Is Janet Gaining Her Weight Back?
July 6th, 2007 by Rian | Filed under Celebrity Weight Gain, Janet Jackson.Wow! I was quite surprised to see these photos, as it looks like Janet Jackson is gaining her lost weight back at a very rapid rate.
It was reported last year that the reason Janet had gained weight in the first place was for a movie role. I wonder if that is the case now? Her IMDB page does not show anything to that effect, however.
Wow. That is unbelievable. She doesn’t even look like the same person. It can’t be healthy to yo-yo up and down that drastically.
she was looking really good earlier this year…. I hope she sees these and gets back to that routine!
omg shes huge again!!!! and like 2 months ago she was on the cover of US weekly talking about how she has kept the weight off and maintained her look…uhh…
This is so terrible. A few years ago I had a little crush on her. I used to admire her tiny waist. Now she looks like some of the people I see in the all you can eat buffets.
What the hell is happening to her? She used to be gorgeous.
Maybe they’re doing re-shoots on the movie LOL
That’s what happens when you crash diet, and just pay a plastic surgeon to suck the rest of the fat out and fix your skin….you gain it all back.
but that butt…..dang, you could rest a piano on it
Dang. That must be so hard, obviously her “natural” body size and shape is NOT the washboard abs anymore. Actually, it never was, if you remember what she looked like when she was really young and first singing, she wasn’t super skinny at all, in fact people made fun of her about her weight. I think she’s worked her arse off for most of her life trying to keep such a perfect physique, who knows, maybe she’s just relaxing a little.
I think she lost the weight initially through some steroid cycles–like what body builders do before a competition. This is what happens when you go off the drugs.
Wow, so much for the big speaches on NEVER getting heavy again. If she would just be honest and say staying slim is always a challenge for me then it wouldnt be so shocking.
I think at this point in her career she should stop trying to be like the young artists with the 6-packs and the teeny tiny waists and just find a normal weight that’s easier to maintain for her body type, cause otherwise she’s going to end up yo-yo-ing back and forth between really heavy and really light, which is never healthy for anybody.
DAYUM! She looks scary. That weight came back on fast.
wow, check out that ass.
lay of the burritos and chicken, janet.
yes, im a bitch
What? Not two months ago she looked amazing! This is scary!
I believe she gained weight for a movie role about as much as I believe Britney attacked that SUV with an umbrella for a movie role. Ha. Ha.
That said, Janet must have some major food issues. She’s a beautiful woman — I hope she can get it together.
This disturbingly reminds me of the late :Luthor Vandross, who died from a stroke due to his penchant for losing, then rapidly gaining weight. He had at least three of these drastic yo-yo periods during his adult life and ended up dead from a massive stroke. Black people are twice as likely to suffer a stroke sometime in their lives, so the deck was stacked against Luthor. He would definitely not have died so young, but gaining than losing up to a hundred pounds very rapidly shortened his life.
I would hate to see Janet follow in his footsteps. Her family and friends need to sit down with her and tell her of their concerns.
wow!!! what happened to her? not to long ago she was posing in a magazine as a size 2 hard toned hottie now she has seriously junk inside her trunk! she doesnt even look like the same person! that extreme of yo-yoing cant be healthy. o poor janet. get it together.
I’m sorry but that is total BS that she gained weight for a movie role in the first place…. Did we even ever find out what move it was?!? Stop lying Janet and just admit you have a overeating problem.
ooops. His first name is Luther, not Luthor. Guess I have Superman on my mind today.
whatever. now, while i love a woman who has a lot of meat on her bones, she has to have a pleasant face as well. Janet looks too much like Michael. nice ass though.
She does seem to yo-yo a lot. It seems like she needs to get down to the psychological issues behind her weight gain if she is ever going to maintain a healthy weight!
wtf???!!!
her ASS IS HUUUUUGE!!!
Sister is putting on the beef big time
I think that this proof that fighting genetics is almost always a losing battle. Her body does not want to be a size 2, or weigh 120 lbs, or whatever she was saying she was maintaining.
There was a interesting article in the NY Times a few months back by Gina Kolata stating that while not completely helpless, “those who tend to be fat wil have to constantly battle their genetic inheritance if they want to reach and maintain a significantly lower weight”. So BRIDGE, the likelihood is that she does NOT have an overeating problem. This is probably the weight her body wants to be at when she is not beating it into submission. Nothing wrong with that. Its just a shame, and probably slightly humiliating for her that she has been on the cover of magazines recently touting her weight loss.
Poor girl!! but don’t be to harsh with her, when a person has that strong tendency to gain weight even if they promise to never be fat again it is something very difficult to control, probably she eats less than most of us but she will gain no matter what, She is the opposite of Heidi Klum that we always see eating and her metabolism is great.
omigosh i saw this yesterday how the hell does she do it, she must eat 24/7, the fast to lose it, but wow, and she was only on a magazine a matter of weeks ago for the weight loss, gosh gosh gosh, maybe she shuldnt jinx herself and do the mags then maybe she wuld not be the poster, of YOYO dieting. i suspect jessica simpson will do the same give it a year.
I don’t think she was ever a size 2 if she was it was one of hollywoods miracle airbrushing techniques.
again airbrushing should be outlawed. It affects to many of us. Giving us a worphed image of what we as
women should look like.
She still looks bulky. Far from how she looked before she gained all the weight.
Seriously is that trunk for real?
Wow, it looks like she gained about 30 pounds in the last 2 months! She must weigh at least 150 here. Emmie, I read the same article in the NY Times and while Janet’s natural weight may be higher than the 120 or so lbs she was at a couple months back, she would still have had to had binge constantly to gain 30 lbs. in such a short time!
I remember when she was getting some music award for her career back in the early or mid 90’s. The show had a bunch of clips put together for video display over the span of her career.
You could literally tell what year it was by looking at her. When she’s promoting her music, she’s chisled. Otherwise, she’s like “off season” or something. I cannot believe wwinging back and forth between the two extremes can be healthy. No friggin’ way!
She’s gorgeous either way though. I can’t stand it when people say about others “She/he will be beautiful once they lose weight.” That’s crap and it’s mean. You don’t have to be tall and slim to be beautiful. But you gotta come close to that description to be healthy.
(stepping off the soap box)
Wow! That’s a big change in such a short time. Who knows when they did that photoshoot, though. She should concentrate on being healthy rather than focusing on losing weight.
she is definintely gaining weight but she also has major muscle definition. look at her arms!
it’s weird that someone who was just months ago super tiny is not at all tiny now. wow.
i think genetically she is prone to building muscle though and that’s good.
Poor Janet…
I bet she has to damn near starve and workout like a mad woman to look like she did a while back. I bet she gains all the weight when she just eats normally. Some people have to bust their ass to be slim.
Given the fact that she yo-yo’s so much, I’m surprised she’d want to do articles about her diets/workout regimes. It just draws so much attention to her body in the first place, so when she gains weight back, it’s an even bigger story.
I don’t think she was ever a size 2, at least not when she was bragging about her weight loss. God, Janet is a total binger. I heard someone say that her weight gain is due to heredity, but there is no way you can credit her massive weight gain in such a short period of time to heredity. She overeats, that’s it. Must suck to have this blown in her face. I never liked her anyway.
I would like to see Janet as a spokesperson for Jennie Craig. I think I may call them and work something out.
Trix -she’s definitely a good bit over 150. And while putting weight on that quickly is unhealthy, I would argue that it still may not be from bingeing. If she was overexercising and restriciting too much (and yo-yo-ing for years) her metabolism is probably very slow — resulting in quick weight gain if she eats “normally” (just like people who cut out all carbs and then pile on weight if they eat a bagel). And her natual weight is certainly no where near 120 — I remember when I was a kid in the 80s and she was quite popular — she wasn’t fat, but she was thick. and she looked good.
That is the biggest rump I have ever seen. That puts Kim Kardashian to shame!!
Movie role? Who’s she playing? Fuckin’ OPRAH?
I didn’t think it was even possible to gain so much weight in just TWO months, but there it is, the pics speak for themselves. O_o
Poor woman, she’s ruining her health yo-yoing like that all the time.
I was going to say what Just Me said. I believe the weight gain was for a movie role as much as I belive Britney Spears attacked a car with an umbrella for a movie “roll”.
While Janet is probably not meant to be skinny, I think most of her weight gain has to do with binging. There is no way she can blame only her genes for this much weight gain.
^I agree.
Emmie: I meant that Janet’s weight was around 120 lbs. or so a couple months back, not that it was her natural weight. Who knows what Janet would look like if she ate a reasonable amount of calories a day (say, 2000?) and did a reasonable bit of cardio/strength training 3-5 times a week? She’s talked about her issues with binging in the past, so I don’t doubt that all this weight piled back on in such a short span of time because she’s been binging.
just goes to show that it is better to lose weight slowly and healthily like hilary duff, so that you can actually maintain it.
I agree with Pink Cashmere.
“yoga girl”: that was completely ignorant and NOT funny.
awwww–she looks great! Leave her alone!!
>:-(
Whoa, talk about junk in the trunk. However, her arms do still look a little toned. I wonder what her thighs look like because she looked real good only a few months ago.
HOW does she do this? WHAT does she eat to look like this? these pictures just prove that she is either a compulsive eater or has some sort of psychological issue that she is trying to solve by eating. And it proves that all those interviews where she says she’s now adapting a healthy lifestyle and all that were BS. i guess janet is just like a lot of other women, except a little more extreme: she works to achieve her goal weight, then doesn’t do anything to maintain it, and loses it again. And the cycle begins anew.
I actually feel a little sad for her.
WHOA!
Obviously off the weight loss drugs
This just proves what everyone knows about this woman- she wasn’t fat for a part in a movie role and when she had to lose the weight for her album release she did it by using surgery and/or drugs not a natural diet and exercise like she claimed. Who cares anyway, she’s a has-been- time for dancing with the stars.
This yo yoing cannot be healthy!
This is the result of YEARS of crash dieting and excessive exercise. Janet’s in her 40s now, and the body is not so forgiving of extreme regimens. I wish she didn’t feel as if she had to conform to a certain body ideal. This weight gain/loss cycle is very hard on the body, and leads to all sorts of health problems.
Oh god, lmd, I would hate to see the thighs. If this is what is VISIBLE, can you imagine what’s hidden? I shudder to think of what’s shuddering beneath the fabric of her pants. No thanks. No no no no no. I like to keep my lunches down, gracias!
Yoga girl - That was funny, I wish everybody didn’t take everything so damn seriously all the time…
I agree with Lola and Yoga Girl
These pictures cant be real. Janet Jackson couldnt have gain this amount of weight back in such a sort period of time. She look like she weighs at least 175lbs at 5′3 or 5′5. I am shock!
MAYBE SHE SHOULD TRY HER BROTHERS PLASTIC SERGON..MAYBE TAKE SOME OF THAT JUNK IN HER TRUNK AND GIVE MICHAEL A NEW NOSE
Uh, why are people blaming her weight gain on her genes?? Most people in her family (Michael, LaToya, etc) are skinny. So genetically, I think she would be inclined to be skinny.
Anyhoo, I think she looks awful now. She was so gorgeous before.
Janet is a big time yo-yo dieter; she’ll always have problems with her weight unless she sticks to a serious weight, diet and exercise regiment. I think the weight she lost before she did really quickly, and probably pretty much starved herself; so naturally she’s gaining it all back; and probably will gain even more.
Looks like she has gained a little but she’ll lose it again.
remeber when she was like “ive finally learned how to maintain my weight. no more yoyoing for me…”
I saw these pics yesterday and honestly could not believe it!!! How she managed to totally change her body shape so fast is beyond me. It’s totally one extreme to the other. When she’s in shape she has one of the most toned, chiseled, athletic looking bodies and then she swings very quickly back to this.
It’s unelievable, the differences in her lifestyle between the two extremes must be huge. She must be starving and exercising like crazy crazy to be at her toned, slim look and right now it doesn’t look like she’s exercising at all and eating what she wants.
I’d reckon it would be healthier for her to just stay at this weight and at least be consistent than swing so dramatically back and for
Janet looks great. Everyone tries to hold celebrities up to better standards than the rest of society. Why?? She’s wearing huge jogging pants. (Clothes make a big difference in your appearance). And even if she gained a bit of weight (at the most 20 lbs) it still places her in a healthy BMI. People should stop being so critical of celebrities. Who knows-Maybe she and Jermaine are expecting a baby. She still looks happy and beautiful. So if the weight ain’t buggin’ her why should it be buggin’ all the haters on here.
P.S. The movie is called Tennessee and Mariah Carey was cast instead.
I hate seeing her constantly go up and down in weight like this. I’m pretty sure I remember her saying she doesn’t like working out so that may make it harder for her to stick to her routines.
Still, it amazes me that she gets in such hardcore shape for her albums and videos and then completely “let’s go” months later. Perhaps this weight is in fact her “set point” like a bunch of you mentioned. If so, I feel for her…
CC - She’s definatly gained more than a ‘bit’. No clothes in the world are going to add that much weight to you. You can see it in her face and arms as well. And people are going to talk about it because she does interviews and covers about her weight loss and the end of her yo yo-ing then has a dramatic weight gain like this. I’m not saying she looks absolutly terrible but it is a major change from the pics we were seeing just a couple of months ago
holy huge… wow thats embarrassing that she was just on a cover about weight loss and now look at her?!?! SWEATPANTS poolside.. oh geez she needs a lot more than a fitness trainer, she needs a stylist.
I think she’s killed her metabolism and easily gains weight without constant bingeing. She probably needs her career to be back on top again. She does the starving and exercising for her image so when the album flops or the tour’s over it’s too hard to keep starving herself. Agree she has major issues with food. Coming from that family, it’s not surprising she has issues. I think she’s beautiful and talented and hope she’s able to get the support she needs to accept herself at a reasonable weight. Once that happens, the yo yoing will end.
I think she was ordered by her record company to lose the weight in time for her CD promotion.
I love you, yoga girl :]
Thinking someone is a load doesn’t make them a “hater”.
OMG! This is crazy! All I can say is why, I don’ t get it!
I am a little disappointed because she gave such a good interview to one of the magazines about eating well and exercising. She was very happy about her weight loss and hired her personal nutritionist who helped her maintain healthy diet. Poor Janet, I just hope there is a reason behind such drastic change.
Jesus Christ of Nazareth, her but is HUGE! What happened to “no more yo-yo” Janet?
As a side note to my comment above…
I will be shedding that “holiday 5 lbs” next week through exercise and dieting.
I live by the “three-pound” rule: if you gain more than 3 lbs, you must DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
Im shocked at the weight gain. She must be in a bad place mentally to have overeaten so much to become this size in a few months. She should step back and lok at herself.
holy crap!
WOAH, NELLY!
Lose weight too fast=Gain weight too fast.
I don’t believe anything that comes out of J.J.’s mouth anymore.
Anya…. *muah*
I still love Janet….. she’ll lose the weight again, then prolly gain it back…. to lose again. Could you imagine being in the public eye and photographed everytime you gained/lost weight?! Yikes.
I thought I had really bad weight fluctuations, but I only fluctuate within 5 lbs.
She must have some sort of stomach disorder from over-dieting and then over-eating, and it must not be good for her at all.
She, like Oprah, should get help.
emmie is my new hero. I agree with everything they said about genetics and dieting slowing down metabolisms.
Anyone who thinks she’s overeating to get to this point is probably quite misguided in my books.
She looks ok. Chunky, but still healthy. I hope shes happier too, she doesnt seem like a very stable woman, much like the rest of her family.
She looks horrible and disgusting with this fat azz.
Her problem is not that she lost the weight too fast. You can lose weight quickly and keep it off. It was that after she lost the weight she wanted to lose, she jumped right back into her old eating habits. When on a calorie restricted diet, you need to gradually introduce more calories by 100-200 per week until you get to the ideal maintance number. She probably went from 500-600 all the way up to 2000 without thinking twice. THAT was her problem.
she has the biggest butt EVER!
Ellie, did you know 95% of all diets fail? As in, people gain back all the lost weight and more within 5 years.
Dont think you hold the ultimate secret to keeping weight off.
Especially not for someone who is obviously genetically quite big, like janet jackson.
dieting slows down the metabolism, and a lot of people who diet down to a small size actually exhibit symptoms of starvation, and therefore NO MATTER how slowly they increase their calorie intake, they will still put on weight as soon as they stop dieting.
I have another point to make. Serena williams is almost as big as janet is here, and she’s a pro athlete. No one can deny that she’s pretty much ALL muscle. What makes people think that janet isnt also all muscle here? her arms have definition dispite being big, and she doesnt have a bulgy stomach. Janet is also known for being an excercise and gym freak. Maybe this is in fact, her natural body size when she’s living and eating healthily.
Should she still loose weight and be a standard thats obviously really difficult to maintain? She’s not thin. but I dont think she looks bad. she’s muscular and very powerful looking.
geeeeeez look at that butt…its huge!
Dieting does slow down the metabolism, hence the gradual increase in calories. It is careful watching that needs to be done to maintain that weight loss. Sure, a lot of people gain a few pounds, but does that mean that they gain it ALL back? No. If someone is dedicated to maintaining that weight loss that their acheived and continue to eat healthily and within their daily caloric range for maintenace of that weight loss, then they should succeed. It’s not the metabolism that causes diet failure. It is the PERSON that was dieting. When they acheive their goal, many people go right back to eating 2000 calories again instead of gradually increasing. That is the problem. The body/metabolism can take an increase of 100 calories a week without gaining weight. The body needs time to adjust to more calories after being on a restricted calorie diet. That doesn’t mean that you can go eat pizza and cake within your caloric maintenance range and expect to keep the weight off. A few pounds of gain is inevitable, but you make it sound as though all of that weight will be gained back. Then it would be impossible to lose any weight without surgery.
@enigmacat
Little do you know…. Luther Van. had diabetes which is the reason for his drastic yo-yo weight change. People with diabetes due tend to experience that. Diabetes attacks different ethnic groups missy. So comparing two people in this sense just because they are black is in a way absurd. Two different individuals with two different situations. I am not sure if Janet has diabetes, but you hardly see a man experience yo-yo diete, women and even celeb women tend to experience that more. So before bringing information onto the table pertaining race, do make sure you have your facts str8…Because there will always be people like me reviewing silly comments and then forced to address and correct them….Comprende?
Question: Why is it that whenever a person of color is brought as topic of conversation, there is always one idiot that brings up race issues? Race has nothing to do with weight. How ignorant can people get! I’m done
By the way, that arse looks sooo photoshoped, Janet doesn’t look like Janet, she looks like the average person you would see doing her thing. She had gained weight so fast, and I guess that is what the big fuss is all about. JANET WHAT HAPPENED? People age, grow, and try to just live comfortable. She does have a man now, and if her man loves her that way, who are we to judge? Besides she doesnt look fat at all, she just doesn’t look like Janet. And that darn butt appears sooo photoshoped. hahha
Hey Janet, become anorexic or bulimic like everyone else, so that these haterz can just be quiet and go back to their daily lives!
Janet —Ms Hefty if your Nasty…..lol
BTW, I’m so over the word “offended”.
Suck it up, people. The whole damn world is offensive day in and day out. What makes you so special that you shouldn’t be effected?
Get over being offended- it’ll free up a lot of time for you!!!
Her arms are toned, her stomach appears flat, she’s not THAT wide, and those sweat pants are very baggy and adding poundage. She gained, but not that much. She ALWAYS had that ass. In all those pics and magazine covers taken during her album promo she just never turned around so you could see it.
She’s always been a big time yo-yo’er.
Is that a real ass? It almost looks padded
Janet’s weight always goes up and down. No surprise there.
Ellie, that is so interesting about the body needing a gradual increase in calories after being on a diet! Makes so much sense. Explains why some of us gain weight very quickly, but also lose weight quickly, ala Jessica Simpson, Oprah, Janet. With Janet, she is so toned that I’m surprised she could regain weight quickly. as I am currently on (another) diet, its really good to keep in mind that I know that the transition back to “normal” eating.
i thought this was about ass. pro-ass vs. no-ass.
emmie: I enjoy reading your comments because you sound like an intelligent woman who tries to educate some of the people on this website who sound like they suffer from body-image issues. However, the “95% of diets fail” comment that’s been quoted time and time again in the media was based on ONE study conducted many years ago with a very small sample size. The people were given a diet to follow with no support or monitoring. 95% of people gave up. This is NOT to say that 95% of ALL diets fail, just the one the researchers chose to use in that ONE study with that very small sample size.
GOD! her a - - is huge!
Nolalola, *breathes a sigh of relief*
Thank you, its great to see intelligent, informed and introspective life still does exist.
I CAN’T STAND HER!!! This Yo-Yoing that she’s doing is very bad for her health. And after that Super Bowl stunt that she pulled, I hope her career stays in the gutter that she belongs in. She comes across as all innocent and shy, then she squeezes her fake boobs together so tightly and shoves them up so far up under her chin. Like that supposed to be natural?!?
Take some advice from your brother and “Beat it!”
How did hurricane katrina get brought up in this debate,? come on. its so pointless to try to have arguments and discussions via blogs. go find a real person to talk to and debate with.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste!
Good Lord, I’d say she’s put about 20-25 lbs on since her last ‘hot’ photos. What a shame, she had abs to die for.
so anyway..back to *ss sizes…
if she did put on 30 pounds in 2 months thats overeating by about 1800 cals per day.
and that could easily be done in one fast food meal.
(two double cheeseburger and fries)
there is no magic genetic excuse to why someone gains…a calorie in counts the same for all. some people may be prone to having a higher body fat but it doesnt give an excuse for obesity.
even if you dont wean back your calories you wont gain this much. the metabolism is flexable and will increase in 6 weeks.
wow her ass is big
you better all calm down or janet is going to come and beat the crap out of us all with her guns!
look…shes flexing!
RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!
in addition to ellie’s comment…
if white people were to start up a WET (White Entertainment Network) black people would go insane & call us racist. but it is perfectly alright for there to be a Black Entertainment Network. i’ve yet to undertand that
Ok….I am shocked at some of these comments! I believe that many people are way too obsessed with thinness, being skinny or slim. I think that as long as Janet is healthy it doesn’t matter how big or how small she is…..being skinny does not automatically make you more beautiful or better….this kinda stuff is what leads young people and even older people to Eating Disorder….or just DISORDERED THINKING…..
She’s got a nice butt; that’s all I can say for her.
Wowzahz - you keep saying you’re “done”….. but you keep coming back
You females are pathetic, LOL@what Wowzahz says about Elli about her being the winkest link
THat is sooo funny hahahahahah
Janet just lose the weight PuLEEEZ
Ew!
I think these pixs are fake.