Ricki Lake Talks About Her Recent Weight Loss

 

Former talk show host Ricki Lake, 40, talks to People Magazine about her 140 lb weight loss and how she is able to hold steady after previously weighing 270 pounds.

“I can’t believe I was a fat person for most of my life.”

“I didn’t have surgery and I worked hard. There’s no secret. I’m active. I watch what I eat.”

The mom of two boys, Milo, 11, and Owen, 6 adds that she’s certainly not immune to the pressure to stay thin.:

“According to Hollywood standards, I’m not a thin girl. I’m a normal girl.

 ”I don’t want to perpetuate that obsession but yet I am also guilty of wanting … to lose weight.”

“I’m just grateful that I have sons and not daughters because it’s that much harder.”

She says she eats meals delivered by a service called Fresh Dining

“It’s organic, it’s fresh, and I still love it.”

But admits unpredictable factors in life could one day interfere.

“With the weight stuff I don’t have any answers.”

“Something tragic in my life could happen and I could balloon and gain weight. I can’t promise I will be like this forever.”

Recently, Lake has been focusing on making a sequel to her 2007 documentary The Business of Being Born, and is working on a guide to pregnancy, due out in May.

And on how she plans on sticking to her diet with the holidays here:

 ”I will be really conscious because I have this book coming out and I want to look great.”

 ”I don’t need to lose anymore weight. [But] I don’t want to go backwards. So I’m not going to pig out this Christmas.”

Photo by WENN taken  on November 22, 2008 at CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute held at the Kodak Theatre.