Minka Kelly height and health

Actress Minka Kelly from TV shows like Parenthood and Friday Night Lights, worked in the health industry as a scrub nurse, and told Men's Health magazine: "I've held several feet of colon in my hand. I could definitely sew up your leg." With her photogenic face Minka Kelly also did some modeling, before getting into acting, but could never make it big because of her height and curvy body: "I never really took the idea of me being a model seriously, because I never thought that I had the body for it. I'm five-feet-five, and I have a bubble butt and pretty big thighs. So I learned quickly just to be happy with what I've got — and make the best of it. If I'm built thick, OK, then, I'll make it strong."



Minka Kelly looks in the mirror at her stunning body, in a photo for Esquire magazine's November 2010 issue, for which she is also the cover girl. The men's mag named her "sexiest woman alive". Growing up, Minka was close to her mother Maureen: "My mom lived a fast life. It was all about what we could do to have fun with nothing. She—for most of my life, she was a dancer. An exotic dancer. She was a stripper." Apart from the lack of money, Minka also endured teasing at school where she was nicknamed Stinka Smelly. She also picked up a little kickboxing in school and tells Esquire: "I'm a very nice girl, but nobody pushes me around......that's when you'll see a whole other side of me. That's when you'll see the side that grew up in Albuquerque." After graduating from Valley High School, Albuquerque, where she studied from 1994 to 1998, Kelly moved to Los Angeles.



Left, Minka Kelly does rope jumping at a gym, with weight training in between sessions. And Minka loves running for physical and mental fitness: "I do a lot of running, which I enjoy for mental reasons, too. I'll be really frazzled and run for 30 minutes, and everything sort of seems clear again."

Kelly tells Health magazine that getting enough sleep and drinking plenty of water are the essentials of good health....as is healthy eating. "I always have a bowl of Kashi Go Lean cereal with some cut-up strawberries for breakfast. It's just the quickest, healthiest breakfast. And it fills me up."



5'5" tall Minka Kelly with 5'5" tall Leighton Meester attending the InStyle Diamond Fashion Show Preview Luncheon, at the Beverly Hills Hotel on January 10, 2008 in Beverly Hills, California. With the same height, same beautiful hair, pretty brown eyes, and cute smiles, the two lookalike actresses were picked to star together in the psychological thriller The Roommate. Right, Minka Kelly and Leighton Meester in a scene from the movie, due out in February 2011. The plot involves Meester's character imitating Minka's character down to the point of making herself look exactly like her, and so it was necessary to pick lookalike actresses for The Roommate. Leighton and Minka have been friends since 2003, when they filmed commercials for Clearsil in South Africa!