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How Do Stars Magically Make Baby Weight Disappear? Money, Insanity, And Tons Of Booze
Posted by Molly Friedman at 8:50 AM on July 2, 2008
This probably won't come as a surprise to anyone who witnessed her seemingly hating every minute she spent pregnant, but new mum Jessica Alba has joined that elite niche of stars who lost all their baby weight at insanely rapid speeds. But the methods some celebrities have confessed to using when it comes to accelerating the path towards reclaiming their old figures don't sound entirely sane. From suffering through cabbage soup diets to dropping $50,000 on gym equipment in an effort to slim down at paces up to 14 days after giving birth, the likes of Jennifer Lopez, Gwyneth Paltrow, Nicole Richie and others have some highly unique and scary track records. Which stars drunk themselves into wine-induced oblivion and trusted online blood tests to reach their goals, after the jump.
Nicole Richie was back to her old uber-thin self just two weeks after Harlow graced us with her presence earlier this year, and Jamie Pressly openly admitted to losing 42 pounds in 12 weeks by "only eating cabbage soup." The rest?
After having Moses, the current nudie pic exhibitionist says she makes sure all those pounds which initially "horrified" her remain at bay due to her after-hours habit of downing red wine and passing out in the garden. Who has time to eat when you're unconscious? Hubbard Formula aficionado Leah Remini claims to have lost a whopping 80 pounds in only six weeks after ordering something eerily called the 1st Personal Diet. Remini told TV Guide, "It's determined by the metabolic rate of your blood, and then they send you a diet on your e-mail." Why hasn't anyone informed Oprah of her computer's flesh-zapping knowledge?
Jennifer Lopez made a public appearance looking just like J. Lo circa Diddy only a month after popping those expensive twins out, and reportedly managed the vanishing act by shelling out $50k on a home gym, not to mention hiring a team of trainers, nutritionists and Baby Weight Loss experts to presumably make sure she never once stopped exercising. Finally, Gwen Stefani candidly told Elle that she was utterly obsessed with getting her figure back after little Kingston arrived. The only celebrity to go ahead and admit that the ways stars do it is just a bit horrifying, Stefani said she was so adamant about the process that she was still exercising two weeks before giving birth. And cried about it. Live and learn.
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CluelessElaineLui
Posted 9:41 AM 2/7/08
Oh please, Alba didn't gain that much during her pregnancy. In that picture she looks pretty much the same sans baby belly. She kept herself pretty fit all through her pregnancy. She had a good idea of how to treat her body while pregnant.
I hear Gwen is already whining about pressures of losing the baby weight, maybe, if you do a few exercises while still pregnant, you won't need to work so hard after the baby comes.
The shifting of the baby weight is another means of publicity hounding for some celebs. Most of them actually don't look that big during their pregnancies so apart from the excess baby belly, what on earth are they crying about?
CluelessElaineLui
kookla
Posted 9:12 AM 2/7/08
Not to mention you can lose approximately 7 pounds immediately upon giving birth when you hand the kid off to your handlers, so you can go off to a 8 week spa retreat in the Bahamas equipped with an organic chef, personal trainer and masseuse.
kookla
Scoregasm
Posted 9:09 AM 2/7/08
Highly unique methods? Pshaw. Let me know when they start wrapping themselves in Saran Wrap and lettuce and inducing heatstroke. That's the kind of thing that gets you on the cover of US Weekly.
@BowlingForDollars: Personally, I went with organ shaving.
Scoregasm
TurdBlossom
Posted 9:05 AM 2/7/08
Jessica Alba tends to spend most of her time hating (pregnant or not)
TurdBlossom
BowlingForDollars
Posted 9:03 AM 2/7/08
Hookers and blow did it for me.
BowlingForDollars
jew-jew
Posted 10:10 AM 2/7/08
I found that having a baby at 19 and then immediately getting divorced was a killer way to drop all the baby weight and then some.
jew-jew
WGARefugee
Posted 10:38 AM 2/7/08
As much as I'd like to put my faith in cabbage soup, methinks we're neglecting the obvious.
WGARefugee
tmp00
Posted 11:20 AM 2/7/08
It's called a Caesarian and a tummy-tuck. One stop snip and suck.
tmp00
fembot
Posted 11:06 AM 2/7/08
the best way to lose baby weight is to NOT gorge yourself and gain 80 pounds.. The kid only weights 7 or 8 pounds - maybe 3 to 4 pounds of gook - the rest is pure lard people.. Maximum weight gain should only be 20-25lbs people.. (though the chronically starved like Nicole Richie can pack on another 10 to 15..)
fembot
Pay_Me_Or_Pay_Me_No_Attention
Posted 12:06 PM 2/7/08
Sorry, that was extra snarky. I love ya Pressley!
Pay_Me_Or_Pay_Me_No_Attention
Pay_Me_Or_Pay_Me_No_Attention
Posted 12:04 PM 2/7/08
@jew-jew:
Wow, you really are from Mesa, huh?
@WGARefugee:
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@tmp00:
Exactly. This is exactly all that happened.
I'm sure whoever the PR person was, she gave her self an extra Xanax for being clever enough to come up with Pressley's cabbage soup bullshit.
I've seen that chick inhale a steak at Mastro's in two seconds. No way that trailer-trash mutt face sucked on soup...
Pay_Me_Or_Pay_Me_No_Attention
Omelas
Posted 12:02 PM 2/7/08
"How Do Stars Magically Make Baby Weight Disappear?"
Surgery?
Omelas
gwendemarco
Posted 12:27 PM 2/7/08
@SeaPeople: Agreed. Spanx and the crushing neuroses of the aging female celebrity will do it lickety split.
gwendemarco
SeaPeople
Posted 12:23 PM 2/7/08
I also attributed baby weight loss to a) surgery, b) wearing loose-fitting clothes and spanx. Everyone's showing off their tiny legs and arms. If I'm correct, these parts tend not to gain as much weight during pregnancy.
SeaPeople
myrtlebeachbum
Posted 12:55 PM 2/7/08
Says who? Her publicist?
That's not the pre-pregnancy Alba. Kudos to her for keepin it real (in a non-Latina way, of course).
myrtlebeachbum
Trixie from Toronto
Posted 2:36 PM 2/7/08
@BowlingForDollars: For me it was crack and constant bong hits, even while nursing.
Trixie from Toronto
DrAftershave
Posted 7:02 PM 2/7/08
i always thought they used "Jimmy Tango's Fat Busters".
RIDE THE SNAKE!
DrAftershave
whoneedslight
Posted 11:04 PM 2/7/08
I've been drinking red wine and passing out for YEARS and have yet to lose a pound. I call BS, Gwynnie.
whoneedslight
Hart88
Posted 12:20 AM 3/7/08
I see Gwen somehow magically kept the gifts from the Boob Fairy.
Hart88
snappyface
Posted 1:52 AM 3/7/08
@fembot: True on your first point, but bullshit on your second.
Average weight gain recommended:
Maternal:
Uterus 2.39 lbs.
Breasts 1.0 lbs.
Blood 3.09 lbs.
Water 4.15 lbs.
Fat 8.27 lbs.
Subtotal 18.89 lbs.
Fetal:
Fetus 7.5 lbs.
Placenta 1.6 lbs.
Amniotic Fluid 1.97 lbs.
Subtotal 11.07 lbs.
Total 29.96 lbs.
snappyface
TillieHarper
Posted 2:25 AM 3/7/08
I don't really see where any of these women shed a huge amount of baby weight. It just looks like slimming clothes and body slimmers to me.
TillieHarper