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Maria Menounos Claims She Would Rather Be Punched Than Do Ab Work

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Sept. 29 2011, Published 9:04 a.m. ET

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By Leah Ornstein

Breaking Celebrity News Style & Beauty Editor

Maria Menounos may have some of the flattest abs on the beach, but that doesn’t mean that she spends her afternoon doing crunches at the gym. The television personality recently told Shape Magazine, that she owes her marvelous midsection to her father’s flat-abs secret – which is far from ordinary!

“I’d rather have people punch me than do sit ups,” she tells the fitness magazine about her unconventional tightening exercise. “Sitting there,