Ricki Lake Has Lost Over 125 Pounds (Photo)

Freddy @ Gone Hollywood | Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Ricki Lake isn’t a fatass anymore, Noelle Hancock reports for Us Magazine.

Once weighing 250 pounds, newly transformed former talk show host Ricki Lake has revealed exclusively to Us Weekly the secrets behind her 123-pound, size-4 shape.

Lake, 38, who just debuted The Business of Being Born, her documentary about home birth and midwifery, sits down with Us and explains exactly how she got thin – and finally made peace with her shape after a painful past.

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.”

What painful secret caused Rickie to gain weight in her childhood? How did she feel posing in a swimsuit for Us? For all these details – and more exclusive pics – on Ricki’s dramatic (and non-surgical) slim-down, pick up the new issue of Us Weekly on newsstands now.

I think I’ll wait (or is that “weight”?) for the movie.

I’m Not Obsessed had their breath taken away by the cover. Jessie at Celebitchy felt her jaw drop. Then again, she thought it Sarah Jessica Parker “wearing a really bad bathing suit.” Michael K at Dlisted is much less impressed, claiming that his grandmother looks better in her swimsuit.

All this has Lisa Timmons nostalgic for the ’90s.

Ricki Lake Has Lost Over 125 Pounds (Photo)

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