In fact, she had to sacrifice dinner so she could make an eye-pooping appearance in her itsy-bitsy orange costume in Cocktail.

More recently, Sonal Chauhan went on a pineapple diet so she could slip into the red-hot Shivan & Narresh bikini for her new film 3G.

Now that's a lot of hard work, and gnawing hunger pangs, for a few minutes in a two-piece.

So we thought we'd give these stars some more screen time by looking back at some of the best bikini bods we've seen in recent times.

In picture: Sonal Chauhan's pineapple diet paid off and she looks nothing like the fruit in this shot from 3G!

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