Written by Alicia Rose
Gaining weight is often unsettling and upsetting when it occurs to the person who falls victim to packing on the pounds, but imagine on top of the devastation and your new physical and health problems, you are also fired from your job because of it.
Well, for Carnie Wilson, the 42 year-old 5’3″ singer famous for her pop group Wilson Phillips and television hosting gigs, the case is just that.
Wilson, who has often been in the press for her ever-changing weight, often losing a significant amount of it, then gaining most of it back, and sometimes then some, has been yo-yo dieting for years. In 1999, she also reportedly underwent gastric bypass surgery where she dropped from 300 pounds to 150 pounds. Following that she posed for Playboy and appeared in the television show Celebrity Fit Club.
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UPDATE 12/02/10: Carnie Wilson was fired as spokesperson for The Fresh Diet due to weight gain and promoting her own cheesecake business.
Carnie Wilson, daughter of beloved Beach Boys singer Brian Wilson, is a mom of two daughters. In the spotlight from a young age, her weight has been a much commented upon subject. The star of the GSN show Carnie Wilson: Unstapled, Wilson had gastric bypass in the 1990s when she was over 300 pounds. Her weight fluctuated since, hindered by a 70-pound weight gain in her first pregnancy and 60 pounds in her second. Describing herself as a life-long sugar addict, she says that she never learned to eat correctly and used her pregnancies as a convenient excuse to eat the foods she wanted.
Now she’s partnering with Dr. Oz and Fresh Diet, a food delivery company, to lose the extra weight in a healthy manner. Wilson says that she’s struggled her entire life with good diet choices.
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Tune in this Wednesday, March 3 to The Dr. Oz Show when Carnie Wilson pops by for an update on her weight loss.
Recently, TV host, star of
Unstapled, author and pop icon
Carnie Wilson appeared on the show desperately in need of expert assistance as she not only admitted her addiction to food, but realized that her health was once again at risk as a result of her weight.
Tune in this Thursday, February 4th to The Dr. Oz Show when Carnie Wilson requests Dr. Oz’s help in her lifetime battle with her very public weight struggles.
From having her bariatric surgery broadcasted online to her new raw and honest reality series, Unstapled, singer and entertainer Wilson is coming to terms that she once again needs to step up her commitment to losing weight.
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A few months back, we mentioned that game show host, singer and entertainer Carnie Wilson is set to appear in her own reality series on the Game Show Network (GSN), entitled “Unstapled.”
The show, which premieres Thursday, January 14, pokes fun at Wilson’s battle with her weight. In 1999, she very publicly underwent weight loss surgery (read online) and with her new show, she plans on chronicling her intentions of losing the 50 pounds of baby weight she put on during her second pregnancy.
You might be wondering what is the connection between game shows and weight loss?
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