Audiences were abuzz when cohost Jessica Simpson took the stage with comedian Dane Cook at the Teen Choice awards in L.A.’s Universal City August 20. But it wasn’t their flirtatious relationship that had fans talking: It was Simpson’s newly slimmed-down shape.
“I have been working out five days a week for two hours a day,” the 5-foot-3 singer, 26, told Us the morning after the show. And in the past two weeks alone, she lost 8 pounds. (Most doctors recommend shedding a pound a week for healthy weight loss.) “There are no tricks,” says the size-2 star. “There is no easy way.”
Of course, workouts alone haven’t whittled the waistline of Simpson, who wears size 26 jeans. The singer – who indulged in a pre-diet Caesar salad, sea bass, shrimp cocktail and chocolate lava cake at Beverly Hills eatery the Lodge Steakhouse on August 1 — has revamped her diet as well. Once a devotee of the Zone Diet (she still favors the plan’s snack bars) as well as the South Beach Diet, the meat lover now follows a junkfood-free regime created by her trainer Mike Alexander.
Us Weekly
Wed, Aug 23, 2006
Jessica Simpson