The adorable star of Grey’s Anatomy, Ellen Pompeo gave birth to her first child last September. Unlike most women, Ellen loved the pregnancy weight gain because she’s normally too thin and has to work hard at keeping up a healthy weight. In a recent interview she said,

“I went up a pants size during my pregnancy. I was in size 25 jeans and went to 26. I gained 26 pounds.”

Even now in March she’s still 10 pounds heavier than she was before she got pregnant and she is delighted about it. She explained that before pregnancy people always told her she was too skinny and she worried she was setting a bad example for young teenage girls who thought she wasn’t eating. Little do those girls realize that the 40-year-old actress is naturally super-svelte. She said,

“Really. I don’t care if people think I’m too skinny. This is my body. If they don’t like it, screw it. [My weight] doesn’t matter to me. I have a healthy baby.”

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Host of E! News, Giuliana Rancic, has eased up on her workout routines. Now that she and husband Bill Rancic are trying to get pregnant she’s hoping to fatten up a bit to prepare for carrying a baby around for nine months. She said,

“I used to run a lot, because I loved it, but now I don’t do it as much,” she said. “I always ate healthy. Just because I have to gain weight doesn’t mean I am going to go to a drive through and pig out on fast food. I eat very clean.”

However, ever since Giuliana openend up about her struggles to get pregnant, bloggers in the celebrity world are writing insulting comments about the show host and she’s firing back. For example, Perez Hilton wrote that if she would gain weight she would get pregnant. And she also received a Google alert saying she debuted her pre-baby weight gain at the Oscar’s (pictured above).

Giuliana has tweeted in response and said that it’s hard working in such a superficial industry that is hurtful and can make a person want to cry. Unfortunately, there’s nothing she can do about it except try to ignore it. For the time being, she and hubby Bill are doing all they can to start a family.

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Jessica Simpson’s taken some heavy knocks in the media since photographs of her in those “mom jeans” were released. In a recent interview with Oprah Winfrey, Jessica revealed that she was actually a size 4 in those jeans! Because of the unfair criticism she’s received about her weight, Jessica and best friends Ken Paves and CaCee Cob are travelling the world and documenting the lengths women go to all in the name of beauty on the VH1 show The Price of Beauty.

On one trip to France, Jessica and friends met Isabelle Caro, a former model who suffers from severe anorexia. When the now-62-pound Isabelle first started modeling, she was told by a designer that she needed to lose 22 pounds, and that began her downward spiral. It got so bad that Isabelle was hospitalized a few years ago after slipping into a coma and almost dying. Because of this Isabelle trying to get a law passed in the French parliament that regulates models’ sizes, and that if you’re not at least a certain weight or size that you shouldn’t be allowed to model.

“It makes me very emotional because just the pressure that women feel to be thin or to be beautiful – the pressure that the media puts on women – is so unfair and so disgusting,” Jessica tells Oprah after watching Isabelle’s insert on the talk show.

Tiger Woods has managed to evade the press ever since news of his extra marital affairs made (and continue to make) international headlines three months ago. This week he apologized publicly during a press conference, but when he was spotted jogging the day before, it was his figure that made headlines.

The 34-year-old was nicknamed “Tubby Tiger” by the New York Post while a Faded Youth Blogger said the troubled golfer really looked fat, and hoped that Tiger’s trainer would be able to whip him back into shape.

Rick Chandler, an NBC Sports blogger, said: “I’m not saying that Tiger is in any danger of getting booted off of an airplane and his seat given to Kevin Smith [the director who was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight because he was deemed too fat]. It’s just that it’s clear there was no lock on the fridge at Gentle Path [where Woods reportedly was treated for sex addiction].”

Surprisingly enough, one of Tiger’s mistresses even made a comment to Inside Edition that he looked “bigger”.

In a previous interview with Men’s Fitness Tiger admitted that he had a problem with his weight – and it wasn’t that he had too much of it, it was because he couldn’t put it on. It looks like his personal problems are exacting a toll both mentally and physically.

Performing on stage on a regular basis is definitely one way to stay fit, but what happens when you stop? Singer Katy Perry recently admitted her fears of picking up weight once she her hectic schedule stops and she’s no longer performing.

The 25-year-old star headlined her very first world tour during 2009, only taking a break near the end of year. The ‘One of the Boys’ singer says the only reason she’s maintained her weight is because she’s still young and her metabolism is running at full pace, plus her hectic schedule keeps her really active.

“I’m kind of voluptuous and I’ve always been that way. (But) I’m young and metabolism is on my side and my schedule is so crazy that I lose weight from the intensity of it,” she told the media recently. “But if you ask me that question in five or six years and I’ll probably have a different answer for you.”

But we don’t think that’s the only reason. Previously we reported on Katy’s fondness for her jump rope workout while touring, admitting that she can sometimes go for 30 minutes without quitting. On tour she also never ate anything fried; everything was organic with grilled chicken and lots of water.

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The plus-sized model debate has been waning over the last few months, but Coco Rocha seems to have reignited it in Bryant Park this week. The size-4 model told The New York Times that she’s lost bookings for runway shows at New York Fashion Week because many of the designers say she’s too fat to fit into their clothes.

“Everybody knows that, in general, a basketball player needs to be tall and a fashion model needs to be skinny, but how skinny is too skinny?” she asked the newspaper’s fashion writer.

Coco did, however, walk the runway for Diane von Furstenberg on Sunday, but says she isn’t in demand anymore, even though she has previously worked for fashion heavyweights such as Marc Jacobs, Prada, Chanel, Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier and Louis Vuitton.

“I’ve been told to lose weight when I was really skinny,” Coco said, but then countered: “You know what, I’ve stopped caring. If I want a hamburger, I’m going to have one. No 21-year-old should be worrying about whether she fits a sample size.”

Good for you Coco.

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The weight battle for Carnie Wilson is never ending. Her ongoing struggle has included gastric bypass surgery, diets, post-prenancy plans and now after a meeting with Dr. Oz she’s discovered that her health is worse than she thought.

“I need help. Having children derailed me a bit.”

She can’t seem to lose the 61 pounds she gained while pregnant and with the fear of getting back up to her original 300 pounds she’s ready for some serious help. While on the Dr. Oz Show a couple of weeks ago he told her she is morbidly obese and prediabetic and he put her on a strict weight-loss program. Even though we don’t know what her plan is yet she did tell People Magazine that she’s lost a few pounds since the filming of the episode and she’s being realistic about her weight loss because she wants to be around for her kids. She said,

“I have to be a teacher to my daughters. Lola [her daughter] started to notice commercials on TV with people who are trying to lose weight, and she looks at me. She’s thinking about this stuff, and it’s getting to her.”

Celeb Diet Doc Says…
Carney Wilson proves that obesity is not a plumbing problem.. hence her inability to keep the weight off despite a well publicized gastric bypass. Liquid calories are especially problematic because they will lead to weight gain “bypassing” any bypass. Carnie needs to undergo behavioral change, not further surgery, and cut out the processed foods and liquid calories…

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More affectionately known as Silent Bob, director and actor Kevin Smith wasn’t silent when he was kicked off a Southwest airplane, because he was deemed too fat by the pilot. The 39-year-old voiced his outrage via a string of Twitter posts when he was asked to disembark from his flight from Oakland to Burbank after the pilot deemed him a “safety risk”. This prompted the Clerks and Mall Rats actor to post a series of updates to his more than 1.6 million followers on Twitter.

“I know I’m fat, but was Captain Leysath really justified in throwing me off a flight for which I was already seated?” he said. “Again: I’m way fat… But I’m not THERE just yet. But if I am, why wait til my bag is up, and I’m seated WITH ARM RESTS DOWN. In front of a packed plane with a bunch of folks who’d already I.d.ed me as ‘Silent Bob’,” he continued.

After getting off the plane, Kevin was offered a $100 voucher by way of apology, but he refused. He got on another flight but was less than happy. He even posted a picture of himself once seated, with his cheeks puffed up saying: “Look how fat I am on your plane! Quick! Throw me off!”

Kevin’s other posts included: “Thank God I don’t embarrass easily (bless you, JERSEY GIRL training). But I don’t sulk off either: so everyday, some new f**k-you Tweets for @SouthwestAir.” And: “The @SouthwestAir Diet. How it works: you’re publicly shamed into a slimmer figure. Crying the weight right off has never been easier!”

After he landed, he posted: “I’ve landed in Burbank. Don’t worry: wall of the plane was opened & I was airlifted out while Richard Simmons supervised.”

Southwest Airlines did however eventually apologized to Kevin via Twitter, but also blogged a longer statement explaining that the actor/director usually buys two tickets when he flies with their airline.

Last week while promoting her new reality show Unstapled, the overweight Carnie Wilson felt the need to speak out about the current tabloid obsession with Jessica Simpson’s weight. While appearing on the Dr. Oz show, she said she gets the urge to ‘throw up’ when she hears that Jessica is called fat. She said

“I think Jessica Simpson looks great, and this is why we have a serious problem. [When Jessica gets called 'fat'] it definitely contributes to the problem of weight issues and pressure that women — and now, unfortunately, young girls — feel, the pressure that they have to look a certain way.”

She also said that when the media shows that Jessica has gained for example 20 pounds it’s actually just a real world example and that even at her heaviest she’s actually the weight most women would strive to be. Essentially, Jessica is not fat and nor has she ever been.

While on the Dr. Oz show Carnie also found out that she’s pre-diabetic and that she is labeled as morbidly obese. This was a real wake-up call for Carnie and she’s now more determined than ever to lose the weight.

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Last week the world oohed and aahed at the beautiful celebrities that walked the red carpet for the 2010 Golden Globes. Of course all of the women looked fabulous but New York Times blogger Andy Port wrote an essay called, ‘Now Scrutinizing: A Rounder Golden Globes’ where she actually suggested that women such as Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson and Courtney Cox had put on some weight. She wrote,

“It’s almost criminal to name names, because the very actresses whose body-mass indexes have been the subject of endless tabloid speculation are the very ones now sporting sexier curves.”

Well, Cox’s husband, David Arquette actually responded to the article because he’s tired of the media drawing attention to the weight debate. He said,

“Who really cares? I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we’ve got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.”

How great to see celebrities getting vocal about the media, tabloids, and living under a microscope. I wish that when interviewers ask the celebrities things like, ‘So what’s your workout?’ or ‘Tell us your diet secrets,’ that they would repeat Arquette’s question, ‘Who really cares?”

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Wow, the NY Times certainly unleashed the great weight debate! Personally I think all the woman look great and don’t really know what all the fuss is about.

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