According to the latest issue of In Touch Weekly, The Real Housewives of Orange County star Gretchen Rossi once suffered from bulimia. She shares some of her current diet and exercise info in the article and only briefly touches on the actual eating disorder, which apparently didn’t last very long.

Here’s some highlights:

Q: When did you problems with food begin?
A: I was a lot heavier back in high school and in college. I wasn’t even fat, I was only 130 pounds. But compared to what I look like now at 115 pounds, I thought I looked fat.

Q: When did you realize you had a problem?
A: Pretty quickly. I realized how much harm binging and purging could do to my body. It burned my esophagus, throat and nose, and I eventually saw my skin discolor. My hair began to thin out. I was dehydrated and felt lethargic. I even became anemic at one point. I realized the stress to my body could be life-threatening. It wasn’t worth it.

Q: How do you stay in shape?
A: Everything is about moderation. I’m not obsessed about how I look. I think I’m healthy and fit because I feel healthy and fit on the inside. And it [comes through] the outside.

Q: What is your diet like?
A: I don’t count calories or cut sugar out. I have a little taste of everything, then, for the next three days, I’ll be really careful.

Hmm… yet another reality-TV personality coming out about an eating disorder in a tabloid magazine… who is next?

Source: In Touch Weekly, Nov 23rd 2009 issue

Singer/performer Shakira was spotted leaving a meeting in the midtown section of New York City yesterday afternoon…

Photos via INFDaily.com

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Heidi Montag spotted at MTV studios for her appearance on 'It's On With Alexa Chung' yesterday (Nov 16th). Photos via INFDaily.com

Hey everyone, from now on – along with my regular posts – I’ll be including a feature called Celebrity Diets & Skinny Bites that will collect the latest tidbits of news and gossip about celebrity weight, diet and body exercise from magazines, tabloids and other news & gossip sources. I’ll do these posts as often as there is new gossip to share, plus include a couple of random photos.

The Skinny Website is just about 4 years old, and posts like these are why I originally started the website way back in 2005 – in order to share the latest celebrity diet/body gossip.

Enjoy!

• OK! Magazine is claiming that Jessica Simpson has ‘lost 12 more pounds!’ by switching to a healthier diet. A friend of Jessica’s tells the magazine, “Jessica can lose up to seven pounds in a week when she puts her mind to it. She has it down to a science: She switches to a healthier lifestyle, and the weight falls right off.”
• National Enquirer’s latest cover story is about Angelina Jolie’s alleged ‘collapse’ at home. The story claims that Angelina is down to 104 pounds and can’t stop losing weight. It goes on to say that Brad is forcing her into rehab because “she’s weak, frail and barely able to keep up with the demands of their kids” according to one source.
• The same magazine claims that Mariah Carey’s weight has recently ‘exploded’. Her pals claim Mariah has put on a shocking 42 pounds from gorging on macaroni and cheese, fried chicken, caviar and lots of champagne. According to the story, even her husband Nick has been urging her to lay off the booze and fattening food. “She’s in danger of passing the 200-pound milestone if she doesn’t get her weight in check” says a source.
• Ashlee Simpson is looking thinner than ever these days (as we’ve seen in recent photos), but supposedly she has a very healthy appetite and likes to chow down on cheeseburgers, french fries, soup, tacos, etc. Her ’secret’? According to a recent issue of Woman’s Health, Ashlee burns off the calories by running after Bronx and by doing Pilates. She originally lost the baby weight by sticking with a home delivery meal plan for a while, which she didn’t enjoy because of the ‘lack of food’.
• According to an online source, Jennifer Aniston lost some weight by doing the ‘no white’ diet – not eating anything with starch in it. Britney Spears lost weight by eating a LOT of meat – turkey, salmon and chicken; and Jennifer Garner lost the rest of her baby weight by eating smaller meals and exercising more.

More celebrity diet news and gossip to come!

Kate Moss smoking in London yesterday (Nov 16th).

Ugly Betty star America Ferrera was spotted munching on an apple yesterday on the set of the show in Manhattan…

Photos via Wenn.com

She’s been looking really fabulous on the show lately!

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