Good news for Jenny Craig: Their newest spokesperson,
Sara Rue, has already
lost seven pounds in the last five days.
We announced earlier this week that the 31-year-old actress was the latest celeb to
team up with Jenny Craig and make her 30-pound weight loss goal public. The prime time TV star, best known for her roles in "Less Than Perfect," "Popular" and "Eastwick," told People Magazine she was glad she waited until after
Thanksgiving to start her new diet. "I didn't have any distractions, I didn't have to be anywhere. I could just focus on planning my meals and getting a good start on the weekend."
Rue says the biggest challenge so far is not the lack of food (to which she says she doesn't feel deprived), but being in the public eye about her weight. "I'm a very private person so talking openly about this is hard. But when the news broke on PEOPLE.com, I twittered about it and people were so supportive twittering back."
Some have been so supportive, in fact, that they have jumped on the
Jenny Craig bandwagon with her. "SO excited "team Rue" (my glam squad) all wanna do Jenny C. to support me and look even more gorge then they already do!" Rue
tweeted earlier this week. "I love my ladies!!!" She also credits her two "
pups" for being a loyal part of her support team by keeping her on task with daily walks.While many people wait until
January 1 to begin a new diet (which is when
Jenny Craig strategically plans to roll out their newest spokesperson's commercials), Rue admits to a healthy head start. "I kind of like the idea of getting to January 1 and I'm already doing my
New Year's resolution."
Have you tried
Jenny Craig? If so, tell us what you think of this diet.
Valerie Bertinelli famously shed 50 pounds on the Jenny Craig diet. Click on the gallery below to see her incredible transformation.
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Valerie Bertinelli Shapes Up
Valerie Bertinelli shows off a dramatic 50-pound weight loss on an April 2009 cover of
PEOPLE.The 123-pound actress lost weight with the help of the
Jenny Craig diet and a
workout that included walking, running and strength training with incorporated resistance bands four to five times a week.
Stephen Danelian, PEOPLE
Valerie Bertinelli shows off a dramatic 50-pound weight loss on an April 2009 cover of PEOPLE.The 123-pound actress lost weight with the help of the Jenny Craig diet and a workout that included walking, running and strength training with incorporated resistance bands four to five times a week.
Stephen Danelian, PEOPLE
Bertinelli was just 15 when she landed a role on the long-running sitcom, "One Day at a Time." Bertinelli told PEOPLE that she has spent her life "consumed" by body issues and that as a teen in the '70s, she would go on crash diets.
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As a teen star, Bertinelli struggled with weight. She has said that she became dangerously thin at times, reaching a low of 98 pounds.
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Nice-girl Bertinelli surprised everyone when she married guitarist Eddie Van Halen in 1981. They were together for 25 tumultuous years, through Van Halen's battle with alcoholism and cancer. She has said that while her husband struggled with one kind of addiction, hers was with food.
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Bertinelli and Van Halen had one son together, Wolfgang, born in 1991. Bertinelli has said that in the years following the painful split from her husband, she began a pattern of emotional eating and began to gain weight -- and avoid the camera.
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Bertinelli teamed up with Jenny Craig (left) in 2008. The actress became spokesperson for the popular diet plan at her highest weight of 172 pounds and set a goal of losing 30. Less than a year later, she exceeded her goal, losing a total of 50 pounds.
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Bertinelli penned an autobiography in 2008, "Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time," in which she openly discussed her food issues, life as a teen star, her rocky marriage and her comeback.
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Bertinelli shows off a sleek, sexy figure at the Heart Truth Red Dress Collection show during Fashion Week in February 2009. The star, who admitted to being shy and self-conscious about her body, has learned to have some fun flaunting her new look.
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