Lisa Rinna Forced to Stop Working Out Before Playboy Shoot

How did Lisa Rinna prep for her May issue of Playboy?

By not working out.

Rinna, 45, tells Usmagazine.com that photographer Deborah Anderson gave her the specific order.

"She knows that I`m a workout fiend and she said, `Lisa, I don`t want you to work out, and I don`t want you to starve yourself before the shoot, because I know you will,`" Rinna tells Us.

When she agreed to bare all, Rinna says she thought, "`OK, I`ve really got to limit my food intake and be really good. I`ve got to workout everyday, twice a day, like crazy.`"

But Anderson told her she didn`t want her "muscular, hard, sinewy." She needed to look "soft and beautiful," Rinna recalls.

Says the star, "At first I was like, `Oh, for...