Jessica Simpson & Weight Watchers
Jessica Simpson tweeted that Weight Watchers has put no pressure on her to lose weight. I believe that. They don't want anything to happen to Jessica. I do think they would love love love if she lose all her weight as fast as possible because it would sell more plans, but as long as she ultimately loses the weight, that is all they really care about. I think the problem here is that Jessica is probably putting a whole lot of pressure on herself to lose weight. She should lose weight because she wants to or doesn't want to. It's tough to have to lose weight because someone is paying you to lose weight. Can you imagine if the the whole world was watching you everyday to see if you lost weight? Since the beginning of this year I have been on a diet and I have gained and lost 30 pounds. Twice. And I don't have anyone watching me. Apparently Jessica weighed 210 pounds at her heaviest and needs to get down to 130 for her big Weight Watchers payoff. I think she should just forget about it and do what she wants and get there when she can.
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Wow her boobs are HUUUUGGGEEEEE!!!!! Jesus Christ.
Well she signed the dealio so that's the gig.
Frankly, it's probably good for her to be forced (via contract) to lose the weight because I strongly suspect that if she was left to her own devices she might never lose it at all.
Am I right or am I right? You know I'm right...
Problems of the rich. I don't care.
Ms Cool right? And believe me, I could lose 80 pounds if someone was paying me 3 or 4 mill.
I don't need to lose weight, but if someone was paying me...my ass would be in the gym!
Doesn't WW give their endorsers a personal chef/minion to make sure that they stay on plan? I doubt Jessica is not being given help to stay on track. She may not need the weight off in one month, but I would imagine she will be in breach of contract if she doesn't lose it in a certain period of time. I'm sure both WW and Jessica are putting some pressure on.
She signed the deal, so she needs to follow the plan. It sucks, but it's the suck she signed up for.
I'm finding it pretty hard to lose my baby weight and it's been six months. My mother has been dropping snarky comments here and there and it really hurts. Being in my late 30s with a spinal fusion isn't helping matters. But my husband is so supportive, and for that I'm appreciative. I read in one book that it's 9 months up, 9 months down. I know J Simp signed up for this, but I cannot fathom the world scrutinizing my every move.
This poor woman just had a baby also. Everyone should leave her alone.
People need to back off with the judgement of Jessica. I have never been a huge fan, but let the woman alone. She JUST had a baby, and losing the weight in a healthy way is a good model for millions of normal woman out there struggling to lose weight.
I agree Enty, I hope she losses the weight on her own time for her own reasons, and all those people that don't like it, can all shut their pie holes!
If she is breast feeding, like she says she is, she should be losing weight a little more quickly. HOWEVER, once you stop doing that, and if you continue to eat like you did when you were breast feeding, you tend to put it right back on. Trust me, happened to me twice.
I have to agree. I think if it was up to her, she would stay the way she is. Her singing/"acting" career is pretty much over.
And its nice to see someone use her correct weight at her heaviest (210). I weighed 186 when I delivered my first daughter and there was NO way I was as big as Jessica. 170 my ass...
I'm just annoyed that she will be making so much money from this. I wish Weight Watchers would pay me a fraction of that amount to do their program since it actually costs normal people $$ to do it.
Your mom's being a jerk. Tune her out and do your thing. Or tell her , youre really hurting my feelings at a time when I already feel terrible. Was that your objective? Ive saud it before: do not mess with cdan-ers! We will take u down, lol.
I thought I heard she had a C section so isn't she not able to do much athletically for a while anyways?
On a side note about celebrity weight loss in general. If you have nothing else to do for the day and you can pay someone to come yell at you for hours I'm sure it's a lot easier. Especially if you can also have a personal chef.
ah. you know - I think Jessica Simpson is probably not the sharpest tool in the shed but she comes across as somewhat sweet and normal. gotta say it was kinda nice to see a prego celebrity who actually gained weight like a normal person... Losing weight is hard. If it was easy everyone would be a size 2. It has to be 10 times harder with the world analyzing the size of your ass.
@yawnathon: my mom can make me feel awful. Sometimes I think it's their job. You take your time, it'll happen. Sometimes these things work for you and not against you - a year after I had my son, I was the thinnest I've ever been.
if she wasn't going to lose the tonnage she gained, she shouldn't have signed that contract.
WW doesn't involve crash dieting, nor do they condone it. so i assume they gave her a reasonable amount of time to get it off. if she can't lose it, or doesn't want to, then she should simply not get that 3 million bucks.
she's always had a fat person inside her fighting to get out, and it saw its chance when she got pregnant and emerged. if she wants to stay that way, fine. but no money from WW.
Oh poor, poor Jessica. She's getting paid millions of dollars to lose weight and be healthy while every woman on the planet has to do it without a trainer, without a nanny, and without an incentive. If I had to lose weight, I would LOVE it if someone paid me for it AND pressured me a tiny bit as a kick in the ass.
It's wrong if they want her to do it in an unhealthy way, but I don't feel the least bit sorry for her if it's not all about "how she wants to do it" or "for her own reasons." If she had it her way, I'm guessing she'd stay just the way she it. She's lucky.
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as far as i'm concerned she put the pressure on herself by being greedy. Nobody forced her to sign a $4 million deal. We should all have such problems...
WW is a fantastic way to lose weight. If she sticks with the program and does a moderate exercise program, she'll get there. I really need to lose 15 to 20 pounds and I would hate to think the whole country was watching and tabloids were just waiting to pounce with their "isn't she fat?" pictures and headlines.
I am sure she;ll eventually lose the weight. And then she'll gain a bunch back. She always does.
It took me about a full year to lose my baby weight. Its not very easy to lose weight especially when you are busy trying to be a mother! Ignore negative comments and be happy you have a supportive husband and a new beautiful baby :)
Oy vey, Yawn, why do the Mums do that? When I was pregnant I went to my Mom's house and in front of other people she said "Your ass is getting big!" Well, ya, I was 6 months pregnant at the time.
I thought WW was about losing weight in a slow and healthy way? I'm not sure because I've never done it, but I hope Jessica does whatever the hell she wants and if she can make a few mil, then good for her.
I despise Jessica Simpson and I have no sympathy for her. She puts herself out there so she has to deal with it. No one forced her to sign a deal but she did. Business is business. It's about time she started acting like an adult.
And like others said, she has $$$ at her disposal, she can hire a trainer and a cook and still have all day to spend with her child.
But seriously, cute, dim and sweet are not traits that should let you coast in life.
Why, dear Lord (or not) would any consumer spend money to sign up for Weight Watchers/ buy WW products because some famous person(who is really famous for no achievement) was paid 4m to lose weight?
What is wrong with us?
Boo friggin hoo.
Is she made better food choices while pregnant she would have to lose as much now. Another site (can't remember where, I think NYDN) said she was eating poptarts and other health fare like that.
enty, i agree. when you put undue stress on yourself it is so hard to lose it. especially after having a baby.plus, it does more long tern damage to your body- as in lose your boobs!
and me too califblondy- although it was my grams and aunt. they'd say you are planning to lose the weight-aren't you?
I was one of the pregnant people that didn't buy maternity clothes (Don't hate, @Frufa). I just wore skirts with elastic waists and long stretchy tank tops/t-shirts. Well, after I had the babies I found I had nothing to wear because that look DOES NOT work on the jiggly belly you wind up with post-pardom. When my Mom and I were about to leave one day , I said "Ugh, I don't think this top is very flattering on me right now". Since my Mom does't have a mean bone in her body, she replied "But you looked FANTASTIC in that outfit you were wearing when I got here". They were my pajamas! But I wore them to Costco anyways :)
I don't think it would be a bad thing if she took her time losing the weight. Then they could play off the fact that even celebrities are like us! We struggle hard to lose weight and so do they. Might make it seem like a more realistic diet plan. imho
Losing weight never worked for me. I would look at the scale and cry. My clothes were too big, I was losing inches, but the scale wasn't budging. Finally, I asked my fitness buff friend, "What do I need to do? More water? More cardio? What?"
His response was, "Stop looking at the scale."
I stopped paying attention to my weight at that point. Especially since I keep having to buy smaller clothes every few months.
If weight watchers were smart they would have her lose the weight slowly. That way they won't have those new members quitting when they don't lose the weight as fast.
@Mischievous - so true. I am currently making some lifestyle changes and my monthly weigh ins with my trainer were getting me so depressed. But then I notice the inches are coming off as well as my body being able to do amazing feats of strength I could never do when I started out. So yes, the number on that scale does not determine your health.
It just took me 20 seconds to realize it was an a-hole move to talk about my mom's nice comments when I know it would be hurtful if my Mom threw some snark my way when I was already feeling badly about myself.
Sorry girls (*blushing*)
I did have a male customer one time tell me I needed to get back to my gym routine because i was looking heavy. (I was 22 and had gained 5 pounds over the holidays). I politely (I don't know why) told him how much he had hurt my feelings, and then burst into tears after he left. I feel the best way to deal with shi*ty comments are to make the person hurling them feel very small
@Mischievous Angel--losing inches and not pounds means you're gaining muscle. :) That's a good thing! The scale is evil, in my opinion. I used to weigh myself every single day, and it was a HUGE mistake. Inches and how you look are what matter. Without the scale I'm way less cray than I was before.
If she doesn't want the pressure, then why sign the contract? It was totally optional. I don't even understand the outrage. She had options. She took the money, now do the work.
Why is it that men, and one that claims he is so overweight, always concern themselves with a woman's weight. Not your problem, not your issue.
210?! That was my playing weight as a 5'10" 18 year-old. She's, what, 5'
5" tops? Good lord.
My daughter is seven months old, and I'm smaller now than I was pre-pregnancy. There's no real magical pill to postpartum weight loss - you eat well (especially if you're breastfeeding) and you try to be a little more active. The hardest damn thing is accepting the changes to your body - but then again, I also didn't gloat about eating buttered poptarts during pregnancy...
I'm not gonna criticize her for her weight. It is hard as heck to lose.
There's absolutely a double standard when it comes to women and weight loss. That said, Jessica made a huge point to talk about her weight and diet during her pregnancy. It's already effing hard to lose baby weight, and it's got to be even harder when you treat pregnancy like an inner fat kid is running the show. I just hope she takes it as it comes, enjoys being a mom and comes to terms with how different her body is now that she's given birth.
I think she'd rather be portly and happy eating what she wants. Its hard to be rail-thin in Hollywood and its hard to be fat in Hollywood (for different reasons, obviously).
I think Britney would like to eat what she wants and get fat too.
I think they should both move back to their home towns, take all their loot and live their lives the way they want. I mean, they are both filthy rich, right? Go, have fun with your kids. I've been preaching that for years...no one listens to me... :(
Katie Holmes contract over...Divorce
Of course she's going to say WW's isn't putting pressure on her. Is she going to make a statement that her weight loss sponsor is mean and turning the thumbscrews??
If I were JS and had her money at my disposal I would have three personal trainers on staff as well as two chefs making me delicious, low cal/low carb delicacies to nosh on. And I would make sure that the housekeeper didn't bring any fattening snack foods in the house. The old ball and chain boyfriend would have to do the Kirstie Alley trick of eating a pie in his car in the parking lot if he wanted a snack.
Jesus H. Christ, first there's all the speculation of "is it a baby bump or is she just fat?" and then comes the endless judgment of how fast the moms can lose the weight. It's all pretty obnoxious, not to mention misogynistic. I don't know how Hollywood women endure the non-stop body scrutiny.
All I know is that since she made her personal weight loss journey public for monetary gain, she better get used to the comments on her size. But really, 210 pounds at her height?!
I think she'll be just fine.
I think Jessica has been really depressed for a long time now. I'm inclined to give her a pass. I don't think her life is turning out like she thought it would
It took me a year to drop the 50 I gained. This Hollywierd trend of dropping all the weight in just six weeks is not feasible for all people. Hope she takes it slow and the healthy way.
She shouldn't have eaten so much crap while she was pregnant.
Eating for two is a myth....you just need more vitamins and nutrients than normal like 500...
It doesn't mean that you should be pigging out.
Which she was doing.
Now she wants to lose the weight she gained....if she had eaten with moderation and healthy she wouldn't being crying today about the pressure.
She shouldn't have taken the contract...she doesn't need the money and you know she will gain all that weight back b/c she has no self control.
She put herself in a box b/c everyone ( including me) are expecting her to fail.
She will be fine.. think she wanted a little motivation. I'f it doesn't pan out she will be overweight and have her hundreds of million dollar fashion line to fall back on.. Give the girl a break.. She's been a cash cow since her teens, if she wants to be a cow big deal..
I like Jessica Simpson but I'm not impressed with a celebrity losing weight with Weight Watchers, SlimFast or any other product simply because I don't believe it. These people can get stomach surgery, liposuction and everything else the average person can't afford. Weight Watchers should start using real people in their ads - I'd find them a lot more believable.
If she's breastfeeding (and only that; no bottles of formula on the side) and eats normally, she should be able to lose at least some weight; a friend of mine who started out her first pregnancy heavy ended up losing a huge amount of weight due to pumping milk for her son for 3 years. (There are autoimmune issues in the family, and the docs felt that keeping him on breast milk as long as possible would reduce the likelihood of his getting sick, hence the long haul.)
In a way, I wish she hadn't signed the contract, because it is a lot of pressure to put on yourself when you're already exhausted and sleep-deprived; having said that, if she really was eating buttered Pop-Tarts (and who the hell puts butter on Pop-Tarts, anyway?), assuming she'd just lose the weight anyway, that was a very foolish thing to be doing. No matter what, I hope she gets to a weight that makes her comfortable and happy, and does it safely, whatever said weight might be.
My prediction is she will be off to a slow start & then start losing weight at a breakneck speed in 6-12 mos. Can't take phentermine or go under the knife until you're done breastfeeding...
WW worked for me but it's not a miracle cure, it's basically more of a lifestyle change. Out here, they recommend losing about 1 to 0,5 kg per week, so she has a ways to go.
My mom used to make comments about weight and how I looked (not from a baby, just fat here) and one day I turned and asked her "Would you walk up to a stranger and say that to them?" and she looked embarrassed and said "Well no..." and I said "Well you are supposed to LOVE me and you said it to me and it hurt my feelings."
She never did it again. Take your time new moms and enjoy your babies. You will have plenty of time to be gorgeous --they are only tiny once....just do the best you can do.
You guys are the best. I truly mean that. @Car54, I'm copying your last two sentences and putting them in the notebook on my phone so I can look at it as often as I like.
It's so funny - the mother/daughter relationship. If anyone else made the comments she makes to me I would brush it off. Something about it being my mother cuts so deeply.
Right? I'm the Chesty LaRue in my family, and I like to wear empire-waisted tops in the summer (because it's so goddamned hot in New Orleans). My mom would always undertake the requisite steel magnolia sideeye, with a gently reproving, "So my neighbors are wondering if you're fragrant with child."
Thanks, Mom. Sigh.
@yawnathon its great that your husband is very supportive. Ignore your mum's comments (i too have to deal with my mum too when she's being 'honest' :P)
it'll fall of eventually. in my job ive seen bitches, i mean girls jeje, who drop the weight, like, instantly, and others take +1year. but it comes off in the end.
and anyways, you have your little family to cuddle with, which is FAR more important :) :)
@Sunny jaja love the pyjamas anecdote :)
No fair! I was 210 and my goal weight is 135. I lost 50 in 6 months and I'm stuck in the last 25 maybe bc nobody's paying me? Yes that's it! No really I haven't changed a thing and I've been stuck for 5 gd months.
Um, Weight Watchers SHOULD be pressuring her. If she is taking their money, then she ought to be holding up her part of the bargain. That's how business works. You can't sign a multi-million-dollar deal and then go, "Boo hoo, this is too hard! Stop pressuring me!" Either she should start losing weight or she should give back the money.
She's 5'3, so 210 lbs is a lot of wight for an almost 10 lbs baby. If she hasn't changed her attitud since her MTV show, then I doubt she's breast feeding. Prob pumping. Other (real) actresses gained 70+ lbs during pregnancy and lost it rather fast. Jessica doesn't have the self discipline this requires so I don't think she'll make it. Is there a time limit?
She shouldn't have eaten everything she wanted being pregnant. As someone who is short and 5 lbs shows on me. I gained 40lbs being pregnant and I could've been 5 lbs. She should've exercised. That's the key.
Every year my job has a Biggest Loser contest in January. Every year that person is me up until the contest when thinking about dieting makes me gain at least 10lbs. I don't win any money, but that kinda still makes me the Biggest Loser. ;)
Weight Watchers stresses that you lose no more than 2 pounds a week in order to stay healthy and keep off the weight for the rest of your life. I hope Jessica does it the smart way and just enjoys her precious time with her beautiful baby.
I have zero sympathy for Jessica Simpson. While some women do gain a lot of water weight, during pregnancy, Jessica gained a lot of weight by eating for 4! I believe this was on purpose due to her contact with WW, or she just decided to use pregnancy as an excuse to eat unhealthy and not be physically active.
For a normal weight woman, the average weight gain should be about 25-35 lbs. Yes, some women gain more and some less, but Jess gained 80 lbs!! She has no one to blame but herself. Her advisor from WW should have told her NOT to gain excessive weight for the company, because it was going to be hell to lose it.
From as far back as high school, teachers have always said DO NOT use the scale as the definitive weight loss tool, go by inches lost. This is NOT new, so why do people bang their head against the wall and continue to obsess about the scale not budging when they're trying to lose weight. I don't get it.
i have a neighbor that has been on this diet for about a year. she has stuff that she gets in the mail to drink an and some kind of bars to eat as snack. she said she lost 30 lbs, but i saw her yesterday and she was back in her moo-moo. there is no secret to losing weight. its hard and it kind of sucks. unless you are willing to be hungry and work out, probably not going to happen.
I'm sure WW isn't pressuring her -- BUT. A contract is a contract and its own pressure. Jenny Craig paid Monica Lewinsky only about a third of the $1 million when Monica didn't lose all the weight she agreed to under contract. That said, if Jess loses the weight, WW has proven to be great at keeping JHud in beautiful ads for years and years now, and Jess actually is stunningly savvy as a businesswoman.
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