Here are some lovely pics of Ms. Renee Zellweger before and after she packed on the pounds for "Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason." There's lots of great rumors on how she gained the weight including her eating "buckets of cream cheese." Renee has been seen around the Motor City lately since she's back with her man, Jack White of the White Stripes.
She has turned down a mega-million dollar offer to lose the weight using Weight Watchers. Do you think she looked better as curvy, healthy Renee? Or as the thinny-skinny Renee?
Either way she is gorgeous. But I think she does look good heavier. She was more glow and check out the cleavage! Even her smile is more natural in the heavier picture.
I agree, she looks SOO much better with some weight on her. I hate all these stick thin celebs.
She looks so much fresher and relaxed in the "big" photo, obvisouly she might just have been having a bad day in the "skinny" photo, but she really looks heaps happier as a "larger" (more normal) girl.
Have you see her in chicago? She looked really fragile as if a slight breeze could split her in two. She looks so gorgeous normally. She isn't even remotely fat in the bigger picture so when shes thin, she is really thin and it doesn't suit her.
***Everybody has the right to be stupid but you're abusing the privilege***
OSCAR-WINNER Renee Zellweger has described as "sad" the focus on her weight loss after playing the title role in two Bridget Jones films.
The Texas-born actress, who is due to arrive in Australia tomorrow, put on about 10kg for each of her Bridget Jones movies.
She said constant questions about her weight had become an "obsession".
"It makes me so sad, because I think it says so much about what we value in society," Zellweger, 35, said in Los Angeles.
"It suggests that one way of existing in the world is correct and that the other isn't valuable - and I think that's completely invalid.
"Honestly, I really do get such positive responses from the fellows in my life while I look like Bridget Jones. I think that completely nullifies the idea for the paradigms for beauty that we have in this decade.
"I don't understand it. I really don't, because I didn't find that I was less happy. It was very exciting to be able to fill out those dresses.
"Unfortunately, they're temporary assets, so to speak."
Zellweger, who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress opposite Nicole Kidman in Cold Mountain, arrives in Australia tomorrow and will appear on Rove Live on Tuesday.
Zellweger arrives in Sydney on Thursday for the world premiere of Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason.
The actress is travelling with her father, Emil, mother, Kjellfrid, and younger brother, Drew.
They will visit Australian-based members of their family. Emil Zellweger lived in Australia as a young man and was a Cronulla lifesaver.
Movie beauty Renee Zellweger is thrilled she's lost the weight she gained for her latest movie, "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason," but she misses her large breasts.
The sexy actress piled on the bounds to play the romantic comedy's curvaceous heroine, but now she's returned to her naturally slender shape, she's realized how small her cup size is.
She complains, "I'm a little girl. It was a sad day when I had to retire my C-cup to the drawer, but it wasn't because I felt pressure to be a certain weight in Hollywood, or anything like that."
I can see why she misses them. She is very straight up and down without the extra weight. I would be tempted to keep some of the weight on if I was her, but Hollywood pressure probably won't let her, which is sad.
Heatherhobbit said this in post #2 : Either way she is gorgeous. But I think she does look good heavier. She was more glow and check out the cleavage! Even her smile is more natural in the heavier picture.
Damn - I was going to say the same exact thing! She's SO on top of my Celebrity Babes I'd Like To .. uhh.. MEET list!
The transformation from world's most celebrated chubby singleton into super-svelte Hollywood glamourpuss has become her trademark.
But, second time around, Renee Zellweger's rapid post-Bridget Jones weight loss was anything but easy.
After filming on Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason ended in April, the 35-year-old booked herself into a £2,500-a-week weight-loss spa - where daily 12-mile hikes are mandatory - and embarked on a high-protein diet to shed nearly three stone.
The 5ft 5in actress went from her usual 7st 7lb to more than 10st when she first agreed to play Bridget in 2001, fuelled by doughnuts, chocolate and cheese-laden pizzas.
Although she succeeded in piling on the pounds - rapidly losing them on the Atkins Diet - the huge amounts of sugar she was consuming, together with a sedentary lifestyle, left her sluggish.
So when, a year ago, the time came to put on weight for the sequel, Miss Zellweger employed a nutritionist who put her on a 4,700-calorie per day diet.
This time she ate healthier foods to gain bulk, including lasagne, fish and chips, stir-fried chicken, avocados and weightgain shakes, made up of flaxseed oil and protein powder.
"I ate healthy foods with a high, hidden fat content - it's the easiest way to do it," she said.
On her return home to Los Angeles, Miss Zellweger began visiting a gym for daily, two-hour workouts. Her meals were mainly tuna or cold meat coupled with dressing- free salads and raw vegetables.
In June, she checked into the £2,500-a-week Ashram Spa in Calabasas, California. Visitors share rooms with a stranger and do a 12-mile hike every day.
Owner Catharina Hedberg told Heat magazine: "Renee is a lovely, sweet girl who was willing to work hard when she came here."
Miss Zellweger has spoken of her concern that her yo-yo dieting could affect her fertility.
"I know there's been some research into losing weight quickly and the effects that has," she told Closer magazine. "Of course, it's concerning. I'd love to be a mum one day. I'm looking forward to being pregnant and putting on weight naturally."
Renee's Bridget Jones diet
Her diet for stacking on the pounds
Breakfast: Four slices of toast with ghee (clarified butter) and cream cheese. Savoury scones (biscuits) with gravy. Fruit-flavoured milkshake
Lunch: Caesar salad with extra dressing and cheese. Ravioli or lasagne. Avocado with full-fat dressing
Dinner: Stir fried chicken with vegetables and potatoes fried in butter or fish and chips or four cheese pizza
Snacks: Snickers chocolate bars. Hot chocolate with whipped cream. Four doughnuts
Calories: 4,700 per day; Weight: 10st 3lbs (April 2004)
Her diet for slimming down
Breakfast: Fresh fruit salad or small bowl of high-fibre muesli with skimmed milk. One piece of wholemeal toast with a scraping of lowfat margarine. Cup of hot water with lemon.
Lunch Small: Piece of grilled tuna. Dressing-free mixed leaf salad with tomatoes. Four glasses of water. One apple.
Dinner: Cold chicken or turkey breast. Selection of steamed vegetables including carrots, broccoli and mangetout. Side salad with no dressing Four glasses of water
She looks horrible at the moment. The dark hair, pale skin, skeleton thin body. Bleuk. She needs some weight, a bit of a tan and to keep her hair blonde. She looks like some kind of try-hard goth at the moment, it's not pretty.
There seems to be less of Renee Zellweger than ever. The actress who put on almost three stone to play the curvaceous Bridget Jones seems just as talented at taking it off.
Appearing at a charity concert in Los Angeles, 35-year-old Miss Zellweger looked at her most petite.
"She is very pale and while I've seen her looking slender before, she looked quite ill," said a fellow concertgoer. When you live in LA you are used to seeing slim girls, but she is so skinny it's frightening."
Frightening
Miss Zellweger's weight has varied drastically throughout her career.
Bigger and bolder: As the curvy Bridget Jones
She was around 7st 7lb when she appeared in her Oscar-nominated role as murderess Roxie Hart in the film version of the musical Chicago in 2002. But as the down-to-earth Bridget Jones, she cut a much larger figure, fleshing out her tiny frame to wellrounded proportions.
For Bridget Jones's Diary in 2001 she simply gorged herself on pizza to put on weight before dieting back to her usual shape. For last year's sequel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, she relied on the advice of a nutritionist.
That is way too skinny. She was too skinny before, that's just amazing. I wonder how she's even standing, it looks like the slightest puff of wind will blow her away.
12-15-2003 05:49 AM
That is way too skinny. She was too skinny before, that's just amazing. I wonder how she's even standing, it looks like the slightest puff of wind will blow her away.
