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Beyonce covers the April issue of Shape Magazine. I LOVE that swimsuit. It’s so cute, and I love that she isn’t hanging out of it. This is her first time covering Shape, I think. And guess what she’s talking about? You’ll never believe it. She’s talking about how much weight she gained while pregnant (side-eye) and how difficult it was to lose the weight (side-eye) and how anyone can lose weight if they just live like Beysus. So inspirational! Or something.
“Talking about weight can be a very touchy subject for women,” according to Shape magazine editor-in-chief, Tara Kraft (and, well, millions of other moms out there), but someone has to do it. Who better than one of the 100 sexiest women of the 21 Century herself? Beyonce Knowles.
Shape’s April 2013 issue features Knowles, who Kraft says is bravely willing to go where few women have gone — talking about weight — “because she wanted to make every woman out there feel like they, too, could achieve what she did.”
In case you blinked and missed what that achievement is, Knowles goes on to explain it — going from bootylicious pre-baby fabulousness to pregnancy and back, all in the span of three months — in a behind-the-scenes video of her Shape magazine cover shoot.
“I gained 57 pounds when I was pregnant. I didn’t have a lot of time to lose the weight, because I scheduled a show three months after I gave birth, which I would never do again,” Knowles says in the minute-and-a-half video clip. “I’m not a person that is naturally very thin. I am a person that has to work at keeping my body in shape,” she goes on to say, adding that dance is what keeps her active.
Add cardio, lunges, and a diet full of veggies and lean meat to that, according to Shape editor-at-large, Bahar Takhtehchian, who revealed to The Insider last year what Beyoncé’s post-baby fitness routine consisted of. Trainer Marco Borges said it’s one vegan meal a day that has helped Bey keep her nearly 60 pound weight gain at bay.
But while “it’s really really hard to lose your baby weight, because you don’t always have the time,” as Kraft admits, it’s easy to work it into your lifestyle the way Beyoncé does, she says. “She’s not setting the bar too high, she’s helping everyone feel like they can get there.”
Beyoncé, on the other hand, says that where she is, isn’t necessarily where everyone else needs to be. “Not everyone is supposed to be the same. Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you.”
[From Shape Magazine via HuffPo]
Even though Beyonce is usually deserving of some “O RLY”-screams, I like that she acknowledges that “Not everyone is supposed to be the same” and at least her trainer isn’t trying to tell all women that they need to lose all of their baby weight and do it right now. So, in some ways Beyonce and her team are WAY better than Gwyneth Paltrow and Tracy “Let Me Take Off Your Pants So I Can Body-Shame You” Anderson. Now, even with Beyonce’s caveats, I still don’t believe that it was so super-easy for her to “get back into shape” after the baby. By most accounts, she was dancing, training and working out for like eight hours a day after Blue Ivy was born. And that’s not realistic for most women.
Photos courtesy of Shape Magazine.
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DUH, Does she think we are blind? LOL
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Her pillow weight gain was more like 5.7 pounds imo…
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I watched her HBO documentary:
(1) Beyonce did not gain 57 pounds
(2) Beyonce did not give birth
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1. True
2. True
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I can’t believe you people are still going on what that “she didn’t give birth” crap when there is no concrete proof she wasn’t pregnant. If any of you watched the HBO special, you could see her pregnant belly. She doesn’t need to show Blue coming out of her vagina. Anyway, I love that swimsuit but not the hair.
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“She doesn’t need to show Blue coming out of her vagina.”
LOL!! So true, I agree. Enough with the conspiracy theorists!
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Look … turn down the sound (it may irritate you). It’s hard to argue with this little “documentary”. She’s full of it, and most of us know it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxoUYoBUyMA
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I saw that a long time ago. Most of the dates and timelines of her pregnancy in that video are completely wrong. It’s not “proof”, more like opinion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIJR_XZMzlY
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Rikki, I don’t want to see her giving birth. But when she’s doing a documentary about herself she could have added something of her 8 or 9 months pregnant. But she didn’t. It feels wrong and I rely on my feeling.
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Val speaking of the word blind; there was a blind item about one or two months ago about a popular female singer. It stated that she was going to be on a cover of a magazine that she had said that she would never pose for and laughed at the idea of it when they asked her years ago. But unfortunately a former employee of the singer committed a despicable act in the presence of a hooker. The hooker was going to sell the story to The National Enquirer or Star magazine. It was said that the pop star cut a deal with the magazine to appear on the cover of one of their mags, if they made the story go away. They also paid off the hooker.
The pop star was rumored to Beyonce
The magazine she said she would never pose for is Shape Mag
Shape Magazine is owned by The American Media and they also own The National Enquirer and Star Magazine. The blind said to watch out for a singer’s first time appearance on the cover of a mag you wouldn’t expect her to pose for. Until now Bey has never posed for Shape.
Not saying that all rumors are true but hmmmmmm.
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that IS interesting. I did not know Shape was owned by the same company but you’re right and it does sound very possible. thanks for the info! I wonder what the back story is tho’. yikes.
8 hours a day exercising to get back in shape. wow. if even anywhere near that clearly her fame is reallly important to her.
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Interesting…
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Good call on the Blind Item! You know her father used to be her manager/employee….
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Good call… remember when Tiger did Men’s Health Magazine’s cover, because The Enquirer caught him with the Perkins Waitress.
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Beyonce was on the covers of Shape before
http://img2.bdbphotos.com/images/orig/e/q/eqh5sursb8dsqe58.jpg
http://img2.bdbphotos.com/images/orig/u/z/uz8au0cwwqt44tw.jpg
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@Riki; I didn’t know if she had been in Shape or not; just repeating the blind. But where they Shape US covers or Shape International? Doesn’t really matter I guess since American Media owns the buck of it but the international magazines have their own CEO’s and perhaps that’s why she wouldn’t be opposed to being on a foreign issue as oppose to the American Issue which has ties to the tabloids who like to tear her down.
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One of them was Brazilian and I’m not sure about the other.
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It was Shape Iran; therefore this is her first US Shape Cover
Here’s a copy of the Blind form CDAN Thursday, Today’s Blind Items – The Trade
Remember how back in the day Tiger Woods traded cover stories so that his infidelities could be hidden? Well, an A++ list celebrity has reached a similar deal and is appearing on a cover that she would have laughed at a year ago until she passed out from laughing so hard. The thing is, the parent company of the magazine was offered some information about the celebrity. Disturbing information. About a long time employee. About the employee being caught pleasuring himself to photos of our celebrity and her infant daughter. Yeah, it is pretty sick. There is video of the incident that was taken by a woman he paid to have sex with. They are both drunk in the video but he talks about how he works for the celebrity and was her very first employee and has been with her forever and the hooker went to sell the story and the publishing company loved it. Was going to buy it and reached out to the people of the celebrity and they traded. Cover stories for a block on the publication of the photos and video. The celebrity also got together with her A++ list husband and they paid the hooker a great deal of money to go away. So, in the next couple of months when you see a cover and go wtf, now you know why.
ent lawyer at 10:10 AM
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IF that BL is true, that’s disgusting. What makes you think that’s Beyonce? She’s appeared on endless covers, Vogue, GQ, Rolling Stone, Self, Maxim Us Mag a few years ago. Who knows
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Because the Blind is implying she wouldn’t appear on the cover of this particular mag because of the trash mags like Star mag that it’s associated with. All those other mags you mentioned are not affliated with the trash mags that constantly writes gossip about Bey. Ask yourself why has it taken her so long to be on the cover of Shape mag US when it has been said that she has one of the best bodies in the business.
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She looks good! Here comes the hate in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1,….
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She looks amazing. And if she hadn’t lost the weight, she’d be getting a hard time for that. She can’t win, really. If you look at her quick 60-pound weight loss as inspirational rather than something that most new mothers can realistically accomplish, it’s fab.
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You can’t loose what you never had. Bey got you guys fooled; she did not gain almost 60 pounds unless she was carrying the weight of her surrogate.
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Not the hate. Reality. Whre is her famous, sexy “gap” à la GQ cover? If she is so self conscious and powerful she should take control of the way she looks on the covers.
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She was arching her back in the picture of her with the “gap”. She was rotating her hips back and her knees in. Girl knows how to pose.
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Photoshop can make anyone look a heck of a lot better. Let’s see the unretouched photos. Let’s also stop saying she’s empowering women by taking off most of her clothing and posing half naked. That is not being a good role model for young girls. Sorry. It’s just not. Constantly talking about how to lose weight is not empowering women either. Be proud of your body instead of letting the editors photoshop half of it off the page. That is not her body. Let’s be real! She’s as fake as her weaves. Okay, I’m done!
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Everything is photoshopped. Beyonce doesn’t have control over that. They photoshop size 0 models. Parents need to be good role models to young girls/boys, not singers and actors.
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Of course she’s photo shopped! Everyone is on the covers no matter what mag. Runner’s world mag is the worst…imo. for a curvy girl she looks fantastic. The real story here is she left her baby to work out 8 hours a day. I know she has a career and has to stay in shape, but those 1st few weeks go by the fastest! The maternal factor is missing with her…
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‘I’m not a person that is naturally very thin’”
—-> We all know that very well too, B.
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Before all the ‘fake baby pillow balh’ kicks in, I think her attitude to getting back in shape have her pregnancy is kind of healthy. It’s not easy, especially as you get older/have later pregnancies.
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Omg, I can’t believe she’s still on her “pregnancy”. And yeah, having piles of money and nannies certainly frees up your time to get back into shape. We, the lowly peasants, have jobs etc, so it’s not so easy for us. Ha!
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But then, to be fair, her job is to sing, dance and be beautiful. So… nannies or no nanny, money or no money, losing the baby weight and doing it very quickly was part of her job.
God, I’m soooo happy to be a teacher!
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I love when she wears her hair curly. It looks much better than the straight hair. Also love the honey blond hair color on her.
Hate her dancing and music and the way she talks.
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I really like her hair colour on her too. One of the few things I like about her nowadays :O).
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These celebrity vanity stories make me stabby.
None of these women are doing this on a modest budget, with limited time and resources.
Most of these women have work schedules that are so far from reality of living and working while being a mother. (and staying at home is also work, don’t jump my words moms).
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YES to all your points!!! I get back from work at 7. See my baby for a couple of hours at the most. Then go to sleep. I don’t have time to work out for half an hour, let alone more. It blows, but that’s reality for the vast majority of us.
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It’s their job.
She’s in the entertainment business so exercises, dance routines and looking good is part of the job description.
Both of my aunts are in the sports field (one of them is a swim coach/gym trainer and the other one is a basketball coach). So after they gave birth they snapped into shape after 3 months. It was their job to train at least 2 hours a day. So yes a lot of it depends on your lifestyle and job description. By the way, both my aunts lost weight from doing their jobs and didn’t devote any extra time to exercise. So I see it this way, it’s beyonce’s job to perfect her dance routines, build up stamina and strengthen her core muscles, as dancing is a major component of her ‘entertainment’ and I’m not even a Beyonce’s fan but I get sick of people saying’ohhh but NORMAL women can’t do that!!’. Obviouslly, when it is part of your job description, yes you can.
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Not to mention, My mom managed to lose all her baby weight after giving birth to my sister in 4-5 months, she was a stay at home, part time French teacher and managed to lost 20 kilos. it’s about making time and being committed to it. And this was happening while being in the middle of a conflict. Mind you, my family at that time did not have much, and we didnt have nancies/drivers/cooks/cleaners, she is the mother of 3 kids but to her, gym and exercise was her ‘me time’. So it really depends on your attitude and how important it is for you, also the time and commitment. Also why I don’t understand why people rip on celeb women all the time about losing baby weight, since I have seen it with NORMAL women happen quite a few. But maybe my family are just exercise freaks and see exercise as a very important component of life.
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I still can’t figure out why she keeps lying about how much pregnancy weight she gained. I’m 5’9″, gained 52 lbs with my first and was waddling the last month of the pregnancy. I never could have hopped in and out of an SUV like she did, much less wear high heels during the last trimester.
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Every woman is different. I highly doubt you can live sing and perform choreography at the same time while wearing high heels…which is what Beyonce does at her shows. This woman has been trained since a kid in a very “musical/performing boot camp” training from her dad. It probably wasn’t difficult for her. To an average woman like you? Yes. To her? No
From what I’ve read Bey is 5’8. So her gaining five pounds more than you and only being an inch shorter isn’t that much of a stretch…but that’s just me.
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Actually, Beyonce is 5’4″ (my roommate worked on Cadillac records) Her heels make her appear taller. A 57lb weight gain would be very noticeable on her. But all women carry their pregnancy weight differently. Anyway, I think she looks nice in the pictures but I’m always amazed about how heavy-handed shape is with Photoshop.
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She’s actually 5’3/5’4.
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Jessica Simpson was wearing the biggest heels when she was 8/9 months pregnant. It can be done.
Beyonce is 5’7 not 5’4
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“I highly doubt you can live sing and perform choreography at the same time while wearing high heels…which is what Beyonce does at her shows.” —> Um, you do realize she lip syncs right? No one and I meand NO ONE can do high the high energy dancing she does and sing at the same time.
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Beyonce is somewhere between 5’6-5’7. She and Kelly are around the same height and Kelly said she’s 5’7, Beyonce looks slightly shorter. When she’s standing next to Goop she doesn’t appear to be 5″-6″ shorter.
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She’s 5’6 because her former bandamtes/friends kelly is around 5’7 and Michelle is either 5’9 or 5’8
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I am 5’6 and gained about the same amount, just under 60 lbs (which unfortunately almost 2 years later I am still working on losing, another 30 to go). I worked fulltime up until the Friday before I gave birth and was walking around the Home Depot still getting ready for baby the night before I gave birth. Without commenting on the fake pregnancy aspect, every pregnancy is very different and I carried all the extra weight very easily.
I will say, however, that when you are the fulltime caretaker of your child, it is impossible to get in the kind of workouts that Beyonce did. I’ve thought about how great it would be to have nannies and trainers and chefs at my disposal; maybe then I could have been back to my pre-baby weight in 3 months as well.
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You and I are the same, because I was still working 12 hour shifts on a trauma unit up until delivery. However, that wasn’t my point. My point is that the pelvic spread which occurs right before a woman gives birth makes it near impossible to do certain things. I don’t think that any woman who has given birth can argue this certain anatomical fact. In fact, it doesn’t even fall under the “every woman is different” line of thought, because every woman is the same in this regard.
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AMEN sista!
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RN – Ah, yes, that awful “pelvic spread” – something people rarely tell you about when you’re pregnant (you hear about morning sickness and labour pains and not much in between).
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She looks fine to me.
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It’s gotten to the point where I have to squinch my eyes just, cross my fingers, and hold my breath before I click on a Beyonce post. Conversations get pretty heated in here. I don’t think anything she is saying here is controversial, so let me just say:
I think she looks great. I really like that she encourages women to embrace themselves as individuals rather than everyone looking the same. Now, I’m going to exit this post before the heat comes and never return.
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I think it also speaks volumes that she says she would not schedule a concert three months after giving birth again. She had to work hard to get back into shape.
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I’ve always admired her body: it’s great! you can tell she works her ass off to keep that shape.
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Does anyone remember the blind on CDAN a couple of weeks ago? Something about an A list celebrity firing an employee and arranging a cover shoot with a mag so the story wouldn’t get out? Anyway, the blind said it would be obvious when the celebrity was seen on the cover of a magazine that didn’t make sense. I’m not saying that that I believe the blinds on CDAN or that Shape doesn’t make sense for Bey, just kind of coincidental.
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That occurred to me as well.
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I used to be vegan. It always sort of bugs me when I see veganism promoted as a weight-loss thing. Vegan food isn’t inherently healthy – I used to make some pretty seriously unhealthy vegan dishes (but they were good!). Saying “I eat vegan once a day) isn’t really an insurance policy on a low weight or good health. Watching your fat, salt and overall calories is. I hope that she doesn’t fall into the Hathaway way of thinking, which is basically pumping veganism as a weight-loss tool when its really supposed to be about ethics, or health or other concerns.
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It says she eats lean meat.
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It also says that she commits to one vegan meal each day to help maintain her weight. It’s sorta right there in the text…
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Love her or hate her, she has a gorgeous body. I like that she wasn’t photo-shopped to death in the first photo. They left her beautiful thick thighs alone. Either than that though, she’s still full of it lol.
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I honestly do not hate her and I am a fan.But come on,she has totally had some lipo to help get rid of the baby weight.And I won’t even mention the skin lightning and what not.But for her to act like she didn’t get any plastic surgery help to lose the baby fat is a little ridiculous.We are not blind we can see what you used to look like Bey.
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Are you still going on about skin lightening? Give it a rest. There are childhood pics of her to prove she has always been lighter skinned brown. There are also videos and pics of her getting bronzed to look darker and laying out in the sun.
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I am completely ignoring you this time because I am pretty sure you are cray cray.So please leave me the hell alone.I don’t need you to monitor me or my opinions or tell me how I should comment.
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It also helps if you are in crazy good shape before you get pregnant. When your job is to be sexy & hot, its a lot easier to bounce back
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I’m not even going to go there with the baby weight claim but I will say that from what I can read here I like what she has to say. It doesn’t come across holier than thou and that is a step up for Bey.
And yes, she’s a million times more tolerable than GOOP and Tracy Anderson
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With help of nannies, chefs, personal trainers etc anything is possible. Celebrities talking about losing their baby weight is tiring. I won’t touch the beyonce “pregnancy” today.
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57 pounds… right.
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It’s not realistic because she was never pregnant !
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It’s not easy to take off all that weight! Why, the straps, the velcro, the silicon bump – I’m sure she had help, but dismantling a fake pregnancy is a real pain!
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This is something that has been really frustrating for me, because I had twins 8 months ago, and although I exercise 5 days a week — we’re talking INTENSE, hour-long cardio/weights sessions that leave me sore and exhausted each time — and although I watch what I eat religiously, it is taking FOREVER to lose the last 20 pounds. And I’m lucky to have a flexible enough work schedule that I can do that — if I had a 9-5 type job, I’d be SOL.
Wish I could afford an army of help to focus on just losing the weight.
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Oh my word, nobody in this world would’ve ever known a good diet and workout helps to lose weight! This is major! Wow wow wow!
Jeeeeez….
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This is my favorite part of the interview:
“Kraft says is bravely willing to go where few women have gone — talking about weight.”
Right, because no female celebs *ever* talk about weight. Especially not in magazines! *eye roll
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That is so true. It’s as if they are contractually obligated to discuss weight loss after giving birth. To that end, no celebrity ever had a hard time losing the baby weight so why do they talk about it like they just conquered something insurmountable?
Diet and exercise = weight loss. This is not earth shattering.
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Puhleaze. She did NOT carry that baby. The more she does to try to convince us she did, the more I know she didn’t. But she is pretty. And she looks good here. Hate her music, don’t like her much at all (from what I’ve read/seen), but I do think she is pretty.
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Im not a mega fan of beyonce but I’m not a hater either. I just don’t get where all of this “She didn’t carry the baby” news is coming from? Why in the world would she even have to fake it in the first place?
But yes, she is very pretty, and I do love the suit!
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I never thought that she faked her pregnancy but I do think it’s kind of weird that there is not one picture of her pregnant & showing her bare stomach. I’ve never been pregnant but every mother I know has a pic of them like that, especially first time moms. I know she doesn’t have to release them but it’s weird that she didn’t just to squash the rumors. Unless she likes that people are still speculating about it bc it keeps her name in the spotlight…
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I love the suit in the first pic for me, not her.
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Not Exactly An OBGYN Referral
[Blind Gossip] This famous unmarried couple has asked a famous married couple with whom they are friendly for a very interesting referral.
Given the woman’s medical condition, you would think that they would be asking for a referral to a doctor. You would be wrong. They were actually asking for a referral fora special effects expert! It seems that they want to buy one or more prosthetic devices to make the first female either look pregnant… or to look more pregnant than she is.
So, that leaves us with several possibilities: The first couple was never pregnant but they are looking to fake it; or they are pregnant and are looking to make the bump look bigger; or they were pregnant but aren’t any more and are looking to stall the announcement of a miscarriage. Whichever the case, they are clearly looking to fake or exaggerate a condition to gain public support. Given how the first female’s penchant for attention, no one should be surprised about this.
Unmarried First Couple:
Married Second Couple:
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“Add cardio, lunges, and a diet full of veggies and lean meat to that, according to Shape editor”
What? No healthy cans of Pepsi, no nutritious McDonald’s meals. Oh,right, she just endorses them, she wouldn’t go to the point of actually ingesting them.
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Actually, McDonalds does have healthy meals. all of the chicken sandwiches on the combo menu board can be ordered grilled except for southern style. they also have grilled chicken wraps, salads, yogurt parfaits and apple slices. they have plenty of healthy meals, people just don’t order them. I worked at a McDonalds for 3 years. nine out of ten people ordered fried. i don’t know why they get such a bad rap for unhealthy food, when other fast foods chains offer unhealthy options as well. it’s not that they don’t offer healthy food, most people that come in don’t order it. and you can’t blame mcdonald’s for that.
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No, Beyonce, we can’t. 1) Genetics, some women are naturally bigger despite being perfectly healthy 2) Most of us have jobs that being thin aren’t a part of. So our work hours don’t involve working out whereas yours do. Most women’s job confine them to a register or a cubicle for 8+ hours a day whereas your job requires you to dance a whole bunch for hours on end. 3) You have people doing things for you like making sure your bills are paid, your house is clean, your groceries are bought, etc so that you can devote all those hours us mortals spend doing those things to working out 4) You have personal trainers, nutritionists, cooks, access to great exercise equipment and fancy food. Most people don’t have health insurance and can’t afford a gym membership, let alone a physical trainer 5) There are a bunch of other factors. Some people (like myself) have to take medications that make them gain weight no matter what they do.
The fact is, having a body like Beyonce’s, unless you’re one of those women who are just genetically really thin, don’t have the time, money, resources, and professions to look like her, so it’s not attainable, sorry.
Beyonce’s schedule is made up of business meetings, dance classes/rehearsals, recordings, working out, doing public appearances, touring and dancing for hours on end at night. She has personal cooks, nutritionists, dance coaches and trainers. Most of her job and most of her time is made up of heavy physical activity.
The average woman’s schedule is made up of eight hours + a day at work, working retail or in an office job that doesn’t allow them to get much exercise during those hours, then on their off hours they have to make sure their bills are paid, that there’s food in the fridge, their house/apartment is clean, take care of families, cook meals, do any take home work and in some cases do schooling on top of that. They can’t afford the ultra fancy health food she can, many of us don’t have health insurance, so they can’t afford a nutritionist. Even if they can afford a gym membership, they rarely have time to use it. So no, Beyonce, to have a body like yours is not attainable to the average woman. There’s only twenty-four hours in a day and only so much people can afford. Are there lazy people? Yes. But that doesn’t mean people who don’t have a body like yours are not trying. The fact is YOUR BODY ISN’T NORMAL OR NATURAL. IT’S NOT REALISTIC BECAUSE YOU DON’T LIVE A REALISTIC LIFE.
I think a lot of celebs who talk like this “Oh, women can look like me! It’s not that hard! You just need to exercise!” Think they’re somehow being inspirational when in fact they’re being hurtful, unrealistic and unfair. Statements like that only reinforce the idea that if you’re not model-thin, you’re not trying hard enough, you’re being lazy, not taking care of yourself, or doing something wrong. It’s a guilt-trip that not only makes women feel like shit but perpetuates the societal instinct to degrade and shame people for not living up to every expectation the mainstream has for us regardless of how unrealistic it is. It’s insanely fucked up because the average woman’s health, mental, emotional, and physical, would probably be a lot better if they weren’t constantly being told that their weight/appearance is inadequate and that if they don’t live up to a certain standard of beauty, they should feel guilty for supposedly being lazy or gluttonous. The world would be a better place if we weren’t constantly bombarded with countless pressure to look a certain way and were allowed to maybe spend less time thinking about and hating ourselves for our weight and could spend that time thinking about more important things. But it’s hard to do so when we get messages like this all the time.
Get your head out of your ass, Beyonce.
(Oh, and BTW, I exercise eight hours a week and eat healthy and have lost thirty lbs in the last few months, so I’m not just being a bitter fatty)
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Tell it.
“IT’S NOT REALISTIC BECAUSE YOU DON’T LIVE A REALISTIC LIFE.”
– nicely stated
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Thank you. I had a great figure before I had children and it’s not because my kids ruined by body. I only gained 25 lbs. with my pregnancies. I simply do not have time to exercise because I work full time, take care of a house and run around with the kids, etc. I wish I had time to squeeze in some exercise but I don’t. I always thought I would make time for it too and sometimes I get to shoot hoops with the kids… that’s it. Preaching to women about her exercise routine like we need to just make the time. F. U. C. K. You. b i t c h. She has no clue what “real” women deal with everyday. Get a clue Mrs. Carter.
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Exercise is mostly overrated when it comes to weigh loss, calories and portion control are more important
I don’t get the “real women can’t lose weight because they are too busy” argument. If you are really that busy, you do not have time to be so food focused enough to become overweight. Energy in and energy out, and all that. Eat LESS calories, and learn what foods have the maximum nutrients for less calories. Take supplements in need be. Remember, eating smaller portions also takes less time. Sounds judgey I know, but it’s that simple – if you are not losing, you are eating too much.
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Right, I forgot all women metabolize food exactly the same way, and that we all have the time/money to afford and prepare the healthiest foods.
And, actually, you’re very, very wrong about that. Eating less doesn’t always mean you’re definitely going to lose weight. I’ve lost weight during weeks where I’ve eaten more, and then, when dieting, had trouble losing weight.
Believe it or not, not all women who practice portion control automatically lose weight! And not all women who are not thin are the food-obsessed gluttons you seem to think they are!
Oh, and not all women who are too busy to work out are that food focussed at all. You don’t have to be devoting tons of time to eating/thinking about eating/or eating a ton of food to not be losing weight.
Do you propose that if a woman who is eating less still isn’t losing weight is automatically still highly “food focussed”? Do you think she should keep cutting down on her eating until she gets results? Because believe it or not, that can actually be detrimental to weight loss in some ways.
I forgot that every woman who doesn’t look like Beyonce doesn’t eat healthy/practice portion control.
Yes, you do sound judgmental and actually kind of out of touch. You seem to be under the impression that whatever works for you works for all other women.
In fact, you know how I mentioned not losing weight/gaining weight during weeks where I eat less?
That’s because I’m on a medication where I just naturally gain weight, and especially so if I don’t eat fairly often and keep my metabolism going as much as possible, I gain really quickly. I also exercise a great deal to keep my metabolism going too. And that’s just to maintain a fairly decent weight.
Oh, and as for “exercising being overrated” and “energy in/energy out”? How the Hell do you think you get the energy out? I burn TONS of calories when exercising. That’s kind of how it works.
The fact is, I (and a great deal of other people) lose weight through exercise better than we do through dieting. And just in case you think I’m”food-focussed”, not “eating right” or not “practicing portion control”, according to my doctor, I most certainly am as all my blood levels are perfect and I am in perfect health according to my physician, who was ranked one of the best physicians in the DC area. In fact, per a dietary analysis I had done by a nutritionist, the only thing I was eating too much of were vegetables (and last time I checked, spinach topped with vinaigrette dressing doesn’t have much in the way of calories).
I am technically “overweight” by a few pounds, but according to my doctor, that doesn’t matter because my body fat percentage is in the “fitness” range (and would be in the “athlete” range if I didn’t have a large bust) and most of my weight is in the huge amounts of muscle in my legs (which are hard as rocks).
So yeah, maybe you might be a bit mistaken in your assessment of most other women and their lifestyles.
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WE DONT CARE,WEVE SEEN I PIC OF OF BLUE-JAY, LOOKS JUST LIKE DADDY..WHY IS SHE STILL TALKING ABOUT THIS OLD OLD NEWS …MOVE ON
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I actually like this interview. Whether or not she actually gained almost 60lbs, she gained a substantial amount of weight during pregancy and she says she had to work hard to loose it, and while the “normal” Mom doesn’t have time or the help needed for Bey’s workout regime, she clearly recognises that weight loss doesn’t come from nothing, which is a nice change to those “Oh, I only play with my kid and breast feed and the whole weight just fell off, no workout at all” kind of HW Moms that usually give interviews.
Also, she’s not telling every new Mom to work out and get on it to loose the weight, she clearly says everyone is different, to be healthy and be happy with yourself which I really appreciate
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What was this, Photo Shop Magazine?
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Give it up, BeyBey. Not only do we know you weren’t actually pregnant, WE DO NOT CARE!
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Wow. Her hair and body look fantastic! The swimsuit looks very 80′s to me.
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This is somewhat random, but it sounds really weird to me that she specified 57 pounds.
Here (in Oz) we use kgs, and everyone tends to round to the nearest 5kg. You’d say “gained 25kg” (55 pounds) … the next possibility would be “gained 30kg” (66 pounds).
Narrowing it down further sounds odd. I can’t even visualise that small a unit, if that makes any sense. It’s like hearing someone say, “I drive 5.36 miles to work” … it sounds abnormally specific.
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She looked virtually the same size before she was “pregnant” as she was during. She did not carry that child. Did the 57lbs go to her head? Because I see no difference. If she isn’t naturally very thin, and gained 57lbs, where did it go? It looked like she barely gained any weight at all. She can say all she wants, but I will never believe she carried that baby.
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She did not look the same. These are some pics of her before and after. Those 57 pounds spread all over the body.
Beyonce in April 2011. She looked very gaunt.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/04/26/article-0-0BC624AE00000578-705_224x515.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/04/26/article-0-0BC6258200000578-310_468x595.jpg
http://sandrarose.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Beyonce-at-Nice-airport-in-France.jpg?42e305
This is her after Blue
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/05/28/article-2150267-134D47F9000005DC-561_306x595.jpg
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Neither are you naturally white. Bitch please.
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