Jessica Stroup’s Healthy Transformation

July 29th, 2010 by Rian | Filed under 90210, Before & After, Jessica Stroup.

Jessica Stroup Before & After

90210 star Jessica Stroup has made quite the transformation back to a healthy size over the past couple of years. Very impressive!

Here are some more new photos of Jessica at the 2010 CBS, CW, & Showtime summer press tour party, which was held at the Beverly Hilton last night.

Jessica Stroup
Photos via Wenn.com

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167 Responses to “Jessica Stroup’s Healthy Transformation”

  1. coco | 29/07/10

    I have to admit that I liked how skinny she was. But I 100% support her choice for becoming healthy. She is still beautiful and looks happier.

  2. Lynn | 29/07/10

    Like her better now!

  3. clark kent | 29/07/10

    what a face! beautiful. sorry but the body is unimpressive either way.

  4. noname | 29/07/10

    Hm… Is it a bad thing that I liked her better before? Maybe not in the picture above, but definitely in 90210 season 1…

  5. erinkay | 29/07/10

    Hmmm…I liked her skinnier better. But I usually like skinny better. But good for her for fixing whatever problem she had & getting healthier weight-wise. I just hope it was a health weight gain…

  6. Faint | 29/07/10

    She looks like a totally different person now, waaay better. I like her legs :)

  7. greenbird | 29/07/10

    she looks much healthier now, but could do with some bangs. also, she should avoid such thigh-skimming dresses, IMHO.

  8. Lynn | 29/07/10

    I hate to say it, but I think she looked better before. She looks really unfit right now, but I think she’d probably look fabulous if she just toned up.

  9. Shaniqua | 29/07/10

    She obviously had an eating disorder before. Healthy is always better.

  10. morticia | 29/07/10

    gosh, i’m torn here…i’m thinking i should keep my thoughts to myself on this one…i think my thoughts are not healthy looking at these photos…

  11. nannou | 29/07/10

    She looks pretty both ways. That gold-black dress is awful

  12. kat | 29/07/10

    I think she looks much better now, although I think she’d look her absolute best if she lost around 5 lbs. Just to minimize the arm chunk.

    The before picture is frightening. She looks fragile and frail — like someone desperately trying to fit into the Hollywood scene. I’m glad she no longer looks this way.

  13. gatling | 29/07/10

    i prefer somewhere in between. but if i have to choose, i’d choose the right one. HEALTHY FTW! :D

  14. rachel | 29/07/10

    I think she looks beautiful! She was clearly unhealthy in her scary skinny picure and she looked so much older and gaunt. I applaud her for caring about her health and taking control of herself. Her body will thank her down the line.

  15. Jade | 29/07/10

    She looks a lot better now, everything except the arms…SORRY but I’m not gonna lie. I don’t know if she can get them toned to look better, or if she’d have to slim them down first for it to be noticable, I’m not a fitness buff like a lot of people that comment here. But the “after” pics are an improvement overall.

  16. Aphrodite | 29/07/10

    I adore her outfit! She looks a million times better now, when she was at her thinnest she looked like a child.

  17. Jo | 29/07/10

    Good for her for getting healthy. Her face definitely looks better, but I’m not a fan of the bigger arms.

  18. shaden | 29/07/10

    she gained,,but noth that much !
    and she still looks good!

  19. Eliane | 29/07/10

    I’d be lying if I said healthy suited her better than skinny but I guess she’s still pretty and she knows what’s best for her.

  20. bucklegirl | 29/07/10

    … Its bad but I prefer her skinnier :/ but then I think everyone looks good that thin ..

  21. Laryssa | 29/07/10

    Wow. she now looks like a proper actress. like a Christina Ricci, Thora Birch, Scarlett Johanson type where because they have ACTUAL talent, they don’t have to be a bean pole… I’m just saying. Watch her get a few good movie roles. I’m so proud of her for stepping into a bigger World

  22. happyvegetarian | 29/07/10

    she looks okay in the after pics, but she needs to tone her arms..I think she should get thinner, but in a healthy way with a healthy diet and exercise.

  23. Lorie | 29/07/10

    kudos to her being healthy, a good role model. however, I think she looks much more beautiful at her skinny weight..

  24. Barbara | 29/07/10

    She looks amazing now. I like skinny but she was scary skinny before.

  25. Ana | 29/07/10

    I think she’s way better now, maybe she just needs try to get more toned!! :)

  26. margaret | 29/07/10

    she is beautiful… but god, that’s depressing. staying that thin takes a lot of hard work, determination, and discipline. i imagine that she must feel like she failed, every day. (i only make these assumptions based on personal experience…)

  27. gina x | 29/07/10

    I agree with Kat, she looks better now but like 5 lbs off of this would be ideal just to have an overall sleeker appearance.

  28. elahe | 29/07/10

    she should start buying larger dresses this one looks tight on her, like it belongs to her thinner days

  29. Lisa | 29/07/10

    sorry meant to say *sick not *sink

  30. southerngumdrops | 29/07/10

    i’m honestly shocked that so many of you think she looked better before…she looked emaciated. plus, when recovering from an ED you usually go up quite a bit before you settle back at your normal weight…bc your body is holding onto everything thinking you’re going to starve it again

  31. Dana | 29/07/10

    Its either your face or your ass. Now she’s got a great face.

  32. k | 29/07/10

    the only thing i find weird are her legs/calves/ankles.. i dont know if its the way she is standing, but they curve strangely. but obviously im being very picky.

  33. Catherine | 29/07/10

    what do you guys think the weight difference is (stats)?? I think I’d like here somewhere between where she is and where she was. Either way, she would look better in a differently cut dress.

  34. Rachel | 29/07/10

    She looks so much healthier now, which at the end of the day, is the most important thing. Can’t think of much more to say- I just hope this is a healthy weight gain, and not the result of binge-eating after under eating.

  35. bb | 29/07/10

    …you don’t realise how unhealthy some one is until they get back to where they should be
    she looks a million times better now than before

  36. anna | 29/07/10

    im over joyed to see a women showing such healthy glow all over herself to prove to the world….being unhealthy skinny isnt the way to go….curvy is the most gorgeous thing everrr

  37. GymRat | 29/07/10

    I’m sorry, but what “arm chunk!?” So because her arms do not look like two broomsticks she is considered chunky!? I think she has an amazing figure and is a great example to all women- young and old!

  38. jed | 29/07/10

    A glance at your archives shows that she gained enough to look good compared to 2008 a long time ago. I think she looks terrific in your February post. She looks heavier now than then–maybe that is good, but you could make a case that she has gained 15 when gaining 10 was about right, but that is her call to make.

  39. sama | 29/07/10

    She looks frickin gorgeous! I always say this but this time i mean it, she looks better than ever. And whoever thinks she looked better skinnier is deluded, I hope Jessica doesn’t read those comments.

  40. sitruunapulveri | 29/07/10

    I think she looks very good nowadays! :) Better than before.

  41. Tonia | 29/07/10

    I think she looks much better now! I still love her body. :)

  42. moonbel | 29/07/10

    She is such a beautiful girl. I am glad she’s at a healthier place. I really like her shoes!! ;)

  43. Ali Minh | 29/07/10

    She is a beautiful gal and she looks great healthy :)

  44. christina | 29/07/10

    she looks a lot younger in the after pics.. in the before pics you can tell that shes too small for her bones

  45. rosela | 29/07/10

    i like how her face looked before, she looked beautiful, too me. she is great now, but i liked her better the other way

  46. Karen | 29/07/10

    Preferred her body skinny but her face looks better now – body or face as Madonna says!!

  47. gigi | 29/07/10

    before she was emaciated, now she has a healthy glow.

  48. glow | 29/07/10

    In my opinion, the only reason she looked better before was because her hair was darker & brought out her blue eyes. The body looks better now.

    Dana- in this case it wasn’t between her face & her ass. She didn’t have one before. How is that good?

  49. littleB | 29/07/10

    as someone who strived to look like her ‘before’ the transformation, i look up to her for getting healthy and gaining the weight she needed. good for you jessica, i look up to you. it’s definitely not easy gaining the weight back and takes a lot more confidence than you think. you go girl!

  50. syrah | 29/07/10

    i find it ironic that many of you say that while you prefer her skinny, you congradulate her for getting healthy. so now she’s healthy, but you like her skinnier? contradiction. which one is it? go ahead and starve yourself one minute, but in the next minute: yay, you’re healthy?! that doesn’t make any sense. i think this girl looks great! and bucklegirl, not everyone looks good that thin. i’d fall over and die if i were that thin. i’m athletic and need some muscle, meat and FOOD delicious FOOD to sustain my rigorous activities.

  51. annie | 29/07/10

    she looks fat, she looked so good when she was like 7 pounds heavier then the 2008 pic…. now she is borderline chubby

  52. loul | 29/07/10

    law of the diet: all the weight loss get back at one point!

    don’t like the arms, but I have the same so… she looks just like a normal pretty girl right now.

  53. Charlie | 29/07/10

    I feel so sad that I think the earlier picture looks better. I think maybe we have all been brainwashed. She is clearly healthier now, which should be more beautiful, but why am I more attracted to the earlier shot. Sorry to say.. :(

  54. krissie | 29/07/10

    She looks great now.

  55. rachel | 29/07/10

    she definately looks better now … i know that would kill to look like her …

  56. Rian | 29/07/10

    syrah, everyone has their own opinion… some prefer super skinny, other prefer healthy. It’s not a contradiction, it’s just different people and different opinions. :)

  57. pet peeve | 29/07/10

    I think a weight in between the before and after would be my vote, but she’s beautiful either way.

  58. Connie | 29/07/10

    Beautiful girl, glad she got healthier. Being that underweight is terrible for your heart!

  59. Polly | 29/07/10

    Yeah, didn’t everyone say she’s the “naturally skinny” type when commenting on the August 2008 pictures. She obviously was anorexic before, now she looks great. But I have a feeling she’ll be a Jessica Simpson…

  60. Helen | 29/07/10

    She looks so beautiful, healthy and happy now! Way to go!

  61. BethMarie90 | 29/07/10

    Wow her face looks different! She looks great! It’s amazing how much weight gain/loss can change the shape of your face! And she looks so happy! She’s beautiful! and I really love her dress =]

  62. sweetnsour | 29/07/10

    Wow she looks completely different — and younger now! She looks a lot like Kirsten Stewart.

  63. Nicole | 29/07/10

    she looks much better with dark hair. she really is very pretty though. i think-weight wise-she would look the best somewhere in between.
    also, not everyone gains that much weight back after being underweight…trust me ;)

  64. Mishka | 29/07/10

    I think she has one of the most beautiful faces in the world, I don’t think i don´t like her body right now but I do think is a really bad outfit

  65. nnn | 29/07/10

    @Dana—hahah!!! So true!!

    Her face looks very pretty, but she at least needs to tone up…

  66. Maggie | 29/07/10

    She looks healthy and really happy…good for her, definitely better than the skeleton version.

  67. b | 29/07/10

    I like after WAY better. Before was too thin. Frankly, she looked like a little anorexic high schooler. Unsophisticated and insecure. On the right, although I do think her arms are, well, lacking some shape, I can’t get over her LEGS. I LOVE HER LEGS NOW. They are sexy. Strong and slim.

    I don’t have super thin long legs, but they’re muscular and I’m amazed how many men ogle them. I always thought pin thing was better, but I guess not always…

  68. kat | 29/07/10

    hmmm… I think she would look better if her dress was more flattering or if she had better body composition… here she just looks shlumpy, I mean at least wear a bra!She needs more muscle and less fat…

  69. mpoore | 29/07/10

    Halfway between the “BEFORE” and “AFTER” is ideal to me. Too skinny in the one. But too sloppy in the other. I agree with the poster who says her arms look flabby. They do. And the upper thigh may be a bit thick as well. Just a little fine-tuning is needed. Like, maybe a loss of 3-5 lbs.

  70. chocolatelover | 29/07/10

    i hate saying this, but i think she looked more beautiful before….from like the shoulders up. it’s weird. usually i think actressed that are too thin are more beautiful when they gain some weight. jessica’s hips, arms, and legs looked terrible when she was so thin…but her face looks totally different now and i think her actual face was more beautiful when she was thin. makes no sense. i did prefer the dark hair but i dont think that would make all the difference….hmmm im stumped with this one.

  71. Natalie | 29/07/10

    I cant believe some people STILL think she looked good then… please get help for your issues :/ She looks fantastic now, she’s glowing and clearly is so much healthier now. I hope she will stay this way.

  72. nin | 29/07/10

    She looks great…if only she now knew how to dress her new healthy body. That dress is appalling. And, Kristen Stewart look-a-like??? What an incredible insult, Jessica is gorgeous, Kristen is plain Jane all the way and about as boring as one can get. I think Jessica looks more like a young Jennifer Connelly.

  73. olesja | 29/07/10

    sorry. i have to admit i like her Body before much more. it is to say that this has been way too skinny. maybe a few pounds would fit to her. but not that much. she has a healthy weight. there’s nothing to say. but she isn’t fit and toned. i think this is the problem with her weight..

  74. stop blocking my comments please | 29/07/10

    so pretty… with the weight on the bones! Before, she was totally gross.

  75. Dee Dee | 29/07/10

    She looks even more beautiful than she was before. She looks natural and healthy. Not thin and frail. And by no means is she overweight or fat, weight is a huge issue and I’d much rather be healthier than emaciated looking.

  76. moon | 29/07/10

    honestly.. i think an inbetween of the two weights would look amazing..

  77. Christopher | 29/07/10

    She’s gorgeous in these new pics….just gorgeous….

  78. girly girl | 29/07/10

    I think she is a gorgeous girl, regardless! She’s probably working on getting her metabolism back, which can make you gain weight initially.

  79. girly girl | 29/07/10

    Oh, and I think I like longer hair on her better, but she may have cut it short for a tv/movie role or something. Anyway, you have to have a really pretty face to pull off that short of a haircut, so more power to her!

  80. Yana | 29/07/10

    She looks absolutely amazing, she even looks younger. Good for her, I hope she stays like that.

  81. Priscilla | 29/07/10

    Her face is so much prettier, oh my god. Really, a totally different person.

    I guess the main reason some might prefer the left picture is the unflattering dress in the right one. I’m quite sure about that.
    She has the body of a woman now and this dress is made for a girl.

    To me the left picture is scary… Honestly, these dimensions hurt my eyes. This is not what a body of a young woman is meant to look like. Those who like this body are really infected. Get some new ideas about beauty… You deny energy and life. What you are favoring is DEATH (visible skeleton) and a look that’s actually reserved for severely sick, weak people…
    Why should it be beautiful to keep your life potential at the lowest, to reduce your existance, to pretend to “hardly exist”. It’s denying your own will to live.

  82. Jane | 29/07/10

    I liked her better before.

    People shouldn’t be attacked for saying that they prefer her skinny. It’s just a simple question of taste: do you prefer skinny or not-skinny? Health is a separate issue.
    Yes, I know that it sucks that the drive to be skinny produces eating disorders. The fact is that most of us prefer the skinny look, but most of us in America can’t attain it (for various reasons — we eat too much, etc), and so we develop food issues. And then to try to combat those eating issues, we try to convince ourself that there’s no aesthetic difference between thin and chunky, that we prefer chunky to thin, etc. But in the end we do vote with our money and our choices, and skinny actresses and models are more successful than fat ones, and most of the girlfriends and wives of rich and powerful men are thin and beautiful (Pierce Brosnan is one exception that springs to mind), and the same goes for the wives of doctors and lawyers and other men that have their pick of women. So in the end I think that secretly or openly, as a society we do prefer thin. And those of us who openly admit our personal preference for thinness shouldn’t be subject to attacks.

    For those people in other countries who can be effortlessly naturally thin, saying that you prefer thinness is much less controversial. (Of course, being fat in those countries sucks even more, b/c all the skinny people around you don’t hide their disapproval.)

  83. Sian | 29/07/10

    @syrah, I think it does make sense that a lot of commenters are happy that she’s at a healthier weight but at the same time find her more attractive in the before picture: because we’re used to seeing super skinny people in the media and that body type is presented to us as physical perfection (for reference look into a Victoria’s Secret catalogue) we tend to want to look as skinny as possible. That doesn’t mean we don’t know that starving one’s body is healthy. No contradiction there.

  84. mer | 29/07/10

    Not sure what I think about her new look…

  85. araisis | 29/07/10

    i’m glad she decided to become healthier, she’s such a gorgeous girl.

  86. happygolucky | 29/07/10

    Wow, a huge improvement. She is a knockout now, very sexy. And such a beautiful face.

  87. Maggie | 29/07/10

    She’s a beauty, no doubt. She was unhealthy before, that’s so plainly obvious, it wasn’t her natural body weight…she appeared to be starving. Now, she looks so much healthier and you can see it in her eyes and in her complexion and hair. Sure she could be thinner, but so could a lot of people. She’s fine now.

  88. Lucy | 29/07/10

    I think she looks a bit odd in the outfit, I know her body is not big but she looks kind of thick. She looked too thin in 2008 but I think she might need some toning or something. Beautiful regardless.

  89. j | 29/07/10

    so much better!!!

  90. leopardgirl | 29/07/10

    Wow she looks amazing with the weight…still slender, but so healthy..and her face looks so gorgeous and glowy!!

  91. anon | 29/07/10

    Her skin just glows now! She’s got a stunning face, no matter what her weight.
    But I hope that people (especially here) realize that she was at an unnaturally low weight before, for her, and that it’s almost impossible to stay that thin for a long time. True anorexia stays with a person forever, but many celebs now do awful crash diets for a few months, get scary skinny and then slowly gain the weight back, only to face comments like “she’s gained so much!” or “she looked better before”. Be a consistent weight, a healthy one and you won’t have to worry about going up and down.
    If you think she looked better before, you’re spending too much time pouring over models and magazines – it’s not healthy. I wish someone told me that when I was a teenager. Sorry to be a drama mama.

  92. anon | 29/07/10

    PS. Any guy I know, thinks she looks better now. Who wants to snuggle bones?

  93. Laryssa | 29/07/10

    feeling the need to comment again.
    First, I wanna say, Rian, please do more of these when you can…. I am loving these debates and I think a lot of great stuff is being brought up right now…

    Personally, I am a nutritionist and I work out 6 days a week and I look pretty much exactly how she looks now. what people don’t understand about eating healthy, is that you should be your natural wieght, not skinnier or chubbier.

    being underwieght comes from LACK of food and LACK of nutrition. I have tons of friends who are as skinny as her in her “before” shot and it’s because they eat really bad. their body doesn’t have the capability anymore to be able to hold onto food so the food just goes right thru them (no stomach lining left)

    people who think this girl is chubby have issues. it’s sad that we have all gotten so f**k’d up since size zero came into fashion. My boyfriend looked at her before pic and got frieghtend… and he likes tinyer women… I think it’s all just gotten too outta hand. time for the pendulum to swing the other way.

  94. Sian | 29/07/10

    Btw, they had this slightly chubby girl on the show as a recurring character and I thought it was the greatest thing ever. CW shows are usually all about beautiful people and this girl was pretty but body-wise she didn’t fit the Hollywood mold, so to speak. I think it’d be great if we had a little more diversity on TV.

  95. Sian | 29/07/10

    In my first comment it’s supposed to be ‘unhealthy’, not ‘healthy’, sorry. That’s what I get for commenting in the middle of the night.

  96. amy123 | 29/07/10

    Wow she looks like a different person. I’m glad she gained weight. As you get older you gain weight, that’s all

  97. amaz | 29/07/10

    she looks so good! she’d look better if she was wearing something more flattering but overall she gained some much needed weight

  98. Jetta | 29/07/10

    Completely agree that she looks better with a few more pounds BUT 1) she needs to tone up those extra lbs and 2) she needs to change her fashion choices to compliment a fuller figure–

  99. lauren | 29/07/10

    WOW. SO BEAUTIFUL! I love her confidence and stature.

    To the shallow and insecure posters above who believe she looks “better” before: Jessica has a long, successful, happy and healthy life to live. Food should be enjoyed and eaten. Exercise in moderation. But anorexia will KILL. Is that what you all want? To die young? To live a miserable life? I pity you.

  100. Katie | 30/07/10

    Becuase clearly she had some issues before I’m not going to take cracks at her “arm chunk” as some people have called it. I think she looks amazing, honestly with a face that beautiful she was gorgeous then and now, but her body looks soooooo much better! Slim and healthy!

    @Laryssa- well said! I agree people should strive to be their natural weight regardless of their size! I’ve been underweight my own life and I eat very healthy and still have treats here and there, but people always give me crap about it and say I should eat junk more! I never knew eventually you don’t absorb the food?

  101. Obsessive Compulsive | 30/07/10

    I much prefer her AFTER. Her face looks very pretty and her skin is glowing. She kind of resembles a young Jennifer Connelly (as someone mentioned) and a brunette Charlize Theron. Her body is also terrific. I’m sure that she’ll tone her upper arms and thighs in no time.

  102. s.o. | 30/07/10

    She looks so much more glowing these days

  103. elle | 30/07/10

    i think she looked better before

  104. Anonymous Girl | 30/07/10

    Of course she’s going to look quite thick if you compare her to how she used to look before. If you were to compare anyone who lost a great amount of weight to how they looked after weight gain, they’ll look like they have chunky arms or thighs or whatever, but that doesn’t mean that they actually are.

  105. siennagold | 30/07/10

    Wow she looks waaay better now at a healthy weight. She was so skeletal skinny then. However, if she still does want to lose weight, I think losing 5 lbs wouldn’t hurt.

  106. greenbird | 30/07/10

    thank you, Laryssa.

  107. hanan | 30/07/10

    she look better ,,she probabley gained 15 lbs

  108. Katarzyna | 30/07/10

    I hate myself for prefering her skinnier, will I never learn?

  109. yin | 30/07/10

    her legs looked better before but not her arms and hips

  110. progressivelements | 30/07/10

    She looks like Jenny Schecter from the L-Word now! And that’s a very good thing. She’s beautiful.

  111. artemis | 30/07/10

    agree about the arms
    but good? did she look good before?????? omg haha are you serious?
    if i see somebody on the street as skinny as she was im like “:O poor girl”…hmm but that’s rare lol

  112. Liz | 30/07/10

    i liked her more in 2008.. it looked good on her!
    but her decision to gain weight and being healthier is smart and better for her body.

  113. Rebecca | 30/07/10

    she looked so unhealthy in the ‘before’ pic but i think she could stand to lose a couple pounds (mainly just toning the arms, i think her legs look great) now. most of this past season her body was in perfect shape, pretty much like the ‘after’ pic minus a few pounds.

    her face is really pretty, i think she looks better with darker hair though because it really brings out her eyes

  114. justathought | 30/07/10

    Its not about looks, its about health. I guess we have no real way of knowing her health in the before pic but id be willing ot bet she was underweight and unhealthy. I think she looks so much better now!! Shes just dressed wrong imo. I love her body now! I love the fact that she got healthy and didnt give in to the stick thin hollywood trend anymore! SUCH AN INSPIRATION TO ME TO BE HEALTHY!!!!

  115. justathought | 30/07/10

    @SIAN: who are you refering to with the “slightly chubby girl on the show as a recurring character”?

  116. Samaire | 30/07/10

    Now I understand why she used to be skinny. Her thighs don’t have a nice shape … maybe she should hit the gym.

  117. Chloe | 30/07/10

    i like her in the orange dress pic so much better.

  118. Mel | 30/07/10

    Wow she gained a lot of weight!! She may have gained too much back, but at least she looks healthy now :)

  119. HB | 30/07/10

    She looks like she needs a little muscle tone in the arms. But her face looks so much healthier and she looks a lot happier, so good for her. It’s a tough battle to fight.

  120. Moll | 30/07/10

    Although im partial to the super skinny look. I think its great she is healthy now, and she does looks like a women now. I do thhink she would look better if she lost a few pounds, and maybe toned up a bit.

  121. Jenna | 30/07/10

    Chunky arms? Hello? That is what arms look like, especially when shot from the side in a sleeveless dress. She looks so much better now and her legs look great. To see that definition in a photo means she must be toned.

  122. tikkatokka | 30/07/10

    she has such a pretty face! i think it looks even better with the extra weight on. and omg her legs are amazing! i love them now! slim and toned and curvy. beautiful

  123. Lily | 30/07/10

    OMG she looks like a female again! Yaaaaay for Jessica!

  124. Adanna | 30/07/10

    Wow, glad to see she’s been eating a couple burgers. Much improved!

  125. lara | 30/07/10

    I prefer her before … though maybe id change my mind if she was wearing something different.
    Jane great comment.

    She looks happier which is great, but I’d rather look like 2008!

  126. Livy | 30/07/10

    I think she looks GREAT! So much better! Before she looks frail and sickly, it’s alarming to see the stark difference.
    She’s a striking girl so that said I think she’d look even better with more flattering wardrobe and hair choices. I’m thinking the style she had before with the great body she has now.

  127. teebee | 30/07/10

    Good for her! she looks a lot better. I had to stop reading the comments, those saying she looked better skinny are killing me- she was sick!!

  128. kiki | 30/07/10

    OMG I hope Jessica does not read some of these comments, if she did have an eating disorder in the past then hearing some of this stuff would be enough to send her back into it. I think she looks stunning and she is toned and thinner than most people at her current weight anyway!

  129. Angie | 30/07/10

    She’s so cute now.

  130. jjj | 30/07/10

    Too bad, she looked much better before. She looks pretty good skinny, she has the right body type.

  131. R | 30/07/10

    If she is 5′8, I would say she was 105 lbs before and 140 lbs now. Making it a 35 lb difference. Who thinks this is accurate?

  132. R | 30/07/10

    BTW, she looks objectively prettier now, in my humble opinion.

  133. evamattiolo | 30/07/10

    she was more beautiful and sexy in 2008…she just was…

  134. Nique | 30/07/10

    @morticia, I so damn with you. We put this all to ourselves. We have to blame us first.

  135. glow | 30/07/10

    Jane, theere are not just two sizes-skinny & fat. There is a difference between bony, thin & fat. Plus there is alot of in between. Only people with issues find “bony” attractive. Slender or slim, on the other hand…

  136. saz | 30/07/10

    I think she is stunning at both weights. She has lovely skin and does look very healthy in the second pic.

  137. Ali | 30/07/10

    As with all celeb photos, in real life i bet she is absolutely tiny, even in the ‘after’ photos! And there is nothing wrong with her arms. In comparison my arms (although i am not overweight) would look gargantuan in a dress like that! Thank god I don’t want to be a hollywood actress……

  138. Stepgirl | 30/07/10

    I bet that her arms are very toned, it’s just a matter of the camera not being 3-dimensional. I have the most toned arms in person, but they don’t translate like that on film… I just think they look fat, which is silly.

    Anyhow, she looks georgeous now and has amazing legs.

  139. Sian | 30/07/10

    @justathought, I forgot her name, she had very red hair and was Navid’s girlfriend for a while but I don’t even remember her character’s name, sorry.

  140. asdf | 30/07/10

    Wow! Her face is GORGEOUS now!

  141. corrie | 30/07/10

    Hooray, she’s pretty again! Which isn’t to say she wasn’t still pretty, but she looks so much better now.

  142. Tee | 30/07/10

    wow, what a difference. I figured her ultra skinny look wouldn’t last forever

  143. Olivia | 31/07/10

    soooooo much better! she was so ridiculously skinny to the point where it was terrifying and hard to look at

  144. Leaf | 31/07/10

    The truth is she DO look way better on the normal-size side, but the hair-style makes her look hawfully worse. What were they thinkin’??? She looks good and healty, some tone wouldn’t hurt though . Kudos.

  145. justathought | 31/07/10

    @SIAN: oh Rumer Willis????

    @JANE: I agree that some ppl prefer thin and some fat, but in the first picture shes not just thin, shes SICKLY and anyone who likes that may issues of their own imo

  146. . | 31/07/10

    yuck

  147. Lauren | 31/07/10

    She looked so much better before – maybe if she toned up and didnt look so swollen she would be fabulous again :)
    ps: Vile dress

  148. NicolinaLaPlante | 31/07/10

    Wow, I cannot believe some of the comments I see. I understand, having issues with my body image as well, that the first pics do seem appealing, but I am happy that she has finally realized that the number on the scale is not what will drive your happiness and success. People need to stop JUDGING! That is what drives us all to these horrendous eating disorders in the first place. If she is smart she won’t listen to ignorant comments similar to the ones placed here.

  149. Stephanie | 31/07/10

    I agree with a couple others, the comments here make me sad. The before photo is clearly not healthy; she is not a naturally rail-thin girl. She definitely DOES NOT look swollen or untoned now. She’s in great shape! She’s practically glowing. At the most I could say that she could tone her arms more, but her legs are fantastic.

  150. Jj | 31/07/10

    i feel bad that i think the skinnier looks better too. i think she’d look best somewhere in between. right now she is just not looking so hot. She just looks out of shape to me.

  151. Sian | 31/07/10

    @justathought, no, not Rumer!! I think Rumer is tiny, I meant the red-headed one who also played in the band of Navid’s on-and-off girlfriend who is played by that actress that’s also named Jessica, Jessica something. I know that sounds confusing, sorry. She played in Jessica’s ‘band’ and dated Navid for a while. I might get back to you when the new season comes on :)

  152. pato | 31/07/10

    wow she looks stunning now! not a skeleton anymore

  153. DB | 31/07/10

    she kind of has hilary duff’s body..i prefered her ‘gaunt’ stage..but wish she gained like 5 lbs off that

  154. LaBalls | 1/08/10

    She looks great either way (I can never say I dont like the skinny) – Don’t like the dress though, she should wear something to emphasise her new curves! Gorgeous lady though.

  155. whyohwhy | 1/08/10

    she so looked better before…in the 2010 pic either the outfit is too tight or she looks like muffin tops are appearing!

  156. carrot | 2/08/10

    @ glow- “Dana- in this case it wasn’t between her face & her ass. She didn’t have one before. How is that good?”

    It’s not! Poor thing, how did she eat without a face? No wonder she was so skinny! Having a face is nice, glad she has one now. And she got a pretty one, too. Hope she doesn’t lose it again.

    Glad she’s returned to a normal weight and at least LOOKs healthy. For all we know, though, she’s living on Ho Ho’s, Margaritas and cigarettes, lounging on the couch watching tv all day. Battling sky high blood pressure, massive coronary heart disease and life threatening irritable bowel syndrome. But at least she looks healthy and has a pretty face, that’s good.

  157. Matilda | 2/08/10

    She looks so much better now. Not sure about her dress choice though.

  158. Fili | 2/08/10

    She should take a look at Annalynne. Seriously, not every eight gain is a “makeover”. She looked way better before.

  159. Cookies | 2/08/10

    I think she looks her absolute best in the February and May photos of this year. I can understand some people saying that if they had to pick one over the other, they’d choose the before, but I can’t understand anyone (over age 15) thinking that actually looks good.

    If I had to pick one of the two bodies for myself, I’d choose the before, just so I could have a ball eating whatever I wanted to gain five pounds!! Mmmm.

  160. carrot | 2/08/10

    @ chocolatelover- “I hate saying this, but i think she looked more beautiful before….from like the shoulders up.”

    I agree. She is certainly pretty now, but I found her stunning before. FROM THE NECK UP.

    @ Jane- I thought you had a very good point. And Pierce Brosnan’s wife wasn’t overweight when he married her. I seriously doubt he would have married her the way she looks now. Sad, but more than likely true. Not saying it’s right or fair, just that it’s, as you point out, the way that it is.

  161. observer | 2/08/10

    very puzzling that some people would find the before shot appealing. looks WAY better in the current.

  162. Matilda | 3/08/10

    @Jane, you’re right, nobody should be “attacked” for their preference but Jessica Stroup is in no way chunky now so your choice of words is way off the line.

  163. Beckster | 3/08/10

    Well, good for her for recovering from her ED! She looks absolutely fabulous. Clearly, a great many of us have very skewed perspectives…

  164. MelodySoul | 3/08/10

    Good for her, she looks a million times better now!

  165. Hadar | 4/08/10

    It’s soo great! She look very beautiful and good now
    Like a woman with boobs and pretty legs not like a man!
    is very good!!!

  166. Jackie | 12/08/10

    Wow!! This is great news. I was very concerned for her for a while. She used to look very unnatural like she might die at any moment. You can tell this is a much healthier look that suits her way better. Her legs look great & she looks a lot happier. Definitely a better role model for young girls. I just hope she keeps up her new figure & doesn’t go back to scary skinny.

  167. Kate | 12/08/10

    She looks stunning now! Way sexier, she actually has breasts now and a woman’s body.