I don’t really understand the timing of this. Jessica Simpson sold the first, exclusive photos of baby Maxwell Drew to People Magazine, and they made the cover this week. We covered it yesterday, obviously, when People released their cover. Just a few hours after the cover came out, Jessica began tweeting and referencing her weight loss program – she’s officially signed on to Weight Watchers, having negotiated the postpartum weight loss deal when she was still gestating. So… while I understand that there are contractual issues here, it feels like Jessica should have waited a week to begin talking about Weight Watchers.
Weigh to go, Jessica Simpson! In November 2011, Us Weekly exclusively reported that Simpson was negotiating a $4 million deal to get her pre-baby body back, and now she’s finally confirmed the news via Twitter. “So excited to be part of the Weight Watchers family,” Simpson, 31, shared Wednesday.
She elaborated via Facebook later in the day: “The cool thing about the program is that it focuses on healthy habits for the long-term (and I can still indulge in my guilty pleasures every now and then, too). I have actually gotten a group of friends together who are going to be doing it with me.”
The 5-foot-3 star is hoping to lose her baby weight within the year, according to sources close to the new mom. “As soon as Jessica heals from the C-section, she is extremely determined to get back in the gym and work out,” said one confidant. “She wants to show the world and is excited to do it.”
Simpson — mom to Maxwell Drew, 4 weeks, with fiance Eric Johnson, 32 — “hasn’t chosen a trainer yet,” a pal said. “In fact, she hasn’t even thought about working out for a year. But if she wants this, she’ll need to work out a good five days a week.”
Possible trainers: Danny Musico, who works with Johnson, and pal Mike Alexander, who helped Simpson reach her sculpted size-2 Daisy Duke glory in 2005 with four months of grueling two-hour sessions six days a week.
The Fashion Star mentor has even looked to other stars for inspiration. In January, she tweeted: “New goal: Look like Jessica Alba after baby. Job well done, lady!” (Alba, 31, had just shown off a rocking bikini bod four months after having daughter Haven.)
Another reason Simpson wants to slim down? Her delayed wedding. “She won’t walk down the aisle until she’s back in good enough shape that she’ll look great in the wedding dress she wants,” a source explained.
Whenever she gets married, and whatever size she may be, Simpson will have one special attendant. “I really want to enjoy that day, and now I get to have my baby with me,” she told Us. “I can’t wait — it’s going to be so sweet.”
Jessica also told People Magazine, “I’m less concerned about how my hair looks or if my gut is showing. My life has completely changed.” Meaning she wants to just sit around and enjoy spending time with her baby, and she didn’t really know what she was doing, signing on to Weight Watchers while she was still pregnant. Which I think will speak to Jessica’s follow-through on the program. She’s already tried The Tracy Anderson Method, with little to no results (because Jessica loves booze… and brownies… and everything else), and now she’s going to try the “My friends will help motivate me, we’ll all work the program together” method. My take: it’s going to be a hot mess. I guess is that some Weight Watchers executive will rue the day he or she ever hired Farty McDonalds to be the “face” of the program.
Photos courtesy of People Magazine, Fame/Flynet.
“we’ll see, Farty.”
Ha!
Perhaps there will be a bit of surgical help involved eventually? I believe she is capable of losing it on her own…and I also believe she is capable of getting a lap band/boob lift instead.
Can’t she just really enjoy a couple of months with her baby, then gradually start to count calories on her own and get back to light exercising?
What’s the rush for celebrity moms? I don’t get it, they don’t even have harsh, possibly lifestyle-jeopardizing job/house/family obligations that can’t be taken care of by one of their assistants!
What’s the rush? Have you heard the things said about her? And now we’re going to criticize her wanting to lose weight.
No kidding, yesterday I saw comments calling both her AND her BABY a fat-a@@, and someone suggesting she get her baby gastric bypass surgery. THAT’S the rush for celebrities. If people are going to call names, they can’t criticize when the celeb takes it to heart.
~Diana, you are dead on. I knew clicking the article there would be a serious piling on of the fat comments to JS, but I’m still shocked (color me naive, I guess) the sheer nastiness that I’ve seen on various sites to little Max. Public figures have to roll with the punches, but can’t we all just agree to lay off the nasty, petty, and frankly bordering on mentally ill critiques of a newborn? She isn’t fat, she isn’t ugly, she is a brand new baby. Most tend towards being rolly-polly little blobs of joy.
Love/Hate Jessica Simpson and all the rest of the celebrities out there. But when folks start to take joy in pouring vitriol and venom on a newborn – they have jumped past enjoying a good gossip and landed straight into being an evil son of a b*&%h who should be ashamed of themselves. You are 100% right about the damned if you do/don’t celebs find themselves in!
Well said. They are human just like the rest and I give credit for indulging while pregnant and looking like a normal pregnant woman. She might have opened the door to comments by getting big the way she did but that’s not an invitation to make nasty comments towards her child
I also tried Weight Watchers just to lose a few pounds… It was absolutely not for me since nothing is forbidden and I indulged in everything… I need strict rules in a diet that I can stick to – and I think Jessica would need them as well…
Let’s see if she makes it 😉
Oh that’s not good…no one will come between her and her buttered pop tarts.
..or her slutty brownies
I gained weight on Weight Watchers.
Farty McDonalds, best name ever.
Hey! You removed “Farty”! It’s a term of endearment for Jessica. She probably signs her correspondence with it.
A lot of pressure to put on yourself right out of the gate- but I’m sure her Kfed can babysit while she gets her activity points! (I am no stranger to WW)
Well, I wish her luck. I hope she does well with it.
Im sure Jess already had her post c-section tummy tuck and whatever lipo she needed. I really think she’s always going to struggle with her weight b/c of the dieting she’s already put her body thru. Im sure TA’s method already screwed her metabolism up, plus she’s tiny. Its so much harder for a shorter person to maintain their weight b/c even 5 lbs can look like 15.
Funny to read this crap right after reading the Kelly Clarkson post. Such a huge difference between those that talk about losing weight constantly and seek praise for their weight loss versus those that just DO it like Kelly Clarkson. I am so effin’ sick of those self-congratulatory Weight Watchers commercials. Grrrrr!
Every time I see one of those Jennifer Hudson commercials, I’m shocked that she won an Oscar.
I Know!!!!!!!Those commercials are almost comical-though the singing “sun in the sky” is shrill and aggravating.
I hit the mute button or change the channel – I don’t want to hear JHud’s or Madame Butterfly’s warbling.
Wow! I missed baby’s debut yesterday. Maxwell is really…..chubby
so, how much money has she made off this kid already? 5 million?? and the child is only a month old.
the greed is rather disgusting.
Her face looks photoshopped…Like a double-chin was removed or something?
Check out her hand/shoulder ratio!! FREAKY! Man hands?(BAD photoshop!)
I like your name. ☻
Wow! Her hands are giant lol They just pieced her together! Thanks!
Yeah, her face looks really weird. It’s like they decided to make her look 20 years older.
I think she’ll do OK on it, but she’s not going to look like Alba – completely different body types. That’s an unobtainable goal, and I think it’s a little early for her to start all this – but I’m sure WW wants her to do it now while she’s getting media attention.
Well, I wish her lots of luck. She is gonna need it. What she ate during her pregnancy is going to make it a lot harder than if she had eaten healthier. I seriously hope she (or the baby) does not get diabetes.
Agree, baby looks so poor and not healthy. What the need to take picture now 🙁
According to her she did eat healthily throughout her pregnancy:
“I was like, ‘I’m going to enjoy my pregnancy,’ and I did,” she tells PEOPLE. “I ate very healthy, but I did indulge some of my cravings – and that’s okay because I know I can work it off now.”
Hahahaha who is kidding. And that kid is not cute.
How to stay relevant when you have nothing going with your career:
1) Get Pregnant
2) Sell babies pictures to People magazine
3) Get a weight watcher’s contract
4) Have a wedding
We give Beyonce grief for putting her pregnancy on display but this chick exploits it like no body’s business. Getting a free ride.
Story of the Kardashians..Pretty sure you just revealed some of Pimp Momma Kris’ most powerful “secret” weapons.
+1.
This chick (and her team) are so transparent that it disgusts me.
She disgusts me. Maybe that healthy diet she’s eating now, shoulda been done…Oh, I don’t know…when she was pregnant???
No wonder she stuffed herself on deep friend crap and all that other junk through her pregnancy. There was no accountability due to the fact a $4 million dollar deal was awaiting her to slim down. It’s not just the weight but she put her health and the baby’s health at risk. No wonder her baby is huge and who knows what damage she caused not caring. She’s already proved to be a terrible mother before the baby was even born.
There was a blind item a while back that was obviously about Jess and her weight gain. It basically said that she was intentionally gaining weight throughout her pregnancy (not hard to believe, who the heck eats buttered poptarts?!) and has had a deal in the works with weight watchers since she got pregnant. It also said that she would get surgery instead of do the work to show “how easy it is” to take off the weight with their program.
I think this could be a case of a blind coming true. I can’t wait to see how fast she takes it off.
Her contract with WW would most likely prohibit any surgical methods because it would reflect poorly on WW. However, if she does not lose weight continuously, they will probably drop her. Thing about WW is that it really works. I use it as my go-to diet. The WW plan is really healthy and forces you to think about what you are eating. Much like spending money, you can spend 25 points, and you don’t want to waste those points on crap food. After a while it becomes automatic and you have control.
I know how weight watchers works, I was on it for a while a couple years ago. But yeah, there was a blind item about Jess and there was also one talking about Jennifer Hudson and how she used surgery to make weight watchers appear more effective. You can’t tell me that people don’t fudge the truth when it comes to huge endorsement deals, or that the endorsers themselves don’t know about it.
Weight watchers may really be about helping people, but at it’s inner core it’s a business and businesses are all about the bottom line. What’s the point of paying someone millions of dollars to endorse your product if your product doesn’t seem effective and won’t encourage new members to join? Exactly. There is no point.
Hopefully Jessica hasn’t saddled that little girl with a lifetime of weight issues by being such a pig when she was pregnant. If that baby is being gorged with food for nine months wouldn’t it have a huge appetite at birth? Does feeding it normally after birth then constitute a diet for the poor thing? Didn’t Jessica think that at least some of the butter that she slathered on her poptarts would end up as fat in her baby?
It will be interesting to see how dedicated she is to healthy eating when feeding her own kid. Considering how unhealthy that baby looks I can’t see things changing. Jessica is just too comfortable being oblivous.
Stuuuupid.
“The cool thing about the program is that it focuses on healthy habits for the long-term (and I can still indulge in my guilty pleasures every now and then, too). I have actually gotten a group of friends together who are going to be doing it with me.”
lol..does anyone actually believe Jessica came up with that herself?:)
But seriously though, who cares if she’s gained weight? Lots of people do. I think people should leave her alone and focus on their own issues before attacking her for hers.
Something tells me Jess’ definition of “indulging” differs greatly from WW’s definition of “indulging.”
@ funnygirl22:
“…who cares if she’s gained weight? Lots of people do.”
The problem with that, is that Jessica likely crossed the line with her binge eating of crappy, processed junk food, filled with sugar and salt and her child will be the one to suffer when/if health complications arise.
Well… good luck to her, I guess. Losing weight is hard.
I’m a WW fan. I’m almost half way to my goal, using their plan. I’m honestly surprised… (For real? I can eat all the fruit I want?) But, it’s working where nothing else has. And I’ve stuck with it longer and lost more weight than any other diet I’ve tried. I love that there are tons of recipes on the WW site and personal blogs so I don’t have to figure them out myself, and bonus!, my husband likes most of them. 🙂
Congratulations, and good luck to come.
I know! The new points plus is even better than the old points system. I like that when I get the munchies, I can hit up the frozen grapes and it’s no points. And I lose weight!
Jeez! Nowadays celebrities won’t take a dump without making money off it!!!
Ahahaha! Blue Ivy’s used diaper is up on EBay!
TC I agree.