She has been making every effort to embrace a healthy Hollywood lifestyle.
So the sight of Anna Friel smoking a cigarette on a photoshoot yesterday was surprising to say the least.
The former Brookside actress, who has permanently relocated to Los Angeles, recently hired a personal trainer in an effort to look the part in image-obsessed California.
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Not so healthy: Anna Friel looks striking in a floral dress but can't resist smoking a cigarette in Los Angeles yesterday during a photo shoot
Last week she was pictured jogging in the Hollywood suburbs while a personal trainer pushed her daughter along in a pram.
Yet such health awareness was nowhere to be seen yesterday as she took a furtive drag on a cigarette before posing for British Elle in Los Angeles.
Anna arrived at the shoot casually dressed, in a grey top and jeans, and was soon seen having a crafty smoke outside.
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So much for Hollywood lifestyle: A somewhat bedraggled Anna lit up prior to yesterday's photo shoot, too. She is pictured before wearing her costume
Later she emerged dressed in a floral patterned dress, with bright red shoes and artfully applied make-up.
She looked distinctly more glamorous - until she started smoking a cigarette again.
Clearly, the mother-of-two year old Gracie Ellen Mary, whose father is celebrated actor and Harry Potter star David Thewlis, 44, is struggling with some aspects of healthy living.
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Healthier living: Anna went for a jog on Valentine's Day in Los Angeles. Her daughter Gracie, two, went along too
Anna who made her name in Channel 4 soap Brookside in starring in hit show Pushing Daisies, in which she plays a murdered woman brought back to life by her childhood sweetheart.
She has been so successful in the role, that television bosses have signed her to a six-year contract.
The Rochdale-born star is said to have hired a nanny from Lancashire to ensure that Gracie will have an accent just like her own.
"I know my roots and where I'm from," she has said. "I'm northern and I always will be."
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