Ellen Pompeo Went From Size 25 to 26 Jeans While Pregnant
March 18, 2010 in Celebrity Quotes, Hollywood Moms by Versus
Let’s read the story from Huffington Post:
Ellen Pompeo, who gave birth to daughter Stella Luna in September, covers the April issue of Self magazine. In the interview, Ellen, 40, talks about how motherhood has changed her body.
On her pregnancy weight gain:
“I went up a pants size during my pregnancy. I was in size 25 jeans and went to 26. I gained 26 pounds. I weigh 10 pounds more than I ever have. I love it.”On criticism for being too thin:
“Everyone always told me I was too skinny before, and I thought, Oh, God, what if there are 14-year-olds who think I’m not eating, and then they don’t eat? Do I have a responsibility? Really, I don’t care if people think I’m too skinny. This is my body. If they don’t like it, screw it.”On healthy eating:
“Take a few hours and prepare lunch for the week. On Sundays, I premake everything for salads. I boil a dozen eggs and parboil beets. I chop lettuce, cilantro, scallions and parsley and put it all in Ziploc bags. During the week, I just grab handfuls, add dressing, dump in a can of beans, some goat cheese, and I’m ready to go.”
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She gained 26lb and only one jean size?
Probably because she gains mostly in her upper body? I have no idea. For me losing around 25-30 lbs meant 3 or 4 sizes in jeans so it is a bit weird…
Or must have been one heavy baby!
yeah, she must not carry weight in her legs. if i gain 10 lbs i go up a jeans size. i’m also assuming she didn’t button the jeans….
1) love that photo of her! she looks so pretty and i would kill for that dress.
2) i can see how you would only go up a pants size, maybe – because you would wear your pants below the belly, right? i’ve never had a baby, so i am no expert, but i think that is how it works…and i have known people who have gained less weight than she has, but they were also much heavier to start with….again, i have no idea how much on should gain.
3) i do feel bad IF that is her natural weight and she is getting picked on. i mean, she is very thin. but if that is how she is…its how she is. i mean, we see people who are a few pounds over ideal, and they get ripped apart for looking less than ‘ideal’…even though often its just how they are, and, i for one, defend them. so maybe she deserves a little sympathy too. i am not sure if that is the natural and healthy weight for her, and i am not total convinced…but i give her the benefit of the doubt and say we should just leave her alone…
she’s so pretty. i’m pretty sure she is naturally skinny. she has a very boy-ish body type. even with the weight gain, she doesn’t have a lot of curves. not to mention, her face has never been really gaunt or anything, which would happen if she wasn’t naturally thin. some people are just lucky, i guess.
I think she meant that she went up one jean size after her pregnancy, I highly doubt she meant DURING her pregnancy. Pregnancy does change your shape even if you lose all the weight. I have lost all the weight from 2 pregnancies, but the bust dropped one cup size from pre-pregnancy, and the waist is 1-2″ bigger, so while I can still fit into low-rise jeans (hips stayed the same), my regular higher-rise dress pants are still a problem!
that makes sense! thanks
“I went up a pants size during my pregnancy. I was in size 25 jeans and went to 26. I gained 26 pounds. I weigh 10 pounds more than I ever have. I love it.”
Yup, she also said she gained 26lbs during pregnancy but is 10 lbs more than she’s ever been right now (post-preggers), so to me, that made sense about one jean size up.
I always thought she was very beautiful but a little to thin. She looked cute preggers and I love how she admitted that she is only one size bigger than she was before pregnancy also before I read anything I thought she was complaining about the weight she gained but then I read her quote and everything was fine again.
I’m sorry, but she highly annoys me with all that weight talk. One time she says she’s naturally thin, then she says she (only?) eats salad for lunch every day in the week. She said she loves muffins, in the next interview she said she allows herself sweets only Sundays. She says she eats and she’s healthy, but she also said after those surgery scenes on “Grey’s Anatomy” she can’t eat for three days, because she’s so disgusted. And why being pregnant, almost every paparazzi photo showed her in gym clothes. She needs to get over herself.
*while being pregnant
I think she might be one of those people who are thin bc they don’t care about food all that much, they must remind themselves to eat etc. I know a bunch of those and it doesn’t mean the person wouldn’t love some sweets every now and then or that they wouldn’t like food per se.
Well, she also stated in an interview that she has to eat 3000 calories a day to keep her weight up. I don’t believe someone eats that much and is still underweight, without having a medical problem, which she said she hasn’t. I mean, they had to pad her scrubs on “Grey’s” because her spine was showing. That’s alarming.
ok i hadn’t heard that, maybe she’s just blurting things out before she thinks then, or lying.
She’s probably exaggerating, but I do believe she probably eats somewhere around 2700 calories to keep her weight up. It’s possible. It’s not about “fast metabolism” as people say, it’s about the fact that you lack fat cells to store fat and don’t build muscle easily. It’s just a certain body type.
I know for me at least, I eat 2700 to maintain. 3000 and I’ll start slowly gaining weight.
Perhaps she eats salads and limits her sweets because she’s trying to be healthy?
Being naturally thin doesn’t mean you can stuff your face with whatever you want. I mean, weight-wise, you still probably won’t gain much weight. But that’s not healthy, and even a thin person who has a bad diet can expect to have heart issues when they’re older.
Well, she also stated in an interview that she has to eat 3000 calories a day to keep her weight up. I don’t believe someone eats that much and is still underweight, without having a medical problem, which she said she hasn’t. I mean, they had to pad her scrubs on “Grey’s” because her spine was showing. That’s alarming.
Who is she?
I wish I could gain 26 pounds and only go up one size in jeans. I gain 5 pounds and have to pull out my fat pants! Haha.
She did seem to gain a lot of weight in her face. During her pregnancy they were careful to hide her body during Grey’s Anatomy but you could tell she had put on weight just looking at her face.
Gosh, she’s lucky, it’s almost unfair, lol! Seriously though, she’s pretty tiny and a lot of smaller people just wear the same jeans while pregnant just unbuttoned or stretch fabric. Unfortunately, I’m bottom heavy, so when I was pregnant…everything looked pregnant–my butt, my boobs, the basketball under my shirts
. Some people just carry differently. Sounds believable.
oh, a whole single jean size! fatass. nah, kidding. she’s irritating, though. i’d love to get below a 25 inch waist; i’ve been stuck at 25 for ages. 22 is the goal.
the size of your jeans is not the same with your waist; my waist is 23″ yet i wear 25 jeans. my butt and legs wouldn’t fit into a smaller size. but i wear belts for all my jeans.
So true. I have a 24 inch waist but wear a size 26 or 27 jean, because of my big bum/hips.
also, sick of celebs acting as if they’re sharing some deep wisdom when they talk about their diets. really, ellen, chopping veg ahead of time will help me later on in the week? i wish i had thought of that on my own!
Ugh, her salads sound delicious! I wish she’d prepare mine.
Mine all come from a premixed bag that spoils in four days.
I <3 salads.
please please please please stop with this ‘natural’ skinny nonsense. there is NO such thing. you chose what you weigh by the lifestyle you lead and everyone barring medical conditions( which are few ) can change their weight. i have been many different sizes in my life and i can honestly say its mostly down to habit. people get stuck in certain routines and because they are used to it, it feels natural. but no one is MEANT to be skinnier than anyone else.
While lifestyle is half the equation, genetics play a role too. Not everyone is meant to weigh the same and some people will always be thinner than others, regardless how of little they eat or how much they exercise.
Some people have faster metabolisms that other, “naturally.”
Some may have hypothyroid, some may have hyperthyroid. Yeah, diet has a huge role in a lot of peoples bodies and so does how active they are. Some people, though, just have the metabolism that makes them burn off whatever they want.
Not that I’m sticking up for Ellen Pompeo or anything. I can’t stand her, actually.
i said barring medical conditions. do you even know what metabolism means?? it is not an organ it is a catchall term for the rate at which you burn up fuel. it requires more energy to move a large weight than a small one- hence fatter people usually have faster metabolisms. they have done studies- proved this time and time again. get off the celebrity sites and look it up!
Are you kidding me?! There are A TON of people who can consume mostly whatever they want and still remain thin. Two of my roommates, for example, are trying desperately to put on weight. They eat endless amounts of junk every day and are unable to gain a pound. I workout on a daily basis and never go over 1,000 calories (though I realize that’s bad) and will still never be a thin as either of them.
Some people are just really fortunate and have fast metabolisms and naturally slim builds.
I’m sorry. this comment just really bugged me.
it has been proven that metabolisms vary by about five per cent max- its is fact. pure biology. genetics play a part in how tall you are, your bone structure, where you store weight etc. People of the same weight and height can still look very different. but the basics of being slim are the same for all of us, end of story. the variation in metabolism or genetics are very small.
amazon, I highly disagree with you.
While most people use the excuse, “fast metabolism,” or “slow metabolism,” what they truely mean is genetic varation. Varations in metabolism (hypertyhroid, hypothyroid) are medical conditions. The genetic variation I’m referring to is something different.
In terms of genetics, there are millions of things that could predispose people to be one way or another. It’s not just about how tall you are, or where you store fat. It’s every single protein ever involved in any part of the pathway from when your food enters your mouth to when it leaves your body or gets stored in your body. There’s genetic varation in how you metabolize sugar, fat, and protein (and we’re taking molecular metabolism, not thyroid). There’s varation in carrier proteins. There’s variation in types and amounts of storage. Guess what? If you lack protein carriers to carry fat and protein and bind it to existing muscle or fat cells, you’re gonna have a hard time gaining weight. Same with if you have excess carrier proteins. This is all encoded in our DNA, therefore, it’s genetic.
There’s a pretty big explanation why big people tend to have big children and skinny people tend to have skinny children, even when the children did not live with their parents.
It’s not just a matter of people not wanting to change because it’s too hard or requires too much effort. For some people, that effort required to change requires going to unhealthy extremes…such as starvation or extreme food intake. Although I believe anyone make a reasonable effort to gain or lose 10-20 pounds, anything more than that really depends on one’s body.
Of course, most people fall somewhere between those two extremes. They could gain weight if they ate more, and lose weight if they didn’t. But there are some that have a really hard time gaining or losing weight. To say otherwise is naive.
Kae is right: genetics plays a large part too. It isn’t as if all the people who are slim are living on grated carrots, water and running in giant hamster balls 24/7. What about some East Asian people? Many are much smaller-framed than white people. It isn’t as if the East Asian population are sleepwalking on treadmills to be that size.
My brother eats lots of junk food, doesn’t exercise and yet he’s extremely slim. I don’t exercise a lot (I know I should), have never dieted apart from to support my husband and I have always been slim. My mother has never exercised in her life and also eats a lot of junk food, but she’s still the slimmest of her siblings and her friends. Only one size bigger than me.
I don’t like getting some not-so-nice comments from people who believe that thin is never natural. I don’t get it here in Europe, but I certainly got it a lot in North America. For example, women at restaurants blatantly watching my every move and discussing what I’m going to order out loud (sometimes I have been on the opposite side of a packed restaurant and could still hear they were talking about me) and when they see it’s not a salad, rationalising that I must be one of those who barfs it up later. The second I go to pee, they would yelp, ‘Hup! There she goes to vomit! Told ya so.’ What’s even worse is that this type of behaviour is seen as perfectly acceptable, yet if I were to comment on them being overweight I would be crossing the line. It seems I deserve to be scrutinised, judged and humiliated in public because people believe thin is not natural and that all thin women are to blame for everyone else’s body insecurities.
Well said Ella
I like the fact that ppl have thought that i’ve been anorexic, and have had me go to doctors etc even though i wasn’t. in fact, i ate tons of junkfood, sodas, mcdonalds everyday and i didn’t gain anything. but yeah, i was size zero (naturally, i had no bones sticking ut like Victoria Beckham) so then it must have been something wrong with me.
It’s always ok to judge thin people, saying they’re anorexic or eating very little and exercising exessive a lot. But, when it comes to slightly overweight/obese people, specially women – it’s oh, the end of the world. Then we have to feel sorry for them, we can’t look, we can’t be distgusted by all the junk they put in their mouths and slowely letting themselves go.
I hate it, why is it ok to look down on thin ppl while ppl are getting bigger and bigger? It’s messed up!
The average size in the US shouldn’t be size 14 when it’s not in other countries. It sickens me.
two facts- east asians have a different bone structure, which may explain a light weight but doesn’t mean they will retain less fat. their diets are very different from wetsern diets and those that are exposed to western eating are often heavier, in fact overall weight has increased within this population in recent years, as has their height because of exposure to western dietary habits.
second- i am not suggesting even for a second that we should blame slim women for anything. i am doing the opposite. i am saying that the weight we are is entirely our own personal responsibility. that each and everyone of us can be slimmer, or be fatter. what ever it is that we chose. the whole genetics line is convenient way of abdicating responisbilty. It always has been. Truth is most of us get into habits and jiust stick with them- they are hard to change. we eat without thinking or even realising we are eating. even weight watchers is changing its emphasis and targeting building awareness and healthy habits.
What, so everyone has the same frame do they? Ellen obviously has a tiny frame, as its not like she has really broad shoulders or wide hips or a wide rib cage! Just by having a small frame it is more natural for her to be slimmer that other people who have larger bones….
She can’t increase her frame, all she would be able to do is put on a bit of muscle and fat, and why should she have to do that if she doesn’t want to?
did you read what i said at all? i never asked her to put on weight. i have no issue with the weight she is, nor do i think she should change. i would even argue that it is natural, in that for her it is a weight she is happy with and happy to maintain. my argument is against those who say oh she probably stuffs her face but has a fast metabolism, isn’t she lucky. she is talking about pre cutting her vegetables- how do you read stuffing her face out of that? I admire anyone who is dedicated to maintaining a healthy diet and exercising. can’t say i don’t struggle with my sweet tooth myself.
OH WOW, from size 0 to size 2? Oh boy, what a big deal. Our media sucks for even making this a deal, at all.
I really like Ellen’s view on things however, she seems like a very good role model.
Why do you say that? It’s newsworthy if someone goes from 8 to 10 then? Or 10 to 12? I think it’s just as legitimate to make her newsworthy as anyone else because there are women in the world that share her body type.