Tina O’Brien, the former Coronation Street actress admits she hired a personal trainer to get her post-baby figure back. Tina and partner Ryan Thomas, 24, had daughter Scarlett in October and was determined to slim down as soon as possible. She says:

‘My trainer was fantastic because it’s not easy on your own, especially in winter.

At first, the last thing I wanted to do was get fit and lose weight, and with Christmas coming up I could have happily just sat and slobbed out. But I met Paul and he really got me geered up.’

Tina, 25, admits she found it hard to accept her generous curves.

‘You just feel frumpy, and you’re in a transitional period being a mum, your life becomes totally devoted to your child, which is an amazing feeling, but because of that you end up sitting in your slobs covered in sick.’

Strictly Come Dancing host Tess Daly insists she’ll be in no rush to lose weight after giving birth to her second child. Tess and hubby Vernon Kay already have four-year-old daughter Phoebe together. She said:

‘I’m lucky my other half thinks I’m at my most alluring while pregnant. And I refuse to bow to the pressure to lose the baby weight too quickly.

‘A friend really shocked me over the weekend. She knows mums who gave birth with their cosmetic surgeon on standby for a tummy tuck straight after! Call me old-fashioned but that can’t be healthy.”

Tess had put herself to a strict diet & exercise regime to get into the shape that was required of her for the new series of Strictly Come Dancing. Tess would work hard with weights and had even compared the gym to a hell. No wonder she doesn’t wants to go back again soon.

Jessica Simpson ended her tour with Rascal Flats on Friday night and fans were pleased to find her rocking those Daisy Dukes like a true champion. We all know that this has been a rough few months for Jessica, what with all the gossip about her weight gain, but it seems that the super-blonde songstress is back on track.

After being criticized for her figure upon starting off the tour, Jess has certainly slimmed down - with her longtime personal trainer Mike Alexander recently talking about the situation with FOX Pop Tarts’ Hollie McKay.

“The whole thing wasn’t as traumatic for Jessica as everyone made it out to be. She’s a confident and naturally beautifully girl who works hard,” Alexander tells.

“Jessica is now at the end of her tour and looks great. It’s not easy to have a super strict diet when you are touring so you just have to make the best of the restaurants you go too but she’s knows what to eat and what not to and we talk about all of that,” he adds. [Source]

Hmmm…not quite sure the ol’ girl stuck to that super strict diet when she was consuming Denver a few weeks ago but who cares? She looks great in the shorts and that is apparently all that matters to anyone.

Kelly Clarkson feels people like her because she is overweight. The ‘My Life Would Suck Without You‘ singer - who shot to fame after winning the first series of TV talent contest ‘American Idol‘ - is never under stress to be thin because fans have always supported her, regardless of her weight. She said:

I feel very fortunate coming from ‘American Idol‘. I was the biggest girl in the group.

I’ve always been thicker and millions of people voted for me. People are born all different shapes and sizes. People like me this way.

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Kelly Clarkson is just one of our favorite celebs these days, isn’t she? Especially now that she’s joined the ranks of the “pregnant or fat” all-stars. Kelly is just the latest in a long list of stars whose bulging bellies are making us wonder if the stork will be visiting soon. Clarkson performed on American Idol last night and though Ryan Seacrest complimented her on how great she looked, apparently most of America disagreed.

So is Kelly Clarkson pregnant? The answer is we can’t be sure, but it’s more likely just weight gain. Only recently, Clarkson told Us Weekly that she wasn’t interested at the moment in spawning children. She also told Ryan Seacrest that there is no special person in her life at the moment.

Clarkson, rumored by some to be a lesbian, has had a long battle with weight, often putting on the pounds only to lose them again in a semi-regular fashion.

One thing we can say for Clarkson: if she was pregnant, she’d probably share the news; only earlier today, details of an interview she did with Blender Magazine included gems from Clarkson such as she pisses on her self in the shower, and that she analyzes her snot for illness. [Source]

We’ll see how this all shakes out but for the moment, it really just looks like a case of overeating and lack of exercise or perhaps just a bad stylist since her weight has looked pretty inconsistent of late.

Kelly Clarkson’s fourth album ‘All I Ever Wanted’ is out for grabs, as she returns to her old stomping ground of American Idol tonight. When asked about her fabulous body Kelly sounded really modest and laughed saying:

“I am just being me,”

The two-time Grammy winner, 26, admits, that she doesn’t regularly work out and has not lost any weight ‘. She says:

“I run when I feel like I need to run and de-stress”

“Oh, I haven’t (lost weight), I’m always the same size. People just get pictures of me in black and I look thinner, and people get pictures of me in white and I look bigger. I have a really, really great support system, so I’ve always been like that. But I mean, obviously, I’m humble as well, because there’s a lot of things about which I have no clue.”

Jessica Simpson’s vow to enjoy her size 16 curves has gone out for a toss. The singer has crashed back to her slimline frame. Her yo-yo-ing weight had become a topic of national controversy with everyone from Dolly Parton to Barack Obama sighting her example.

Jessica - who recently boasted ‘curves are better’ - ditched jeans in favour of her trademark hot pants to thrill the crowds at the final night of the Strawberry Festival Sunday in America. This is what she had to say after revealing a string of hellish diets and exercise regimes.

‘Honestly, I am right where I’m supposed to be. I am so happy, Curves are better. I don’t get the whole rail thing. It’s not good for your heart, it’s not good for your mind; it’s emotionally destructive, it really is.’

It doesn’t seem like it would be possible, but apparently Charlize Theron has fat days just like the rest of us. She talked about her bloat-blues in a recent interview with AOLNews:

“Life is just as complicated for me as it is for any other woman out there and I wake up just like ever other woman sometimes and can’t fit into my jeans and feel fat and ugly and have bad days.”

Theron deals with her complicated emotions by remembering how lucky she is to be a successful, leggy, blonde Oscar winner:

I’m incredibly blessed when you put everything in perspective, my life is incredibly blessed and I don’t take any of that for granted.” [Source]

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