Jennifer Lopez told Elle magazine she could never be a size zero. “I have a butt, I have boobs and I have a woman’s curves,” Lopez said in Elle’s latest issue. “There is no way I’d see them go to zero. I just don’t see how I could get down to that size and still be healthy. It wouldn’t work.” Lopez said models who kill themselves to be thin are “insane.” She feels the secret to true beauty is feeling happy about yourself. “I hate to look in a magazine and see a picture of a girl who is so thin she looks unhappy and as if she just needs someone to give her a good meal.”
America Ferrera knows a little something about curves too. The “Ugly Betty” star says for her thin is not in. Ferrera, who also starred in the films “Real Women Have Curves” and “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,” told W magazine for its May issue: “I gain a pound; I lose a pound. But I think I’ve developed a really good sense of when I’m doing something for myself as opposed to when I’m doing something because of other people’s expectations of me. And honestly, even if I wanted to be anorexic, I just don’t have what it takes. After four hours of being anorexic, I’d be like, ‘It’s been four whole hours! Feed me!”‘
State Farm is sponsoring “The 50 Million Pound Challenge” encouraging communities to address America’s overweight epidemic. The VH1 reality series “Celebrity Fit Club” is joining in the program, called “the biggest African-American health initiative in history,” the New York Post’s Liz Smith reported. The program kicked off Easter weekend on Washington’s National Mall. Patti LaBelle, Mary J. Blige, Ashford & Simpson, Yolanda Adams, Omarion, New York Giants star Michael Strahan, comic Steve Harvey, celeb DJ Biz Markie and others were schedule to join the program and discuss how they shed pounds.
