With Sakara, I feel as though I am nourishing my body exactly how I want to, but in a way I never have time to.” “It’s hard to find the right kind of almond milk and know how to soak nuts for the perfect amount of time so that they sprout and still taste good. “It’s hard to eat this way on your own,” says gorgeous Upper East Sider Clo Cohen, a mother of two young boys who started using Sakara in November and regularly purchases their five-day meal plans. In the past few months alone, socialite Hannah Bronfman, supermodels Hilary Rhoda and Chrissy Teigen and Proenza Schouler CEO Shirley Cook have all become “Sakaralites,” as the brand’s fans are called. They shine, they glow, and that’s why it’s such a sexy brand.” She now makes her own version of Sakara’s breakfast banana-cocoa bar every morning. “When I saw pictures of the two of them and I read the blog, it made me want to be one of them,” says Emanuela de Paula, a 25-year-old professional stunner who’s walked in Victoria’s Secret shows and started using Sakara four months ago. “It’s almost like a religion,” adds the East Village resident, dressed in a Forever 21 floral jumpsuit.Īnd Tingle and DuBoise, who look straight out of Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” video, are its ministers. “We’ve been able to create this community of people who believe the same things we believe and want to live this lifestyle together,” says Tingle, who co-founded Sakara with her elementary school pal DuBoise, in 2011, with $700 they made hosting a ticketed house party. Film producer Jessica Latham (right) and actress Lena Dunham (left) tote their Sakara meals around town. The company emphasizes organic superfoods, mind-body health and a thick wallet (it can cost up to $1,390 for meals for 20-days).Įveryone from Lena Dunham, whom the paparazzi snapped carrying a Sakara bag to Taylor Swift’s pad in April, to Vogue editors and a host of fashion industry insiders are hooked on Sakara’s gluten-free dishes, which include chia-coconut protein waffles and the beloved “Youth and Beauty Salad,” made with carrots, beets, pomegranate and coconut.Įven the Sakara blog looks like a Terry Richardson reel, strewn with pics of stilettos, red-coated lips and cocktails. They need to be filling their body with food that’s going to give them energy.”ĭieting has never looked so sexy, and the Angels’ preshow rituals are trickling down to the hopeful masses who are signing up in droves for Sakara Life - the newest, chicest health craze to overtake Manhattan. “They’re athletes,” says DuBoise’s business partner, 29-year-old Whitney Tingle, of Sakara’s otherworldly clients, who sometimes opt to go grain-free when they need to debloat. (Gale, a recent convert, learned about Sakara in October while at the Aerospace boxing camp in Tulum, Mexico.) “Once Lily Aldridge told all her friends, they all tried it,” says Sakara co-founder, 28-year-old Danielle DuBoise, who counts VS stars Erin Heatherton, Alyssa Miller and Kelly Gale among loyal devotees who frequently Instagram pics of their Sakara eats. When Victoria’s Secret Angels Lily Aldridge, Karolína Kurková and their posse of leggy pals want to get into tip-top runway shape, they turn to their secret weapon: Sakara Life, a vegan, home-delivery meal service.
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