early 2000’s. Recently, a friend and I were pondering whether or not people were once again interested in models as a celebrity sub-culture. Were people outside of the fashion industry referencing them in first person—Anja, Kate, Lily—like fashion peeps were apt to do? Sites like Modelinia are shedding light on today’s model culture, models have become vocal about weight issues in fashion rags and in documentaries like Sara Ziff's Picture Me, and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Editions are selling like hot cakes. But whether or not people are interested in models—in what they are reading, their favorite foods, and where they are shopping—the same way they were in the early 90’s, they certainly are interested in their weight, especially thanks to recent photoshopping controversies, Italian BMI-banned waifs, and Prada taking a sorry stab at putting ‘curvy’ models in the spotlight. Now it seems that models are proudly admitting that they do have to work for their bodies, jumping on the ‘love my curves’ bandwagon—however minute those curves may be— and divulging their extensive workout regimens and carb-cutting habits. And that's something the lady folk just happen to be very interested in. (Try Googling 'Gisele Baby Weight, mmkay?) Just in time for a beach weekend, here are some recent disclosures from treadmill-addicted models.

Daniella Sarahyba: Walking, Yoga, Carb-Cutting “The key for me is keeping the workouts fun and flexible,” the 22 year old Sports Illustrated Swimsuit vet Daniella Sarahyba tells iFit and Healthy. “With all the traveling I do, it’s very hard to have a regular workout routine, so I try to do activities like walking and yoga that I can do almost anywhere when I have the time.”As far as eating goes, Daniella is serious about watching what she eats and readily admits it takes focus to maintain a healthy diet. “When I’m in Brazil, I drink coconut water, because people say it’s good for the skin. I generally try to eat a healthy diet, and one thing I’m really careful about is not eating carbohydrates at dinner. It’s too late, and I never feel good the next day if I do that.”

Gisele Bunchen: Mixed Workouts, Kung Fu, Yoga, Mindful Eating Leandro Carvalho, an Equinox trainer who specializes in the Brazilian Body Sculpting fitness methods, admits to the Boston Herald that GB used to train with him on his Brazilian Body Surf workout in the pool, something he describes as a “very athletic regimen of running, jumping and water-resistance training.” She also famously told Vogue that she took fitness seriously during her pregnancy, “I did Kung Fu up until two weeks before Benjamin was born, and yoga three days a week. I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals.”

A few years ago, Gisele went through a phase where she was treating her body poorly. In 2009, she told Harper’s Bazaar, “I was drinking a lot of red wine, smoking a pack and a half of cigarettes a day, and eating cheeseburgers all day. I was treating my body, which is my temple and my best friend, as my worst enemy. I was almost punishing myself. I was so tired. I was working so much, and I was numb.” She’s since become more mindful of her health, eating chicken and salads, and drinking water more frequently.

Eniko Mihalik: Walking, Light Weights The Hungarian bow-lipped beauty recently told the Daily Telebraph, "I can’t work out too much because after two weeks I look like I’ve been training for a year. My new thing is to walk on the treadmill while boxing with light weights, listening to fast music. It looks funny but it works.”

Anja Rubik: Yoga Though her life is mostly divided between cramped airplanes and catwalking, she says that her workout routine helps her do better with both. She told Vogue, "I've been practicing yoga for three years. It helps me relax mentally and focuses my mind. It can also do amazing things physically; it keeps me fit and helps my balance and focus. My job involves a lot of sitting on airplanes and a lot of walking in high heels! I find yoga helps with both." She’s also admitted to Model Observer, “I try to eat healthy and more often but smaller portions. I do my best to avoid eating dairy and mixing fruit with dairy. I drink a lot of water and green tea.”

Doutzen Kroes: Weight Training, Cheese & Chocolate Diet One model who's been an advocate for changing the current catwalk body type is proud of her ripped physique, and isn’t concerned with not fitting the cookie-cutter mold. She’s spoken out against the rigidness of the fashion industry, saying, “I got rejected (from the Gucci shows) because I was too fat! Gucci likes slim girls only." Kroes was recently a speaker at the CFDA’s “The Beauty of Health: Resizing the Sample Size,” held at Milk Studios in Manhattan, where she said, “We had what we called an ‘ass meeting’ with my agent. I chose to have a healthy lifestyle and work around that.” The Dutch model has since focused on staying fit and toned, telling Celebrity Health & Fitness, “Many personal trainers say that the most effective way to lose the last few inches of fat off the body is to tone and strengthen the muscles. Not only will you be burning off more calories every day with this extra muscle but also you will be standing more confidently and you will feel stronger. In any case you can always stop doing weight workouts if you think you are becoming too muscular.” She eats what she likes, in moderation, citing cheese, chocolate and bread to be her favorite regular indulgences.