Tag — Celebrity Weight

Country music singing sensation Carrie Underwood is fit and healthy. In the past she has revealed her diet and exercise habits in magazine interviews but this time she tells a little bit more about her struggles with weight over the years. In a radio interview over the weekend in Ontario she said that it’s in her genes and it’s hard to keep the weight off. After highschool she gained 10 pounds, then gained 10 more while on the American Idol series. She ended up weighing 130 pounds but being only 5-feet 3-inches tall she didn’t think that was good for her small frame. She said, [Read more →]

Alexandra Burke, the former X-Factor winner and now Simon Cowell’s pet has trimmed down over the past year. During the show in 2008 she wore a size 12 to 14 but now she’s down to a size 10 admitting that she worries a lot about her weight. But even though she worries she strives to be body confident and in her latest music video she allowed herself to show a little skin and she used plus-sized girls in the video claiming that they were ‘hot.’ She said, [Read more →]

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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Trust the Australians to spoil Christmas with talk of how bad a role model Santa Claus is. Just because he’s portly, drinks a lot of eggnog and then sleds around the world doesn’t mean every kid who believes in him will follow his example!

Australian researchers from Monash University have published a study in the British Medical Journal that says Santa may influence children towards unhealthy behavior, and that countries whose kids are encouraged to believe in him are also the countries with the highest rates of obesity. Personally I think that’s a bit of a stretch, but hey, they did the research. [Read more →]

Just when you thought the Photoshop debacle was dying down, Ralph Lauren is finding itself in even more hot water. Reports have surfaced that the American clothing brand has fired one of their models for being too fat.

A few weeks ago Filippa Hamilton and the brand were at the center of media attention when a severely Photoshopped picture was leaked, depicting a gaunt Filippa whose head appeared larger than her waist!

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Gabby Sidibe is the breakout star of the movie Precious, where she plays the role of an obese, abused, 16-year-old. The actress, who is actually 26 years old, has all of Hollywood talking because of her moving and primal performance,  but what most of us don’t know is that her true character is a 180-degree turn in comparison to her character in the movie. The director of the film, Lee Daniels, said that Sidibe had to ‘unwork’ all of her natural confidence in order to star in a role that required her to be shy, abused and fearful. Daniels also added,

“She is unequivocally comfortable in her body, in a very bizarre way. Either she’s in a state of denial or she’s so elevated that she’s on another level,” he says. “I had no doubt in my mind that she had four or five boyfriends, easily.”

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Jenny McCarthy visited the Today Show this week and had a quick chat with Hoda and Kathie Lee and revealed that Jenny is on this cover of Weight Watchers magazine.  Seven years ago Jenny weighed over 200 pounds after the birth of her son but she lost the weight with Weight Watchers and she is now one of their ambassadors.  When Hoda asked her about her weight Jenny responded,

“Well, I’m normal I would call it, for LA,” she said, “5′6,” 125 pounds.”

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Wendy Williams, host of the talk show The Wendy Williams Show, got quite a bit emotional when she was interviewing an audience member yesterday. Practically breaking down on national television, Williams admitted how hard she’s had to and continues to struggle maintaining her weight.

“I grew up a fat kid. I grew up taller, fatter, blacker, and it really knocked my self confidence,” the 45-year-old TV personality, radio host and best-selling author said. “Every morning that I wake up, the first I think about is, ‘What am I going to dodge today? What am I going to eat or not eat today’.”

When it comes to your weight, how emotional do you get?

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Mischa Barton has been told to lose weight by her producers. The 23-year-old star of the new hit TV show, The Beautiful Life, was “shocked to tears” when she was told to 10 pounds to be able to play her role as a model, believably.

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