Sarah Michelle Gellar in Bathing Suit Celebrates Pal’s Birthday

Sarah Michelle Gellar is celebrating her friend’s birthday in her bathing suit! The former Buffy the Vampire Slayer star posted a photo tribute to her friend, trainer Mary Miller, in honor of her special day. One of them featured the two of them lounging on the beach in their swimsuits. “Love our adventures,” she wrote across it. How does the 44-year-old keep herself fit? Read on to see 5 ways Sarah Michelle Gellar 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 Drinks Green Juice

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Sarah recently dished to The/Thirty that she starts her day off with a coffee and some green juice. “My favorite thing is to have a green juice,” she said. “I go every weekend to the farmers market and I get fresh kale, spinach, celery, and lettuces and I blend it all together. That's my favorite thing before I work out.”

2. She Uses a Power Plate

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She also revealed her workout of choice. “I love PlateFit and the feeling of being on a Power Plate,” she said. “I love how quickly I can work out and get such a great exercise, I love Pilates because it centers me and it also strengthens my body, but I also love being outside, so swimming, hiking, anything like that is great as well.”

3. She Prioritizes Sleep

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Her number one “beauty/self-care must-have” isn’t an actual product. “It's probably sleep because I need it and I'm very cranky without it,” she revealed. "Set aside no more than eight hours for sleep. The recommended amount of sleep for a healthy adult is at least seven hours. Most people don't need more than eight hours in bed to achieve this goal," says the Mayo Clinic. "Go to bed and get up at the same time every day. Try to limit the difference in your sleep schedule on weeknights and weekends to no more than one hour. Being consistent reinforces your body's sleep-wake cycle."

4. She Doesn’t Try to Lose Weight

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“I don't believe in trying to trick your body into things,” she once told Health. “I eat healthy, I exercise, I love food—but I don't like junk food. I mean, were women. We go up by five pounds, we lose it, depending on the water, the moon, your cycle, whatever. So I just try to maintain.”

5. She Is a Fan of Cool Sculpting

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Sarah revealed to The Guardian that after welcoming her second child, she realized that diet and exercise weren’t going to dissolve her excess fat. While she wasn’t interested in going under the knife, she tried CoolSculpting and really liked it. “It was the easiest 30 minutes of my life,” she explained. “I just got to lie on a comfy table and read my book. The treatment didn’t hurt, it just felt cold for a few seconds and then I didn’t feel anything. It was very peaceful. I was just happy to have a few minutes to myself, and then I got to leave feeling better about myself – a win-win,” she continued. “I don’t weigh myself, I don’t measure myself but I could tell within a week how my clothing was feeling and fitting, how my jeans were buttoning back up. I was like, ‘I’m gonna go to the gym and work even harder now.’ It gave me my confidence back in such an easy and noninvasive way.”

Sarah Michelle Gellar still slays—this time in a swimsuit. The 44-year-old mother of two snapped a quick selfie before a beach day. “No one is full of more false hope then a parent that brings a chair to the beach. Or a book,” she wrote on Instagram, along with #weekend. “Who wrote that? Mark Twain? Dorthy Parker?” joked actress Lindsay Price, who used to star on All My Children alongside Gellar. “Anyway, I’m getting it on a T-shirt. I’ll get u one. ( Also woah),” she added with a fire emoji. So how does Gellar, currently voicing Teela on Netflix’s Masters of the Universe: Revelation, and married to Freddie Prinze Jr., stay so fit when jugging it all? Read on to see 5 ways Sarah Michelle Gellar 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 Bikini Photos!

1. She Starts Her Day With Green Juice

“My favorite thing is to have a green juice,” she told Who What Wear. “I go every weekend to the farmers market and I get fresh kale, spinach, celery, and lettuces and I blend it all together. That's my favorite thing before I work out.”

2. She Likes This Workout

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“Let's see, I love PlateFit and the feeling of being on a Power Plate,” she told WhoWhatWear. “I love how quickly I can work out and get such a great exercise, I love Pilates because it centers me and it also strengthens my body, but I also love being outside, so swimming, hiking, anything like that is great as well.”

3. She’s a Cookbook Author

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Gellar wrote a cookbook, Stirring Up Fun with Food, with healthy spins on the indulgences she loves, like asparagus fries and cheese muffins. "I've always been a crafty person," she says, "but with food, my expertise has always been in the eating department rather than the cooking department. Still, when I started to experiment, I realized there were all these new ways to merge the things that I loved,” she told Tasting Table.

4. She’s Not Afraid of Indulgences

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I love dessert, I'm not afraid to love dessert," she told Well+Good. "I think we all should have beautiful, sweet things. I've never believed in cutting all that out." "Obviously I'm known for being athletic, but I've always indulged in dessert," she says. "I would rather have one good, delicious bite of whatever that sweet thing is than a junk-filled trendy version of the opposite. It's all part of the overall holistic approach to how I take care of my body."

5. She Supports Her Friend Selma Blair

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Gellar has supported her Cruel Intentions co-star and friend Selma Blair through Blair’s multiple sclerosis diagnosis. “This is my dear friend @selmablair,” Gellar wrote on Instagram. “Last night she stood on the world stage for the first time, since being diagnosed with MS. And later this week, she is taking an even bigger step, and speaking publicly on @goodmorningamerica (with, my girl crush @robinrobertsgma ) To say I’m proud, would be a gross understatement. When I have a cold, I want to hide from the world under my covers. But not Selma. She is facing this diagnosis, the way she faces everything, with dignity, grace and head on. I know the support and encouragement that she has received on this platform has truly been a source of strength for her. This is not an easy journey, but Selma will not let this define her.”

Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar is already missing her recent vacation with her husband, actor Freddie Prinze Jr., and their two kids. Gellar posted a series of photos on Instagram of the family vacation, and one such photo featured her in a blue bathing suit. Gellar captioned the post, “Vacation photo dump (also known as me sitting at home trying not to get covid and looking longingly through pictures).” Read on to see 5 ways Sarah Michelle Gellar 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 Ziplines

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Gellar’s first Instagram post of the New Year was a video of herself ziplining on vacation. She captioned the video, “Swinging into 2022 in style (ok but maybe not gracefully).”

2. She Takes Time To Rest

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While exercise is important to Gellar, she says that she doesn’t push herself too hard, and that she makes time to rest and relax. "I do whatever I can whenever I can, but if I'm tired, it's okay to just be tired," she says to Self.

3. She Doesn’t Own A Scale

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Gellar says to Self that she doesn’t own a scale, and doesn’t live her life by obsessing over her weight. She says that she focuses on how her clothes feel on her. "You can't live your life by the scale," she explains. "We don't even have one in our house. I've never believed in them, because your weight fluctuates. It's more about how my clothing fits than a number. Besides, if you deny yourself everything because you're so focused on the mirror or the scale, then when do you get to enjoy life?"

4. She Doesn’t Have Weight Loss Secrets Or Plans

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When Health.com asked Gellar what her secret was to losing weight, the Buffy star replied that she didn’t have one. Rather, she focuses on living a healthy lifestyle and avoiding extreme weight loss methods. “I don't believe in trying to trick your body into things. I eat healthy, I exercise, I love food—but I don't like junk food. I mean, were women. We go up by five pounds, we lose it, depending on the water, the moon, your cycle, whatever. So I just try to maintain.”

5. She Inspires Herself

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Health.com also asked Gellar what famous woman’s photo she would hang up to inspire her. Gellar responded that she would put a photo of herself up. She explained, “I would never do that to myself, especially because I'm aware of the airbrushing and trainers and food programs. You have to use yourself as inspiration. I think if I were ever going to put something up, I would put a picture of myself where I was proud of my body. But I would rather not look at a picture of myself on my fridge. In fact, we have a nonmagnetic fridge.”

Sarah Michelle Gellar is channeling Barbie – in her bathing suit. The gorgeous Buffy the Vampire Slayer star shows off her forever young figure in a bright pink Barbie swimsuit in one of her latest social media posts. “I’m a Barbie girl, in a Santa world,” she captioned the Instagram snap, taken while on vacation. How does the actress make 45 look like 25? Read on for 5 ways Sarah Michelle Gellar 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 Loves Outdoor Exercise

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Sarah loves exercising outdoors, “swimming, hiking, anything like that is great,” she said in an interview. Another one of her favorite vacation workouts? Paddle Boarding. “Taking a selfie on paddle board is not easy,” she captioned a vacation snap. The American Council on Exercise (ACE) agrees that paddle boarding is great for the core and also a great form of cardio. It can burn an average of 385 calories for a 140 pound male and 436 for a female the same size, per a study conducted by Arizona State University.

2. She Drinks Veggie Juice

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Sarah starts her day with coffee and veggie juice. “My favorite thing is to have a green juice,” she told The/Thirty. “I go every weekend to the farmers market and I get fresh kale, spinach, celery, and lettuces and I blend it all together. That's my favorite thing before I work out.”

3. She Loves Power Plate and Pilates Workouts

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Sarah is one of the many stars who are obsessed with a certain vibrating workout. “I love PlateFit and the feeling of being on a Power Plate,” Gellar revealed. “I love how quickly I can work out and get such a great exercise.” Sarah also rotates other forms of fitness into her routine. “I love Pilates because it centers me and it also strengthens my body.”

4. She Makes Time for Self-Care

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Sarah prioritizes self-care. “Sometimes, I’m so tired at the end of the day I just want to go to bed, but I have to take time for myself to take a bath, read a book, or catch up with my friends so I don’t lose myself in the minutiae of the day,” she told Bustle. Sarah’s one “beauty/self-care must-have” doesn’t cost a cent. “It's probably sleep because I need it and I'm very cranky without it,” she told Health.

5. She Doesn’t Pay Attention to the Scale

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Sarah doesn’t pay attention to the numbers on the scale. “I don't believe in trying to trick your body into things,” she told Health. “I eat healthy, I exercise, I love food—but I don't like junk food. I mean, were women. We go up by five pounds, we lose it, depending on the water, the moon, your cycle, whatever. So I just try to maintain.”