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A-list Celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow might look like they have the perfect jiggle-free body, but they actually get a little extra help by sporting Spanx. We have the dish on which Sweet Stars have admitted to rocking the tummy-tucking, hip-hugging, love handle-hiding shapewear.

That women will stop at nothing to artificially achieve the perfect silhouette is not breaking news. How they do it, however, is ever-changing. In the past, undergarments did the bulk of the work, from whale-bone corsets to Real Housewives-designed faux Spanx. Women's waists have been nipped, tucked, and cinched underneath their clothes in every which way. But now, thanks to a slew of optical-illusion dresses hitting red carpets and runways, the dresses are drawing the curves.