GOSSIP: The secrets to looking like a Victoria’s Secret Angel, according to Adriana Lima

Tomorrow the Victoria’s Secret 2011 Fashion Show will be airing on CBS. It is the one night of the year, men will be willing to turn off ESPN, put down their Call of Duty game controller and sit in front of their TV alongside their lady to watch dozens of half naked women strut the runway. And while the guys are salivating, all of us ladies will be trying to figure out how many crunches we have to do to keep up. So what in the heck do these ladies do to look like THAT?!

Victoria’s Secret angel Adriana Lima came out and shared her pre-runway show diet and workout plan with the masses. But she wants us all to know she doesn’t stick to her pre-show liquid diet and twice-daily workouts routine year-round…thank GOD.

“Everybody is talking about my crazy diet,” she told me backstage this morning as she got glammed for tonight’s catwalk.

The supermodel and hot mom recently admitted she sticks to liquids only ninedays before the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show and stops drinking water for 12 hours before she hits the runway to drop the most weight.

But she defended the drastic measures, comparing herself to an athlete in training:

“I know it’s very intense but…I just have an athlete’s mind and I appreciate doing this thing,” she told me. “It’s not that I do crazy diets throughout the year. I just do it for this particular thing. After this show, I become normal again!”

In fact, she said she didn’t work out quite as hard she normally does this time. “This year, even though my diet was intense, I took it a little bit easier on the working out so I won’t be as muscular,” she explained.

Adriana said after she’s done strutting her stuff, she celebrates with a big dinner at her favorite restaurant, Milos, with family and friends.