Maggie Q in Bathing Suit "Lounges"

Maggie Q is her own best model. The actress and swimwear designer shared a photo of one of her latest looks via Instagram, flaunting her fabulous figure in the process. “It’s lounge if you lounge in it,” she captioned the image. How does the Pivoting star, 42, look half her age? Read on to see 8 ways Maggie Q stays in shape and the photos that prove they work—and to get beach-ready yourself, don't miss these essential 30 Best-Ever Celebrity Bathing Suit Photos!

1. She May Be Skinny, But She Is Strong

Don’t be fooled by her slender physique! “My mother is Vietnamese. My father was a skinny Irishman from New York, and I’ve been an athlete my entire life,” she told Women's Health. “Don’t assume what my strengths are. It just shouldn’t be acceptable to make comments about anyone else’s body. You never know that person's story.” Maggie revealed that she has experience a lot of body shaming over the years. “When you depend on someone else's perspective, you always get judged...People think you're lucky to be skinny, so they have a license to say mean things about your body,” she said. “It used to hurt me. Now, it makes me laugh,” she said.

2. This Is How She Has Raised Her Metabolism

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Maggie maintains that she has sped up her metabolism over the years by eating a lot of food. “I've raised my metabolism by being an active person, so I need more food than most people. But people tell me that I don't eat actual food. Like, how do you think I function? I don’t put anything into my body but the air that I breathe? I can't tell you the number of people who’ve said I need to eat a cheeseburger. I’m like, really? I need to eat a cheeseburger? You can eat a cheeseburger and I'll be okay over here,” she told Women’s Health.

3. She Eats Vegan

“I don’t [call myself vegan], because it has become a weird, negative term and people feel very judged by it,” she told The Beet. “So I like plant-based better because it’s friendlier: It’s inclusive. You can’t judge people. They have to be where they’re at, and you have to accept them for where they are.”

4. She Takes Probiotics

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“I have always struggled with gut health," Maggie told Thrive magazine. "Whatever brought that on, I couldn’t say, but breaking down foods has been a challenge for me even before I knew what that challenge was.” Maggie even has her own supplement line, ActivatedYou. “I wanted to create a line of probiotics that had everything I was looking for. In my journey to improve my own health, I became extremely passionate about helping others out of the hole I was in.”

5. She Does Wheatgrass Shots

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Maggie attributes her energy to a dose of this green. "Wheatgrass. There is nothing like it," she told Thrive. "Wheatgrass (WG) is the shoot of Triticum aestivum Linn. belongs to the family Gramineae, and possess high chlorophyll content and essential vitamins, minerals, vital enzymes, amino acids, dietary fibers etc., It has been shown to possess anti-cancer, anti-ulcer, antioxidant, and anti-arthritic activity due to the presence of biologically active compounds, and minerals," says one study.

6. She Exercises

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While Maggie is a fan of Jason Walsh’s Rise Nation method and Katonah Yoga, hiking with her dogs is her favorite way to blast calories. “My rescue dogs are my life and hiking with them is probably my favorite form of exercise,” she wrote on Qeep Up's site. “We can go for hours and nothing makes them—or me—happier!”

7. Doughnuts Are Her Favorite Cheat Food

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Maggie has one sweet weakness. “If doughnuts were healthy, I'd have a strict diet of only them,” she dished to US Weekly. “I think about my next meal as my current meal is ending.”

8. She Starts Her Day with Produce

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"One thing that rarely varies is my morning," she told Veg News. Generally, her breakfast comes in the form of a produce concoction, either a shot of wheatgrass, turmeric, ginger, and lemon), a blended green juice, a smoothie, or an acai bowl.