How Fergie Dropped 17 Pounds After "Nine"

Posted on Feb 11th 2010 11:00AM by Vanessa Voltolina

While being a Hollywood actress has many perks, there's one downside: You may be asked to lose or gain weight at the drop of a hat.

When the 34-year-old Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie walked the red carpet at this year's Grammy Awards, her fit bod was especially impressive considering she shed the 17 pounds she gained to play a voluptuous prostitute in the movie musical "Nine."

Since the pop princess is a big fan of healthy living, it's no surprise to us that she opted for help from trainer, nutritionist and creator of Diet Designs Carrie Wiatt instead of fad dieting. "Fergie restricts her carb intake at night," Wiatt told "Life & Style" magazine. "That means avoiding carbs at dinner and doubling up on veggies -- and having three small snacks during the day to prevent overeating at mealtimes."

Fergie sticks to a 1,600 calorie-per-day diet, and eats a variety of foods that help her get through rigorous workouts (frequently focusing on her butt). "She usually opts for hunger-blasting ingredients like protein-rich chicken, omega-3-rich pine nuts, fiber-filled grapefruit and healthy fats from avocado," said Wiatt, who includes these ingredients in Fergie's Diet Designs main meals.

Another tactic? Fergie's trainer, Don Brooks of Don-A-Matrix Training, who also works with Fergie's husband, Josh Duhamel, said that he has Fergie tighten and squeeze her glutes while walking at an incline on the treadmill or up a hill, and while doing simple exercises like single-leg hip raises.

For more details on Fergie's diet and fitness routine, pick up the latest issue of "Life & Style."

Fergie isn't the only star who has gained or lost weight for a role. Check out the gallery below to see else packed it on or shed pounds for a movie.

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Stars Who've Gained or Lost for the Big Screen

Being a movie star isn't all fun and games. Check out these celebs who have gained or lost major pounds for a movie role!

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Star Whove Gained or Lost Weight for a Role

Tom Hanks

In 2000's "Cast Away," Hanks dropped 55 pounds in four months between shooting the first and second halves of the movie. While challenging, this wasn't totally foreign to the actor, who had lost a substantial amount of weight to play an AIDS-stricken lawyer in "Philadelphia" several years earlier.

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Renee Zellweger

Zellweger has gained (and lost) about 28 pounds for the first two "Bridget Jones" movies rumor has it, she's doing it yet again for the third installment. While 28 pounds on her frame still doesn't get her anywhere near "fat," it's certainly hard on a body to gain and lose it, over and over. Even if it is for a dream job.

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Colin Farrell

Farrell has become known for throwing himself, physically, into roles. He spent months bulking up for 2004's "Alexander," but last year was literally a sliver of his former self after losing an undisclosed amount of weight for "Triage." Recent pictures show a still-thin, but much healthier-looking (and hotter) Colin.

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Matt Damon

Damon has admitted that he regrets the drastic 50 pound weight loss he sustained for his role as a heroin addict in 1996's "Courage Under Fire." But, that didn't stop him from going the other way -- the actor put on 25-30 pounds for "The Informant," crediting In-N-Out Burger for helping him achieve that weighty goal.

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Beyoncé

This bootylicious singer is no stranger to changing her body for a role. For "Dreamgirls," she lost 20 pounds by following a diet of water with cayenne pepper. Then, to play Etta James in "Cadillac Records," Beyoncé was required to gain 15 pounds more than her regular weight -- a challenge she called "tasty".

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Emile Hirsch

Hirsch lost major weight to portray Christopher McCandless in "Into the Wild." The young actor not only lost 26 pounds to get in shape for the film, going from 156 to 130 pounds, but then he went down to 115 pounds for the weight loss in the Alaska segment. He told Rotten Tomatoes, "So it was a lot of running and being very hungry and dreaming of candy all the time."

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Minnie Driver

When just starting out in Hollywood back in 1995, Driver added 25 pounds to her thin frame for a role in "Circle of Friends." Obviously, it was the right choice, but we're sure she was glad to get back down to her slimmed-down self.

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Seth Rogan

The formerly-chubby funny man lost a considerable amount of weight (though he doesn't know how much because he doesn't weigh himself) for "The Green Hornet," but instead of being proud, he said slimming down made him feel like a sell out.

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Toni Collette

After gaining 45 pounds for 1994's "Muriel's Wedding," Collette battled an eating disorder trying to lose the weight. Her weight held steady until recently, when she was asked to gain 45 pounds yet again for "In Her Shoes." She drew the line at 30 pounds and lost the weight following a strict -- but healthy -- diet.

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Adrien Brody

To properly portray Wladyslaw Szpilman in "The Pianist," Brody had to lose 30 pounds in six weeks (not to mention learn to play the piano). He subsisted on eating "a couple of boiled eggs in the morning, a precise two hundred grams of grilled chicken meat for lunch and a small piece of fish and a few vegetables for dinner."

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Find out how other celebs keep their bodies red-carpet ready.

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poot 2-12-2010 @ 9:02AM

Now if she'd just do something about that face so she didn't look so much like a man, she'd be set. Maybe shaving when she gets up in the morning would help.

poot 2-12-2010 @ 9:04AM

Oddly, in a picture of her that ran here a couple days ago, she had short blond hair and her ass was the size of a Buick--and her thighs looked like they belonged on a horse.

Erik Hove 2-12-2010 @ 9:49AM

Kirsty... Is that you after all the procedures?

annoyed 2-12-2010 @ 9:59AM

What kills me is the arrogance of males. Here is Fergie, a beautiful woman and a comment is made that she looks like a man, or a horse. The guys that make these comments have an ego the size of New York. Let's face it, you'll never be able to nail anything CLOSE to her caliber and your jealous. So, instead of basking in her beauty, you put her down. Take a woman for what she is - beauty.

MIKE ZVIRBLIS 2-12-2010 @ 10:18AM

SHE HAS TO BE NICE, CAUSE AS MS. SWAN WOULD SAY; "SHE LOOKA LIKE A MAN". SINGS FAIR, BUT JOSH COME ON!

pipedawg007 2-13-2010 @ 6:32PM

Oh God! It's so difficult to gain and lose wait when you have a personal trainer and nutritionist! I feel so bad that these pampered Hollywood stars have to go through this.....terrible I tell ya!

Tani 2-12-2010 @ 12:17PM

She is still unattractive but I'm glad she took off the weight. I didn't know it was for a role. I thought she was just fat because she was depressed her husband cheats.

glenn 2-12-2010 @ 12:31PM

I really do not care about Fergie on any level other then her Talent.
The real complaint I have is against the author's use of the english language!
I hopefully presume that they took a few communication classes and of course the usual English 1A and 1B english Compt.
They Best world you could come up with to Describe Ms. Fergie's anatomy is "Butt"!
Why bother with the classes as anybody off the street could use that diction. Mom & Dad should be so Proud!

someuser101 2-14-2010 @ 3:16AM

Glenn, you are really one to talk. You don't even make any sense at all. Your use of the English language is atrocious. You can't even capitalize the right words, and you have so many damn typos. Go back to school, kid.