Category — Celebrity Weight Gain

This week, Jeff Bridges won a Golden Globe Award for his acting in the movie drama, Crazy Heart. In preparing for the role he didn’t have to just brush up on his music skills but he also had to put on some weight for the role as a living country legend on his last leg. He told People Magazine at last weekend’s New York Times Arts & Leisure Weekend, [Read more →]

To promote her new weight loss reality show, Carnie Wilson spoke with PIX Morning News this week about the ups and downs of weight control and her new inspirations in life. When asked if her weight struggle is the focus of the show she responded,

“With my first daughter I gained 70 pounds and with my second pregnancy it was 60. It’s gonna come off! It’s one of themes of the show but it’s not the main focus….It’s me balancing.”

In her new show, Unstapled, Carnie wants to send the message to women that life is all about balance; health, mothering and career. She wants to be a hands-on mom and she knows with time she’ll lose the post baby weight. [Read more →]

He may still have a lucrative contract with Subway sandwiches, but Jared Fogel the ‘Subway Guy’ gained a whopping 40 pounds last year. He famously lost 245 pounds by eating only Subway sandwiches but he dropped the ball this year when he quit working out and didn’t pay attention to what he was eating. He told People Magazine,

“I look at it as a little bit of a hiccup, not exercising as much as I should have and not paying attention to what I was eating.”

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Former Atomic Kitten star Kerry Katona is still battling the bulge. The poor thing just can’t seem to keep the weight off now that she has had children and has a more mature body type. Gone are the days of mini skirts and tight leggings for the blonde pop star. It was just a little over a year ago when she lost the baby weight and also spent thousands on liposuction and a breast reduction but because of financial struggles and problems with her husband she gained approximately 30 pounds. Now she’s at fat camp (as seen with her trainer in the above photo). One source said, [Read more →]

Erik Chopin was crowned the winner of Biggest Loser season 3 after losing 214 pounds. But six years later the New Yorker is getting close to his original weight before being on the show. He started off weighing 407 pounds, lost 214 pounds but now he’s back up to 368. He explained what happened,

“I came from such a high of winning then the reality sets in of not being on the show and not being accountable, then I went into the real world and it all started up again.”

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Amelle Berrabah from the girl pop group Sugababes was spotted in Barbados this week looking healthy once again. At one time, the 26-year-old was dangerously underweight (see photo on the right) and her doctor prescribed a high-calorie diet where she would need to eat every two to three hours. When asked about her weight gain she said,

“Thank god, because I looked like an anorexic rat before.”

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Who would’ve thought one of the skinniest celebrities in Britain actually wants a fuller figure? With the plus-size debate continuing not only in the United States’ magazine circles, but also across the pond in the United Kingdom, Sienna Miller is one of the latest celebrities to endorse the plus-size model.

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TV foodie Padma Lakshmi is starting to put on the baby weight and she couldn’t be happier. In an interview coming up this week with Page Six Magazine she bares everything but her belly on the cover and inside she explains how she has a healthy attitude about life and how both her body and mind are in a good place. In regard to her pregnancy she said,

“One of the reasons I think I’ve gained weight pretty quickly during my pregnancy is that I’m not exercising as much as I do normally … I can’t. I’m feeling tired, and I have this business to run.”

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Gabourey Sidibe, the 26-year-old star of the hotly anticipated movie Precious, revealed to Oprah on her show on Friday that she’s been dieting ever since she was just 6 years old.

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Taylor Lautner, the hunk-a hunk-a burnin’ love from the Twilight series is a different person since he began his work on the movies a couple of years ago. Over the past year we have chronicled his weight gain and habits such as his workout and milkshake diet. At a press conference in Beverly Hills last Friday she revealed a bit more about his new physique and the challenges he has when it comes to maintaining it. Not only does he workout at the gym five times a week but he also has to maintain a 3,200-calorie a day diet. He said,

“Everybody thinks it was the actual getting in the gym, that was easy. But the eating was pretty hard…Putting something in your mouth every two hours. And I’m busy. I’m downtown L.A going from meeting to meeting, so there’s no time for me to be eating.”

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