Showing off her new svelte figure in a bikini and cropped top on the cover of Shape magazine, Mariah Carey is proud of her weight loss and how hard she worked to achieve it.

The 42 year-old diva delivered twins Moroccan and Monroe last year but found herself with extra weight she wanted to shed.

“I put on 70 lbs. but if you look at me in pictures you’d think it was more like 9,000 lbs. I have a lot of empathy with people who have to lose a lot of weight.”

Carey, who is now a spokesperson for Jenny Craig, told the magazine she had to take a different approach to getting healthy.

“I used to be able to slim down just by exercising more, but that’s changed. Since having the babies, I realise that 90 percent of losing weight is my diet.”

Carey also opened up about how challenging pregnancy was for her.

“Pregnancy was probably the best and the hardest thing I’ll ever go through. I know for a lot of women, it can be wonderful and relatively easy. But for me, it was like ‘Okay, honey, do you have to do everything the hard way?’”

Check out Mariah’s issue on sale April 23rd.

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Tennis champ Serena Williams is not opposed to showing some skin, and this past week we saw plenty of it.  Serena displayed significant cleavage at the ESPY Awards, where she claimed the Best Female Tennis Player Award.  She was also spotted grabbing dinner at BOA Steakhouse in Los Angeles.  She rocked a pair of satin short-shorts, a white top, and a fitted, cropped leather jacket.  With a body like that, why wouldn’t you want to show it off?

More views of Serena after the jump.

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Jennifer Hudson looked sensational at the Mary J Blige Honors Concert at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on May 1st.

The 29 year-old wore a super tight thistle-pink colored dress and beamed on the red carpet.

Hudson’s weight loss has been dramatic over the past two years and she admitted that her fiance, WWE wrestler David Ortungo would like it to stop.

“I haven’t actually caught up with how I look. Some people don’t like it so much and tell me to stop. My fiancé tells me not to lose more – he likes me very basic, no make-up, no heels, no fuss,” Jennifer said.

“I think both of us are still struggling to come to terms with this new me. He’ll tell me not to dress up, but I tell him to get used to it.”

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Yawn.  For someone who claims not to have body image issues any more, Jessica Simpson sure can’t stop talking about her weight.    She spoke at California First Lady Maria Shriver‘s annual Women’s Conference and said:

“I went through a really hard time, a couple years back with people just harping on the pressure of how to look perfect – obviously using me and my weight. It was a tabloid frenzy… people are constantly curious as to how much I weigh or what I look like or what I wear…there’s no way you’re not going to be affected by the ugly things people say about you. It’s very hurtful.”

Do you know WHY people are constantly curious about your weight, Jess?  Because you won’t shut your trap about it, that’s why.

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Y’all remember Debbie Allen from back in the day?  Dancer?  Choreographer?  Director?  Fame?  A Different World?  Phylicia Rashad‘s sister?  No?

KATY PERRY BOOBIES TOO SEXY FOR SESAME STREET – VIDEO

Well, you’re not going to ever forget her now.  Especially not her boobs.   Debbie let it all hang out and low at the Alfred E. Mann Foundation Gala.   Could those puppies be ANY flatter?  It’s like she ironed them before she left the house.   I mean it’s awesome that she wants to show her ta-tas off at her age (she’s 60!)  but girrrrllll…. would it have killed you to wear a proper bra?

MINKA KELLY IS THE SEXIEST WOMAN ALIVE – ESQUIRE PHOTOS AND VIDEO

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Lady Gaga is officially the most followed person on Twitter, but is she paying a hard, unhealthy price for her fame?  A new book alleges that Gaga has some serious eating problems, brought on by industry pressure to be skinny.   Even back when she was shooting her Paparazzi video

‘The pressure on her to lose weight was very high.  Producers had to shoot around her. They draped fabric over her thighs and shot her backside with a softer lens.’

The book’s author, Gaga’s former tour manager David Clemny, said that the singer developed a bad habit of binging and then starving herself.

Gaga would go on junk food binges while on tour and would gorge on sweets and unhealthy food… she’d then not eat for weeks so she could slim to fit into her costumes. He recalls she once lost 20 pounds in between fittings.

Yikes!  So is this what’s behind all the collapsing earlier this year?  I hope she’s gotten healthier since then because eating (or not) like this is just asking for trouble.

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Christina Hendricks is known for her lovely, curvy figure and eye-popping cleavage – she gave us plenty of that last weekend.   So what are the stats behind all that zaftig?  The New York Daily News reports that Christina’s measurements are 39D-30-39.   Beautifully proportioned!  But only 39D?  That Zac Posen she wore for the Emmys sure did emphasize her assets, then.  That said,  Christina is gorgeous and I hope she never feels any pressure to change.

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Niecy Nash dispenses a lot of advice on her show Clean House, but household cleanliness is not the only topic on which the pleasantly zaftig host has strong opinions.  Niecy has a message for girls who starve themselves to stay thin:

A lot of people are miserable, a lot of people are so unhappy because they’re hungry. They need to eat a little more. All those thin girls walking around on Dancing With The Stars, they’re arguing with their partners – you would have a better life if you ate some food, honey.”

You go, girl!  Have you ever heard anything more sensible than that?  As for Niecy, she has no trouble following her own advice.

“If I like it, I’m going to eat it.”

A girl after my own heart.

JESSE JAMES MOVES ON WITH KAT VON D

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Yep, Jessica Simpson is talking about her weight and body image issues again.  She is now claiming to have made peace with her curvy self.  She told Lucky magazine:

We all obsess over looking like the perfect Barbie type, and that’s not always what’s beautiful. It’s about making peace with yourself…I think a woman always stresses out about their weight. It’s just like a woman thing -unless you’re the women we don’t like that are the supermodels that are just so naturally fantastic.  But for me, I’m a curvy girl so I have to always be conscious of what I’m putting into my body, if I’m going to be working out.

Ho hum.  Can’t interviewers think of anything else to ask her about?  Jess and her body issues are becoming about as newsworthy as Megan Fox and her sexuality.    I fully expect magazines to be asking her about her weight 30 years from now.  Yawn.

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Gossip Girl‘s Ed Westwick and his very hairy chest were caught leaving Cafe Med in Los Angeles.  Could he be any more scruffy?   Put a pair of breeches on him, though, with those cute red booties and voila!  You’d have Renaissance Faire Ed.   Huzzah!

ED WESTWICK IS SINGLE AND WANTS THE LADIES TO KNOW IT

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