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With a vegan diet, a dedication to yoga, a vocabulary salted with self-help buzzwords, and, lest we forget, a wife instead of a husband, Ellen embodies the modern version of everyone’s neighbor and friend. She is the one whose house you’d most like to drop by to catch up on the gossip, dish about reality TV, or borrow a cup of sugar. Well, maybe not sugar. At the moment, Ellen’s in search of an energy boost and has embarked on a “sugar fast” that has her going without refined or processed foods. “No cake, no cookies, no candy,” she says. She talks about retiring and doing nothing (who doesn’t dream about that?) but currently works what amounts to two fulltime jobs: hosting her own daily talk show and judging American Idol.
