Who wouldn’t want to be as twinkly-eyed, glowing-skinned and generally as full-of-beans radiant as Miranda Kerr?  Happily, you can at least fantasise about being so thanks to the Australian model’s new video-series, The Body Beautiful, for Net-a-Porter, in which she will offer us bite size helpings of life porn that teach us how to become as perfect examples of the human race, just like her. 

Fantasise, because nobody’s really going to get their inferior carcasses down to Whole Foods and whip up a smoothie as green as the envy we all feel for genetic lottery-winners are they? In the video, Kerr comments ‘When I’m travelling I just put a teaspoon of each [ingredient] into the little baggies, and then I just get the fresh, locally sourced coconuts when I’m there’, but when your locally sourced coconut generally constitutes a corner shop Bounty (the dark chocolate one for the extra anti-oxidants, obv), your chances of sticking to her sprightly routine are as slim as she is. 

That doesn’t mean Miranda’s new series isn’t amazing though – I watched this first instalment three times in a row, and even for a second, wondered in awe if I really could switch my morning routine of strong black coffee and distain for anyone who dares to use the tube at the same time as me, for Miranda’s cleansing hot water and lemon (answer: I’ll do it the day Victoria Beckham eats carbs). 

For further life-hacks via osmosis you’d be a fool not to binge on Gwyneth Paltrow’s glorious Goop, another oracle of outrageous advice such as getting bespoke dinner-party menus designed and printed, stuffing baked potatoes with caviar or ‘editing’ a The Row blazer (RRP: £890) out of your wardrobe. But don’t you feel a bit more good-at-life just by reading this fantastical glimpse into the life of someone for whom a treat is a cigarette a week rather than a gin a day?

Similarly, a scan of Lauren Conrad’s time vortex of tips, which include ‘three reasons why lemon water rocks’ (it’s cleansing! It’s energising! It’s good for digestion! [aren't these all the same reason?]), an in-flight skincare routine more advanced than ‘don’t get plane-food all over it’, how not to commit 'carbicide', or ‘how to translate trends for the workplace’, will leave you feeling as perky as Lauren’s writing style, ‘ladies’. 

So thank you goodness-gurus Miranda et al – we might not improve our bodies by following your advice, but passively absorbing it certainly is good for the soul.