Category — Ricki Lake

After a year of reviewing celebs and their diets, I felt it was high time to give my take on the best and the worst in celebrity diets for 2007. This year’s crop of celebrity diets proves the adage “you are what you eat.” Diets full of fruits and veggies have helped trim down Hollywood’s biggest “losers.” This “best” list of celebs also shows that you don’t have to knock yourself out at the gym to get fabulous. This year it’s all about healthy lifestyle activities with Ricki Lake, Andrea Baptiste and Lenny Clarke getting active by walking, hiking and biking.

Brittany Spears, Beyonce and Ashanti top the worst list by resorting to quick fix weight loss schemes. Diet pills and fasting “detox” diets only give dieters false hope, resulting in rebounding weight and yo-yo dieting. Under the body-conscious spotlight of the media, this list proves that eating well and creating a healthy lifestyle are the best revenge. [Read more →]

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Ricki Lake’s remarkable weight loss is making headlines again in this week’s issue of Ok Magazine, to help publicize the premiere of her Lifetime movie, Matters of Life and Dating. If you recall Ricki was profiled on the US magazine front cover a couple months ago. At her heaviest she weighed 260 pounds in 1991, and had been on a slew of diets including South Beach, the Zone, Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, Atkins and the Master Cleanse. She got serious this time around on February 2 of this year in preparation for the premiere of her documentary, The Business of Being Born, at the Tribecca Film Festival. [Read more →]

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Ryan Phillipe is a man with a diet plan. After splitting with Reese Witherspoon, the actor has been losing some lbs with a food delivery service according to Us Weekly mag. Just 3 weeks on his new diet, it sounds like it’s part of his plan to get in shape for upcoming roles in Last Battle Dreamer and the 2008 drama, Franklyn. [Read more →]

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Janet Jackson’s weight loss struggles are infamous. She revealed at the Hollywood premier of Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married? that she will be writing a book detailing her struggles with weight and yo-yo dieting. She says,

“I’m really coming from the soul with it, and what I was going through at different times in my life and what possibly brought it about for myself”

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Ricki Lake, best known for her role on Hairspray and as a talk show host (Ricki Lake show), is on the cover of this month’s US magazine and looks great! Now weighing in at a svelte 123 lbs, she lost over half her body weight from her heaviest of 250 lbs in 1991. How did she do it? [Read more →]

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