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

Tori Spelling took to her twitter account late last week, arguing that she weighs 107 pounds, and not the shockingly thin 95 pounds that the magazine article claims.

From Tori’s twitter:

Star Mag…LIES! Literally not 1 factual thing in entire article. And, come 2 my house&weigh me Star! I’m 107lbs. if you care about FACTS?!?

The Star Magazine article claims that Tori was rushed to the hospital two weeks ago for severe abdominal pain, dizziness and headaches. After several tests, doctor could find nothing wrong with her so they sent her home, but she was back a couple days later with the same complaints.

Nowhere in the actual article does it state she weighs 95 pounds, however. I guess Star just throws any old claim on the cover to sell more copies of their magazine!

According to her own admission, however, Tori Spelling is underweight. At 5′6 and 107 pounds, her BMI is only 17.3 – well within the ‘underweight’ range!

For those of you who wanted to know how Ashlee Simspon lost her baby weight so quickly and so effectively, here’s the secret:

She lucked out with good genes and simply worked out for 3 months.

After delivering her son Bronx Mowgli, now 8 months, Ashlee Simpson-Wentz was prepared for an uphill battle when it came time to shed the pregnancy pounds and regain her figure.

But she was pleasantly surprised to find that she quickly bounced back with little effort on her part, she tells Celebrity Baby Blog.

“After I had Bronx I lucked out,” the actress-singer admits. “I mean, I’m 24-years-old, [I have] the genes from my mother and I did work out for three months.”

I guess some people have all the luck! Ashlee is however good friends with skinny mother-to-be Nicole Richie… perhaps they traded baby weight loss secrets?

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The Hills actress Stephanie Pratt shares her shocking bulimia secret in the June 29th 2009 issue of US Weekly. According to the article, Stephanie started on the show in early 2008 at 5′7 and 108 pounds, but was so intimidated by her “thinner” costars that she began making herself throw up every day from June-August 2008. In between purging, she went on wild binges and generally suffered from self-hate.

Here are some highlights from the article!

Q: What made you worry about your weight?
A: There was a scene where I was sitting in class with Lauren [Conrad] and I was wearing a blue and white striped cashmere shirt. Seeing that episode, I was horrified. I remember saying, “I cannot believe how huge I look walking over to Lauren,” even though I was a size 0 or 2.

Q: What happened?
A: I was so consumed with my weight and my depression about being She-Pratt on the show. [...] I started eating my emotions. I would go to California Pizza Kitchen and get macaroni and cheese off the kids’ menu. I’d also eat pizza, grilled cheese, fries with ranch dressing. Really good junk food.

Q: What was a typical day?
A: I would wake up in a good mood and I would try to “eat thin.” I would drink a spoonful of balsamic vinegar, thinking it would make me not hungry, and then I would drink water with cayenne pepper. And then I would read some blog and it would say, “Why is She-Pratt on the show?” I felt so bad about how people responded to me that the lettuce and vinegar thing was out and I was ordering pizza. ‘The Hills’ crew would be coming over, and I’d make another run to the corner to Cafe Vida and get grilled cheese and french fries. The crew would be sitting down by my front door and I’d be sitting in my room, stuffing it down, not even tasting it. And then I’d go and throw up and I’d let them in while I was brushing my teeth. It was the only thing that felt good.

Q: Why did you do it?
A: [...] Growing up, I was always super-skinny, a size 24 or 25 waist. I would get stopped in the streets. They would say, “You’re so skinny. Are you a model?” To keep that attention I made sure I never gained weight.

Q: That affected how you saw yourself on TV?
A: I was called the fat girl on The Hills. A lot of the blogs would say, “She needs to do squats.” “Quit The Hills, get to a gym.” [...] I felt insecure next to Audrina and Heidi, the girls I’m with the most. The producers never put pressure on us to lose weight, but i put it on myself because we were always having pool parties. When we filmed in Hawaii, I remember taking off my shirt and asking Audrina, “What looks better? Shirt on or off?” and she said “On.”

Q: How are you focusing on being healthy now?
A: I did a food-delivery service, Freshology, for two months that had 1110 to 1200 calories a day. It definitely got me healthy. Now I’m eating eggs, sushi, edamame, reduced-fat string cheese. [...] Now I do spinning once a week at Equinox. I do the elliptical for 30 minutes when I’m home, once or twice a week. I walk my dog every day and also ride horseback.

Wow… that is quite a confession!

It sounds like she is now on a very low fat/low carb/low calorie diet, which some would argue isn’t very healthy either.

So what do you all think?! Do you think she’s being truthful or is this simply yet another publicity stunt for the show? I hope that if she is truly suffering from an ED that she gets the real help she needs and not just another diet plan!

Story/Quote Source: June 29 2009 issue of US Magazine

Mom-of-two Lisa Rinna was recently interviewed in an issue of US Magazine about how she keeps her figure slim and toned. She claims to exercise “six days a week, often for two hours at a time” and eats a clean diet with lots of whole grains and veggies. Here are a couple of snippets from the article…

Her Diet:
“I eat clean, which means no processed foods,” Rinna tells US of her 1,800-calories-a-day diet. It also means no alcohol or soda, which, says Rinna, “are big when it comes to cellulite.” Instead, the actress, who used the Sunrider meal-delivery service during her pregnancies, sticks to whole grains, veggies, fruits and nuts, plus organic meat, cheese, eggs and yogurt. “I’ve noticed a shift,” she says. “My body has gotten very lean.”

Her Workout:
“I dance at least a couple of times a week,” says Rinna (who released a dance workout DVD, Dance Body Beautiful). “I run 30 to 45 minutes and do light weights.” Also in the mix? Pilates plus spin classes at Train in West Hollywood. And she works out with a personal trainer once a week. “It’s quite varied,” she says of her fitness regimen. Still, even the seemingly flawless have issues. “I’m insecure about my stomach after two kids,” she says. “I’m always doing situps.”

Lisa is 5′6, 115 pounds, has a 24-inch waist and wears a size 0. (52 kilos/8 stone 3 lbs).

Here is a photo of Lisa signing copies of her book at a Borders in NYC last week… it looks like all the exercise has paid off!

Photos via SplashNews; Quote Source: US Magazine, June 1 2009 issue

Miley Cyrus tells everyone boldly to “stop calling her fat” in the latest issue of Life & Style Magazine. Despite flattering bikini photos that surfaced recently, malicious rumors stating that Miley is fat have allegedly been circulating on the ‘net.

The very short article unfortunately reeks of a publicity stunt…

During a recent trip to the Bahamas, Miley took to her Twitter account to defend her bikini body. “Talk all you want… No more late-night Lucky Charms,” she wrote on May 15th, after posting that she’d jiggled her thighs and “they shook on their own.” She continued, “I have my flaws, I’m a normal girl. There are things about my body I’d change, but stop calling me fat in posts. I don’t even like the word.”

Then to make things confusing, Miley goes on to defend her thigh jiggle (although she had just been complaining about it):

For now, Miley seems to be sending the message that even celebrities have normal bodies. “If your thighs don’t jiggle, go see a doctor,” she wrote on Twitter.

Okay…

Here are a couple of pictures of Miley out shopping with her sister in Studio City earlier this week:

Photos via SplashNews

She looks cute and healthy to me!

Quote Source: Life & Style, June 1 2009 Issue