Beyonce explains tomato and cucumber meals

Beyonce Knowles has revealed the extraordinary lengths she goes to in order to maintain her figure.

The Destiny’s Child star sits down to a lunch of six slices of tomato and four slices of cucumber – and nothing else.

“I have to,” she admitted. “Photos make you fatter, television adds pounds, and discipline is very important in this profession.

“I am not naturally skinny. I am a real woman, I’ve got curves,” she told Bang magazine.

Beyonce has hired a personal nutritionist to accompany her around the world and prepare her low fat, low carbohydrate meals.

She also works out in the gym five days a week and works off the pounds with her energetic dance routines.

The 21-year-old, famed for her “bootylicious” behind, has previously admitted that she struggles to keep her weight down.

“I am a natural fat person, just dying to get out. I go through agonies to keep my stomach as flat as possible – though it is never flat enough for me,” she has said