Star body secrets

The actress wowed onlookers in Costa Rica

TAKING A BREAK FROM filming upcoming Quentin Tarantino mystery, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Margot Robbie turned heads while enjoying the Costa Rican sun alongside husband Tom Ackerley on July 18.

The 28-year-old actress showed off her enviable physique in a backless, black one-piece swimsuit and gold jewellery.

Robbie’s trainer, Andie Hecker, opened up about getting the actress into peak shape. During their sessions, Hecker revealed Robbie would sculpt and tone up with a combination of Pilates, ballet and other cardio.

“We mix in non-bulking cardio such as jump rope, rebounder and ballet jumps – which are surprisingly the most challenging form of cardio I’ve ever come across,” the celebrity trainer tells WHO.

Before her role as Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad, Robbie had to spend up to three hours a day, most days of the week at the gym. A mixture of “heavy-weighted, low reps of arabesque pulls hooked up to resistance pulleys, as well as arabesque lifts with heavy ankle weights in order to build and lift the butt,” were undertaken to achieve Robbie’s toned physique.

“We also did a ton of side series outer thigh work, targeting outer glutes with high reps and low weights, to pull those muscles in and create a beautiful line from the waist to the upper thigh,” Hecker tells WHO.

Robbie’s low-key beach trip is one of the rare occasions that she has been spotted out with her husband Tom, also 28. It’s been almost two years since the couple tied the knot in an intimate Byron Bay ceremony and Robbie admits they’re still enjoying the honeymoon phase. “We were best friends and we were roommates,” she told WHO “and now we are married and are best friends and roommates.”

After purchasing a production company together called Luckychap Entertainment in 2017, the loved-up duo has worked on multiple films as partners. “Both Tom and I are very career driven right now and we just want to build the best company we can build,” she says.

Despite working alongside each other all day, when quizzed about how their relationship works, Robbie maintains both she and Ackerley are relaxed personalities who don’t feel the need to bicker. “We don’t really fight. I know that sounds weird. Not really. We are not people who like conflict and we don’t really need to yell at each other to know that we love each other,” she tells WHO.

“It’s pretty chilled in our house and we get along really well,” she continues. “We both work together and we are both producers on [ I,tonya]. Not even that made us have a fight. So yeah, I think if you can get through producing a film together, everything else is kind of simple and straightforward.”

While Robbie is now based in Los Angeles for work, the Australian-born Oscar-nominated actress admits that she yearns to spend more time with her loved ones down under.

“I don’t ever really call LA home though even though I currently have my belongings here. I don’t really refer to it as home. I always refer to Australia as home,” she says.

Robbie, who grew up in Queensland, refuses to let her long-term friendships go astray—as her network of friends are often her biggest support networks. “I have a huge group of girlfriends from back home and we’ve been best friends since we were 5 years old. We do everything together … I am not like a lone wolf at all and I hate being alone. I guess I have so many good friends.” •