OlderRicki Lake’s Weight Loss
Ricki Lake shares how she lost over 100 pounds in the latest issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands now.
The 38-year-old former talk show host once weighed in at 250 pounds and now checks in 123 pounds.
On crash dieting in 1991: “… I went on this extreme diet. I used to faint because I wasn’t eating and I was always exercising.”
On the most exciting thing about her new weight: “For the longest time, when I was very heavy, I couldn’t cross my legs. I couldn’t physically do it. LOVE that I can cross my legs now … Even my shoe size is changing. My Jimmy Choos are too big now.”
On what she thinks of super-skinny actresses: “I think I have no wrinkles because I always had fat on my face. Really skinny girls age so fast.”
Ricki debuted her new fab body (size 24 to 4!) at the premiere of her documentary The Business of Being Born at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival on last month in New York City.
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She can easily be a size 4 in that red number on the magazine. She looks a little bigger in the dress.
The 4 needs to be a good label, though, not a cheap one.
She looks sloppy. You can tell she is dieting only and not dieting AND exercising. She needs to exercise to tone up now. Then MAYBE she’ll be a size 4.
We would have to see this woman in person, not pictures, to really get a better idea of what she looks like.
RL was really big many years ago. Then she went on some kind of diet and lost a lot of weight. She married and had kids and still stayed at a smaller size. May have gained a few of the pounds back in recent years and now lost it again.
My sister is 56 y-o, 5′3″ and lost 50 pounds too fast because of illness. She weighs somewhere close to 120. She lost all her muscle and looks like bones. Her body is so small, she looks almost like a child. She shrunk.
I am 5′5″ at 120. I have a leaner body and more muscle because I’ve always exercised. My waist is also smaller and flatter because even though my sister looks smaller overall, she has more fat in certain places like her stomach.
I don’t get it. Who choses the clothes they wear?? With a pretty face and major weight loss, why would they wear such NON flattering attire? The red bathing suit looks horrible and that dress is totally the wrong neck line for her. AND if it’s their own choice, hire a clothes stylist!
Saw her on the view she looked bigger but Im a size 2 and no way is she a 4.Her show at the end was boring.She now needs a makeover tone it up ,something different with the hair.
Just like my name says “Yeah, right.” She is no size 4. I wouldn’t even put her in the single digit sizes. She looks more like a size 14, especially in her upper body. And her weight being in the 120’s. Yeah, right again! She looks more like she’s in the 160’s.
Okay haters get a grip! everyone is has different, who would lie about being 123 pounds and a size four she could have very low body fat she could have lost a lot of inches who knows and who cares get a life the girl looks good and please by all means stop hating !
i am so happy for RL!!! will everybody please stop HATING and be happy for her too? atleast she didnt give up like a lot of other people i know!!!
There are a lot of jealous broads out there!!!!! Ricki looks great!!
However, everyone seems to pick and critcize her . . . her arms are too fleshy; she’s not a size 4, etc . . . She has come a long way — she’s worked very hard — JEALOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE THAT ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT WHAT SIZE SHE ACTUALLY IS OR WHAT CLOTHES SHE IS WEARING!!!
GET OVER YOURSELVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HOW YOU WOULD GO IN HER SHOES IF YOU TRYED TO LOSE THAT MUCH WEIGHT!!
I HAVE TO SAY I HAVE NEVER HAD TO WORRY ABOUT LOSING WEIGHT CAUSE I HAVE A FAST METABOLISM (I’m 23) AND NEVER HAD THIS PROBLEM, BUT I DO HAVE A FAMILY MEMBER THAT IS ALOT BIGGER THEN WHAT RICKIE WAS AND I KNOW HOW HARD IT WOULD HAVE BEEN FOR HER.
YOU ARE THE PEOPLE THAT INSTIGATE CHILDREN AND ADULTS LIKE RICKIE TO BECOME ANOREXIC BECAUSE OF THESE COMMENTS, TRY SAYING SOMETHING NICE FOR ONCE.
GO RICKIE GO RICKIE!!!!! :)
I’m 150 and I wear a 9/10 - she could totally wear a 4 at 123.. Pictures always make you look fat, plus she has on a flowy dress which never helps.
I think that Ricki looks fantastic. And for people to point fingers about what size she really is, well I guess then you are just plain jealouse. Everyone is shaped diffrently and all I can say is well done Ricki. You really look beautiful.
I think that Ricki looks fantastic. It’s hard work to loose weight and people should realize that everyone is shaped diffrently. For those people out there that’s going on about what size she really is, well all I can say to you is that you are just plain jealous. You go Ricki and don’t let people get you down on what you’ve achieved. The proplem with this world is that people are so mean and get off on it.
i personally think rl looks absolutely amazing. i bought the magazine in which she was featured on it, and read the article and i do believe she is indeed a size 4. now, i’ve been crash-dieting for the last few years but i’m so ready to finally rid my mind & bod of that craziness. last month, i lost a whopping 21 lbs in six weeks and let me tell you that it wasn’t easy. so now that i gained back the eight or so pounds i’m willing to do something less extreme and more realistic so that i don’t go into shutdown mode.
the hardest part for me is trying to maintain the weight, so i do hope rl can sustain a size 4 for years to come. w/ her new show on abc and all the positive publicity she’s receiving, may be it’ll help bounce back her career from the dead.
I agree. I’m thinking she’s alittle bigger than a 4, but you never know…she is wearing a very unflattering dress for weightloss. The “Empire waist” I think is cute, but tends to make you look like your expecting. I do think she looks wonderful anyway. The large face? I know…it just dosen’t look right. Like being a large woman alters your facial structure. Look at Star Jones. I think she has that same problem with the “big head” look. But we need to look at the real picture here and thats HEY! The chick is half her size and looks wonderful. Lets give the girl props shall we?
I think Ricki looks wonderful. These idiots that disagree about what the hell size she wears need to get a life!!!!!! You can’t tell in pictures how small a person really is. Remember, pictures add. as they say, ten pounds anyway, so she probably is a size 4. Some of these nasty comments I know are from homely jealous people.
wow rickie looks great…..
This is so ridiculous.
I totally agree with magnus…why are you people being so judgmental and UGLY acting about this woman losing weight.
You have NO CLUE what size she is based on a photo…also, how dare anyone say she looks fat…she lost over 150 pounds.
And by the way…if you lose it slowly and the correct way, not like you anorexics and bulemics on this post, you would not necessarily have wrinkles and flabby skin. The skin is elastic, and only with dramatic weight gain and loss do you have such results. She has been losing weight for years.
What a dumb ass group!
Go eat a sandwich and maybe you people won’t be so damned evil!
I think it would’ve made her look better if she didn’t do the cover and made her own fuss about her weight loss. I think she would’ve kept more credit by coming back on the scene with her talents and a new image to match!
Though I will say…how ever she lost it and how ever long it took her to loose it…it took hard work and she looks much better than she did at 250.
Ricki Looks Fab,People that have something bad to say about her well to bad for you cause she done it and what did you do..so why ?
I think people like you are not happy with themselves cause I bet you look in the mirror every day and see something wrong and you knw thats why bad things happen because of people like you whi can never truely be happe for someone else or themselves I bet you also compare you to every single person you see Oh what a shame…
Monique
Rikki is no size 4 she is a size 7.She weighs about 145lbs.
I find it funny that the one’s trashing her so fiercely are women. Why do you have to knock her for doing something good for herself that she’s proud of? Does it make you feel better about yourself or your life? It’s one thing to see someone and have internal thoughts/opinions about what they look like because that’s human nature, but to take the time to post on a website some of the vilest things I’ve ever read, well, that’s actually pathetic. I also find it funny that people posting on a site like this would trash US magazine because, newsflash, you’re not at the website for CNN or the BBC and the topic of the day isn’t the economy or the war in Iraq. You’re gossiping about a woman who just happens to have achieved her own personal goals and instead of applauding her efforts or just saying nothing, you chose to insult her and insist she’s lying or the magazine is covering it up. What does it even matter to you? It’s easy to criticize when you’re veiled in anonymity but perhaps those who were the cruelest should post bikini/bathing suit shots of themselves for everyone to critique.
I think we all have way too much time to sit and type critisizims of this accomplished lady. She has done a great job and looks great wether her skin is toned or not. You have to be a person that has had a weight problem to understand any thing at all about body image and body ecceptance get over yourselves and leave Ricky alone.
Hey, she looks great! Who cares what ’size’ she is… nicer clothes have more soothing size ranges for the spirit anyway.
Ricky, you go girl!!!
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