Ricki Lake is Half the Woman She Used to Be

Ricki Lake is Half the Woman She Used to Be
Former talk show host, Ricki Lake, has dropped from once carrying a whopping 250 pounds to 123 pounds and is posing on the cover of Us Weekly to show off the fruits of her weight-loss labors. Most impressive is probably the fact that she went from a size 24 to a 4 without the use of surgery. From Us:

On crash dieting in 1991: "... I went on this extreme diet. I used to faint because I wasn't eating and I was always exercising."

On the most exciting thing about her new weight:
"For the longest time, when I was very heavy, I couldn't cross my legs. I couldn't physically do it. LOVE that I can cross my legs now ... Even my shoe size is changing. My Jimmy Choos are too big now."

On what she thinks of super-skinny actresses:
"I think I have no wrinkles because I always had fat on my face. Really skinny girls age so fast."


Most recently, Ricki's been working on a documentary entitled, "The Business of Being Born," which is all about home birth and Ricki is even featured giving birth, naked in a tub for the film. Well, good for her and all that jazz. But she is reminding me how much I miss the trashy talk ridiculousness of the mid-to late 90's, back when paternity tests and biker makeovers filled the airwaves as far as the eye could see.
Published 5/9/07 by


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