Roberts trained for half-marathon on movie set
Movie star JULIA ROBERTS made the most of her downtime while making new movie EAT, PRAY, LOVE - by training for a half-marathon.
The Pretty Woman star reveals her husband Danny Moder persuaded her to test herself by taking on the 13.5-mile (21.7-kilometre) charity run in California in December (09) once filming on the epic movie wrapped and Roberts was back in America five months after travelling through India, Italy and Bali.
And she admits that training in the heat of India, Bali and an Italian summer gave her an advantage.
She says, "I trained a lot while I was doing the movie and it was so hot there, I think it was to my advantage that I had trained under such dire circumstances."
Roberts admits she had a very special reason to take part in the marathon: "I just wanted to show my kids that the power of a female body is more than just giving birth, which is a great power... and my kids were out there, they made me a sign."