Skinny VS Curvy

Elle Magazine says that Kate Hudson lost a lot of weight in the recent months. Here’s the exact paragraph:

Yes, this really is Kate Hudson. When ELLE met up with the actress in New York to shoot our December cover, we were pretty amazed, too. We’ve photographed and interviewed Kate before, of course, the last time for our April 2008 issue, some 20 months ago. But while the bright smile and easy-going persona were familiar, Kate’s incredible new body was something of a shock.
In the process of losing weight for a role in which she plays a terminally-ill woman, 30-year-old Hudson describes her body as ‘Pretty solid, actually. I’m not, like, 110lbs. But I’m probably heading towards that.’

Writer Choire Sicha meets Kate for lunch, but when she turns up at the restaurant she’s already eaten. Apparently, her meal consisted of some beetroot from a plastic container that’s now stained red and that, for no apparent reason, she will carry around for the rest of the day.

I would certainly not describe Kate’s weight loss as “shocking”, because she was always slim and still is slim. She’s 5′6”.

See Kate’s pictures from Elle Magazine HERE!

Check out one more recent pic of Kate after the jump!

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Tyra Banks (who lost over 20 pounds in the past months) just started a new movement “Get Your Shape in Shape!” and she’s dedicating an entire show to it. OK Magazine reports:

Tyra announced she will be dedicating the entire hour to answering audience questions and providing step-by-step tips on her new, healthy lifestyle.

“This is not a diet, I do not believe in diets, I have been on diets in the past they are a bunch of bologna, this is a lifestyle change,” Tyra says to her audience. “It’s not about being skinny, it’s about getting in the best shape that you can be. This is a Tyra Show movement.”

“If I can do it and love to lay up and not work out and I love me some BBQ ribs and some ice cream and some Haagen Daaz, I can do this and you can do this and still eat what you want, just not every second,” adds Tyra in her pep talk. “It is time to get your shape in shape!”

Tyra said she is proud to have lost weight the healthy way while maintaining her “34DD boobies and her round booty.”

What do you guys think about this?

… but works out 4 days / week. Here are the details from People:

Losing the baby weight is one thing – but keeping it off in preparation for the annual Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show is another for model mom Alessandra Ambrosio.

“Last year, because I had a baby and I had to lose pounds, I did a lot of cardio,” Ambrosio, 28, told PEOPLE at Thursday’s Los Premios MTV 2009 in Universal City, Calif. “This year is all about weights, squats and lunges.”

Ambrosio, a Victoria’s Secret model, gave birth to a baby girl, Anja Louise Ambrosio Mazur, in August 2008. Less than four months later, she hit the runway for Victoria’s Secret, showing off a stellar post-baby body.

“After I gave birth, my diet was a very healthy diet, like no sugar, no bread,” she says. “But now, I am just eating whatever.”

The solution? “I’m working out to prepare for the show because it’s our biggest show of the year,” she says. “I’m trying to work out four days a week.”

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New mom Jennifer Hudson shares some of her tips on losing the baby weight (she gave birth in August this year):

“The trick is getting back into your old ways. If I could go around eating like I ate while I was pregnant, that’d be the way to go. But you have to snap back to it. It’s like an on and off switch, you have to go back to the norm.”

“I’m still working on it. I’m eating right, exercising, cutting sugar out of my diet. That’s pretty much it, and walking every day, making sure I do some kind of exercise.”

See one more picture of Jennifer at the Whitney Museum Gala after the jump!

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Ladies’ Home Journal has a piece on Valerie Beritnelli’s weight loss… and it goes like this:

Only two years ago, around the time she and rocker Eddie Van Halen divorced, 5-foot-4 Bertinelli weighed 172 pounds. She had a wardrobe heavy on puffy sleeves, elastic waistbands, and what she and her boyfriend, Tom Vitale, called “granny panties.” Now she’s a rock-solid 128 pounds with no plans to return to “dressing in drapes,” as she puts it. “The weight is off for good,” Bertinelli declares, shutting the closet behind her. “My stick-to-it number is 132 pounds. But if I hit 130 on the scale, it’s time to lay off the mozzarella and get my butt out for a serious run.” The highlight, though, is Bertinelli’s scramble to get into bikini shape for the whole country to see.

“There was no hiding behind Spanx for that one,” Bertinelli says of the swimsuit reveal for Jenny Craig last spring. “I was hesitant, but I was working out so friggin’ hard.” Her trainer had her walking up to 20,000 steps a day and she monitored every morsel on her way to a remarkable 123 pounds. Why a bikini? “I thought, ‘Why not show this body off?’” Bertinelli says. “I’m almost 50 and I haven’t felt this good about myself since I was 16.” The image of Bertinelli in a green two-piece that appeared on the cover of People last April was so jaw-dropping that bloggers tried to prove her head was secretly Photoshopped onto the body of a younger model. It was not.

Bertinelli heads downstairs and into a living room replete with stunning views up and down the coast. “There are a lot of ways to eat. If you use food for comfort, that’s not okay,” she says, curling up on an oversize sofa. “I’m Italian and food is love, food is family. But food also makes you a real fatty if you’re not careful.” She’s quick to admit she has no answers — only strategies — for what works for her: Stop eating when you’re full. Eat what you want (within reason) but in small portions. Don’t leave tempting foods lying around. “It’s a constant challenge,” she says. Asked what she has learned by watching the former Jenny Craig spokesperson Kirstie Alley gain back her weight, Bertinelli says, “I understand it. What woman doesn’t? I told her to come work out with me. You need support. Otherwise it’s ‘I’ll start tomorrow, then tomorrow,’ and tomorrow never comes.” “I’ve realized I’m more important than food is. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It’s about saying you deserve to be healthy. In no way have I perfected this eating thing and I don’t know that I ever will,” she says. “But life is about making progress. It’s not about perfection.”

So what do you guys think?