Did Mariah REALLY Lose 20 Pounds?
April 21st, 2008 by Rian | Filed under Mariah Carey, Tabloid Magazines, Photoshopped Celebs.
Everyone is probably wondering how Mariah Carey lost 20 pounds and three sizes.
Here’s the answer…
She probably didn’t.
Yes, Mariah Carey has slimmed down a bit recently. However, the “before” photo on the cover is from October of 2006! Could they not find a more recent photo of her looking 20 pounds heavier?
Apparently not…
Also, here is a “real” photo of Mariah Carey from just last week, performing at Universal City in Hollywood, CA:
Hmm, does she look remotely like her “after” image on the cover?
Nope!
So to sum up, we’ve got a “before” photo that is 1 1/2 years old, and a heavily photoshopped “after” image.
Do you still think Mariah Carey has recently lost 20 pounds?
These tabloid weight loss cover claims are getting more ridiculous each month… it’s a well known fact that weight loss cover stories sell more magazines. After all, with obesity rates skyrocketing, everyone wants to get their hands on the diet secrets of the rich, skinny and famous… (Too bad we won’t find their true skinny secrets in these magazines!)
Photo via SplashNews
I love Mimi and she does look good, but the US weekly shot is so photoshopped for sure. her new cd is GREAT though…
I know how she could look 20lbs skinnier without any effort…. Go up one size! Crazy lady puts on the tightest stuff and shows all her bits and pieces and makes a skinny girl look chub!
yeah her supposedly “after” pic is probably taken from one of her early days pics or look like it.
qhy have everyone been after her over the years, she has NEVER been fat. maybe sometimes a litle tubby, but thats all. she looks like a real women so people get of her back
I don’t know about 20 pounds and 3 sizes, but she’s certainly improved!
She has lost and she looks so much better. It’s too bad that she hasn’t lost her lack of fashion sense.
20 pounds? no way. she’s slimmed down yes but I doubt if she lost that much.
I believe she is a Size 2 (4 at most). She looks good even with the black tights. I don’t think she’s that much different than the cover.
ahh i was hoping you’d post this! I definitely don’t find this true. She may have gone on a healthy nasty diet, but 20lbs? no, don’t see it. I don’t think she has any desire to lose that much weight either because she loves having large curves so good for her!
She looks better, but not 20lbs lighter.
I bet this is just more gobbly gook to get her new album more attention.
Thats what the music industry is these days - make sensational news when no one will care (Read: Ashlee Simpson)
Lame.
I dunno..It can be possible. She looks like she gained a little muscle and lost a great deal of fat. I’m 2 inches taller than her and also lost 20 lbs in a year (but only one size).
She’s got a thick, chunky build. I say she’s like 150-155 now and at her heaviest was probably 170. But 3 sizes? I doubt it.
I’m totally against photoshopping and I get very upset every time I see these things. Thanks for doing posts like these, we need to see that they don’t really look like they do on the covers.
She looks like she’s lost a bit of weight, and she looked awesome on American Idol last week.
However, it doesn’t look like a 20lb weight loss. Also, she wears totally inappropriate clothing.
She needs to realize she may have a nice body, but she’s not 22 years old anymore. She needs to dress appropriately for her age. The outfits she wears are tight and simply trashy for the most part.
She did manage to wear a nice, slimming outfit while she was coaching the performers on AI. However, when she sang, she was in a typical Mimi outfit - 100% spandex.
she could have, might have lost 20 pounds…. but what we know for sure is that us weekly pic is def photoshopped!!!!!i dont know how much weight she lost..really? but whatever the amount she did good and looks great. i love mariah i want to buy her cd so bad!!! it stinks that they have to do some phony story in a tabloid but i know she really did lose some weight(whatever the amount may be) and looks hot! and i think this pic with the black tights is HOOOOOT
She needs to stop squeezing herself into spandex outfits, she looks SO ridiculous! She did not lose twenty lbs, but she did improve herself.
One thing that really surprised me when I watched her on AI is that I thought she was MUCH taller! Several websites claim she is 5′9″ tall….however when she was standing with the Idol kids on those enormously high 6+ inch heels, she was just about the same height as them!
I read that article while at checkout line yesterday and it said that she is on 1000- 1500 calorie diet and does alot of cardio and that she is has no fat, just muscle. For her height and structure 1000-1500 calories is WAYY TO LOW!I am 5′2 and very small and I would starve on 1500 calories a day! Especially while doing all the cardio I do!
RIAN! Please post about Cassie the singer. She is a very petite/skinny, yet healthy and beautiful celeb. SHe represents the healthy skinny. IF you want to promote thinness, promote someone who looks like they eat and are healthy. Thanks.
She definitely looks better, but I doubt she lost 20 lbs… maybe 10 at most.
Fat pig!
YES! I DO BELIEVE SHE’S LOST 20 POUNDS! She was much heavier before, and she still looks fab in the 2nd pic of her. Of course the magazine cover is photoshopped but she really does look much thinner than before. I also seen her appearance on Oprah and she looked truly amazing! 1500 calories is a fair amount of calories…especially if your NOT working out everyday. She said that she doesn’t work out everyday either.
Is it just me or does her face look totally different on the Us cover? I barely recognized her.
Of course the photo was photoshopped. BUT THEY ALL ARE.
Its SOOOOOO hard to lose 20 lbs… if you look in the internet for pictures of her even 6 months ago, she was BUSTING our of her skimpy outfit. I believe she’s lost 20 lbs… she looks great! Don’t take that away from her!
When she was on SNL a few weeks ago, she looked slimmer and toned.
she’s pretty tall, so i think she’s definitely lost about 20 or so pounds. tall girls tend to carry extra weight less noticeably, so that might be why she doesn’t look drastically different from her before picture
I on board with Amanda and Sue. Mariah does look great. But, the photo of her face looks like it came from the 90’s.
Mariah and Rachel Hunter both have a certain ‘horse’ like quality. They both are ‘big boned,’ and should watch what they wear.
Yes, black is slimming, but Mariah has tons of clothes to chose from! I’m sure her fans at the Universal City in Hollywood, CA would have appreciated at different out fit from the woman who gave the Beatles the heav-ho.
It’s so obvious that’s not her body. They stuck her head on someone else. Pathetic. I don’t buy this stupid mags. They are ridiculous.
Size 2? lol. Ok, maybe Jennifer Love Hewitt size 2.
I’ve never been a fan but I must say, she does look good and continues to keep in shape, whether it’s from plastic surgery or excersise plus a balanced and healthy diet. no wonder people are saying she’s secretly dating some wealthy guys on _M illionaireloves.c om_ i do hope i have that luck!LOL
I wonder how lonely a person she is. I am not sure which causes more hostility towards her–when she looks good, or when she does not.
Very few women have figures anywhere close to as perfect as hers is now. None of them have sold 160 million recordings. She does not seem to have addiction problems affecting her life. I am not sure why she commands so little respect.
hahaha….hilarious…
maby she lost a few pounds, but that idiot (sorry, but that women is simply not smart)
will never be thin….
she love food too much….
fatty…………
lol…
I think she’s still fat
I don’t see any difference!
I bought that magazine and there is no way she is a size 0 or 2. She is just a big girl and if she ate what she said she ate she in that article she would look like a skeleton. I mean 1000 calories per day is not much.
idk…if you saw her on american idol last week she DID look pretty good…..im just saying. maybe it was 20 lbs, but she looks amazing regardless
She seems so snobby and a bit fake. Having all those curves suits her, though.
I believe she has had some major liposuction in her stomach area. Probably in her thighs too. She looks better but I dont believe it was diet. I think she had liposuction and other work done. Any how she looks great and has a beautiful voice. Seems like a nice person!!
DEF NOT 20 POUNDS, MAYBE 5.
Look at her knee on the cover. It’s not even there! Talk about photoshopping. I wouldn’t say twenty pounds…
I agree that tabloids ALWAYS exaggerate both weight loss and gain.
While it looks like Mariah has slimmed down, she will never look delicate or feminine to me. She is so big boned and her implants make her looks bigger too.
Last week she was the mentor for the remaining American Idol contestants. She appeared on two different days wearing (of course) two different outfits. In both outfits she looked thinner than the Universal City outfit displayed in the above picture.
Big FAT lie.
Just lke her.
She’s rather chubby, especially on her thighs. She’d be so much sexier slimming down 20 pds., yes, which she obviously didn’t…
She might have lost 20lbs, but she is NOT a size zero…like she mentions in the article. Something about some jeans she had are size zero. Ah no. But, if I were eating her diet I would be a size zero. It looks dreadful. She’ll gain it back if she has to stay that regimented.
I saw on E! news that she claims to be a size 2, which I actually believe, because she looked amazing on American Idol last week. She has been looking great lately.
She defintely looks 20 pounds lighter than the before picture, I don’t know how recent the weight loss was though.
I think she looks curvy and healthy. She is a tall girl as well. She looks like a size 6 or so, which would be small on her height. I like her figure.
I love Mariah and I think her body looks good for how old she is. She REALLY needs to start dressing in more age appropriate clothes though. No one really looks good in the “winter” shorts and leggings but waif-like twenty-somethings. I at least would have thrown on some knee-length black boots on with that outfit instead of the mary-jane Loubotins she has on here.
FAT. urgh.
She loses, she gains. Loses, gains. Six months from now we’ll see her on the Enquirer cover under the caption.. “Mariah let herself go again” with another chubbier Mariah packed in(and spilling out) of her far too short black spandex dress or short shorts.
The reason? Diets don’t freaking work. Those who cannot commit to a lifestyle change of good eating and consistent exercise will always gain back the weight once they loose interest in maintaining.
Well they are certainly making a big enough deal about her weight loss. She was on Oprah about it no more than a week ago. She was showing off her new fitness routine and new figure. I have to believe she’s lost quite a bit to get that kind of attention.
I don’t know if she has lost a solid 20 pounds but she does look slimmer. She looked great on American Idol.
I dont think she lost 20 pounds but she does look a lot slimmer. I definately dont think she wears a 2-4, I’d say more like 6-8. She does look really good though, especially when she was on American Idol. Good job!
RIAN - THE BEFORE PIC IS FROM HER PERFORMANCE ON NEW YEARS EVE LESS THAN 4 MONTHS AGO. SHE WAS MUCH BIGGER THEN. I WOULD SAY SHE HAS LOST 10 - 15 POUNDS.
I totally believe that she dropped 20 lbs. She was pretty big for a while. Although she’s not as thin as the Us cover photo, she’s definitely lost a lot. Size 2 though? Sure if she’s shopping at the Gap. Who cares what size she is or how much she’s exactly lost, she’s lost a lot of weight and toned up. Good for her.
That US cover is ridiculous. Everyone knows she doesn’t even have the build to look that thin. She has a slender, medium frame and should be proud of it.
i believe it. she looks much thinner on her live videos. that can’t be photoshopped. she’s lost a lot round her midriff. she actually looks really good now (apart from the monster boobs).
she has definetly lost about 20 pounds, yeah the cover was totally airbrushed…but at all her other apearances she looks good.
I saw her on Oprah, her “diet” was basically only eating the food a personal chef put in the fridge for her…not big on self control, but I’m sure it would work for anybody who can afford a personal chef
She is 5′9 - 5′10.. She is a US size 8 (nothing to be ashamed, or but still) at LEAST no way she is a 4 or 6.
Maybe she has lost 20 lbs, but she was very overweight before, so she needed to.
She has never been fat. Even at her highest weight she was not fat. I don’t care for her choice of clothing, but as far as her figure is concerned, she has a fabulous figure.
Still, appearing on the cover of a magazine bragging about weight loss is the best way to get talked about when you put the weight back on.
What a sausage! If she lost 20 lbs then she needs to lose about 20 more!
I saw her on Am. Idol and I thought she looked kind of heavy especially dressed all in black. She had a tank top on and her arms looked huge. She is not a size two which is Ok. Why do they think people are going to believe that. Obviously you can see with your own eyes she is much larger than a two. She was very small and thin in her 20’s when she started singing. I dont think she will ever be that size again either. The people that say ahhh she looks good for her age I don’t think that is fair. I am the same age as her and I work hard to keep my body at a certain size 5,5 and 107-109 so the age thing I don’t agree with. Yes it takes more discipline when youare not in your 20’s anymore that is all.
I agree with the majority of others who have posted here. Mariah definitely looks to have lost a lot of weight…doubtful if its’s 20 pounds…Maybe 10 ….OR 15 at most! She looks toned…but she said she worked out 90 minutes/day every day of the week as well as having a personal trainer to help …she also had a personal “chef”. Mouse, I agree with you…NO WAY is she a size 2! She is a larger boned girl. Jennifer Love Hewitt is a size 2 (allegedly). Mariah might be a size 4 in a certain brand or “cut” of dress…but otherwise she seems to be more 6 or 8. Her waist looks smaller & more defined…but her butt is still ample and NO WAY is her butt squeezing into size 2. Mouse, you mentioned that Mariah may wear a size 2 at the GAP. Does the GAP cut their sizes larger than other stores? (Like at the GAP Mariah may barely pour herself into a size 2); but at other stores she’be be a good size 8 in the butt or maybe a 6?
I dunno. She looks better, though. I wish she would dress in a more flattering manner. That would do wonders for her.
When I furst heard this story about her being a size 2, I thought my head was going to explode!!! I am so fvcking sick and tired of every celebretard having to say that they are a 2 or a 0. She has been saying for years that she is 5′9″ so for her to be a 2 she would actually look SKINNY, not just ’slimmed down’!! This is dangerous, people. For someone like Mariah Carey who is clearly a thicker, chunkier build to say she is this tiny distorts the minds of women everywhere
She has definitely lost weight–she looks pretty good (in a Spanx-assisted way), and she might have lost 20 lbs, but a size 2–no way.
Karly, GAP 2’s (like many many mall stores) are bigger than a regular 2, but still, there is no way Mariah is squeezing in any size 2. GAP or otherwise!
just to clear things up
1) no way did she lose 20lbs, she toned up a bit, but 20lbs is a pretty big weight loss and I dont see it
2) eating 1000-1500 calories is very little, your body would burn that much if you spent your day sleeping let alone if you were active–yes to all you thinkers who believe 1500 is more than enough you are wrong.
3) she is not a size 2. im sorry. so many things wrong with that. i have a friend who is really tiny and shes 5′9 and shes not a size 2. size 2 is REALLY tiny, and mariah is not REALLY tiny. fine, so size 2 might not be omg tiny, but its pretty small–smaller than mariah
4) she should stop lieing about her weight, she doesnt need to, she just needs to dress her age because she looks good, its her outfits that look horrible
Last week on American Idol, she looked really good.
She looks good, very fit.
She probably lost 17 lbs or so, which she of course rounded up to 20. I’d say that’s about right…she does look quite a bit slimmer than she had looked before. But she’s gonna gain it all back, she ALWAYS does. She yo-yos so much it ain’t even funny. You know she doesn’t work out (or if she does, she probably wears stilettos while she strolls on her treadmill) and she is always going on some retarded diet that obviously isn’t something you can follow long-term. And she always wears a ton of Spanx and too-tight clothes, which may help hold in the rest of her pudge.
I think she looks great. I didn’t know she had implants. I thought she was naturally voluptuous.
yeah she definitely slimming down but not in size 2. I’m 5′5″ about 120 pounds. I still can’t get into size 2 clothes (Brit Size). It’s too tight…
I don’t know why they bothered photoshopping it. I think she looks a lot hotter in the real picture of her from last weight (body-wise) than she does in the silly magazine cover. Does anyone agree?
I have shoes like those Mary Jane stilettos! But mine probably cost $2000 less. She looks skinnier than before, and who knows, she’s a big girl–20 pounds probably doesn’t look like a lot on her. I mean, she has to have lost some weight, or else she wouldn’t be talking about it on every talk show she’s on. But the magazine cover is hideously Photoshopped.
ha ha! I saw that cover and wanted to re-write it “How I lost 5-8 lbs, learned to wear Spanx at all times and got heavily airbrushed!”
I can believe she lost 20 pounds, especially if she’s taller. I saw her on American Idol and she did look much thinner than I’ve ever seen her before. Kudos to her, but I think her diet, or what she claims her diet to be, is too extreme…with a diet like that, I’d think she’d be much thinner.
When Mariah was in Africa for Oprah’s school, she looked much bigger so I think that Mariah did lose 20- 30 pounds.
I just do not think this woman ever looks good. I don’t care for her body type, and the way she always wears inappropriate clothing that is too tight doesn’t help. She is not 20 years old, and she could do a lot more with herself if she would only realize this when she dresses.
She is known for her voice, not her looks. When will she realize this and get over it?
Cinnamon: Thanks for the information about the GAP. Agree with YOU…no way Mariah got her butt into a size 2 …much less a size 0
as was quoted somewhere else. Her bone structure is just NATURALLY larger… a bit more like Jennifer Lopez. Now if I saw that Kate Bosworth wears a size 0…I’d believe that (she’s lost lots of lbs again). There is a huge difference betwwen Mariah and Kate Bosworth. No way Mariah would be a size 2 in this universe!
Leah I agree with you she is known for her voice. So throw out all the spandex tight clothes. She is a beautiful girl. She actually makes herself look bigger the way she dresses. She could still have a sexy look. She woud look so muc better dressing more classy.
no way she lost 20 lbs! she’s pretty short, so 20 lbs on her would show a LOT more than that!
lots of airbrushing as i can see… but she looks really good now. though her upper legs are pretty big.
Still a fat whale.
dizer, pretty short? Since when is 5′9″ short for a woman? I believe she lost 20 lbs. She was pretty chunky before. Not fat, but thick. She looks good now.
hah, she needs to lose like 20 more pounds if this is even remotely near true. or maybe 30. her “curves” look disgusting.
WHY THE FRIGGIN SUNGLASSES?
to clara, her curves dont look disgusting at all, i bet yours do tho
good for her for losing that flab she had in 06 - 20 lbs or not, she looks better now. hopefully she’s doing it healthily or it will come back real fast
lol, maybe the photoshopped mariah is a size 2, but come on now, she must think we are all soooo stupid to believe she’s a size 2.
she looks like hilary duff on the mag cover !
I dont think She is 5′9. I believe that is why she is always in the huge high heels. She is more like 5′4- 5′5. Defintely about a size 6-8. That is why she should not wear her clothes so tight. Why do people think if they wear tight black clothes it will make them look smaller. Most of the time tight spandex makes you look larger.
She definitely lost weight, but there’s no way she’s a size 2 now.. she doesn’t look like an 8 in the before pic either.. I’m an 8, can even fit in a 4 dress sometimes and I look smaller than that, WAY smaller, I’d even show a pic if anyone wants ‘proof’! She looks like a 12 in the before pic and like a 6 now.
She is one of those people who do it all for attention. She cant sing so she sells her body.
Who cares? Try having children, and then brag about losing weight. I’m just grateful that Mariah can still sing, and hasn’t gone insane like a lot of other celebs. “We Belong Together” is one of the greatest tracks of all time!
She looked great before and now, why does it matter if she’s gained or lost a few pounds? She’s a singer.
she has lost 5 lbs not more…
I wear a size 2 and she is at least a size 6
I just want to say MARIAH DOES LOOK WAYY BETTER. She did definitely LOSE weight but I would not be quick to say it was 20 pounds. Perhaps a bit over 10 pounds 15 maybe? I also believe the after pic is severely photoshopped however she does look much slimmer.
Everyone keeps saying she looks to be a size 6-8 she actually looks like a legit size 4…and since designer clothes run alightly bigger than regular clothing she probably can get into some size 2’s. She looks great…if anyone saw her new video she looks the size 2 that she is claiming! Idk how but she does!