Skinny VS Curvy

On giving birth to her twins:
“Pregnancy was probably the best and the hardest thing I’ll ever go through. I know for a lot of women, it can be wonderful and relatively easy. But for me, it was like ‘Okay, honey, do you have to do everything the hard way?’”

On losing the baby weight thanks to Jenny Craig:
“I used to be able to slim down just by exercising more, but that’s changed. Since having the babies, I realize that 90 percent of losing weight is my diet.”

… says Mariah in Shape Magazine.

Mariah Carey lost 70 lbs since giving birth to twins back in April and she is ready to share a few thoughts on her success:

‘I’m proud of how hard I worked to get my body back. I had to do this for me. As an artist, I use my voice to entertain. But, today I want to use my voice to draw attention to a serious matter. Two-thirds of the country is placing themselves at risk for heart disease and diabetes. Largely, that is due to unhealthy eating patterns and lack of physical activity.”

“I obtained a greater understanding of this when I was pregnant with my twins and dealing with my own health issues. That’s why I feel so strongly about working with Jenny and the American Heart Association to help Americans get serious about their health as it pertains to these issues which are so important.”

… says Mariah.

Left: New mom Mariah (41) arriving at The Dorchester Hotel in London in an all black outfit.

Right: Mariah at the Noble Gift Gala at The Dorchester in red hot number.

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… out of which, 40 pounds were just water weight. Let’s see the details from US Weekly.

“I gained an enormous amount of weight,” the Grammy-winner superstar tells Us of welcoming her son and daughter April 30 with hubby Nick Cannon. How’d she slim down? Beginning in July, Carey buckled down with a nutritionist and a workout plan from Jenny (formerly Jenny Craig), keeping to a 1,500-calorie-a-day menu and thrice-weekly workouts.

“I feel incredible,” the “Fly Like a Bird” singer tells Us, three months after her body transformation began. She and Cannon, 31, famously struggled to conceive their twins (born via C-section at 35 weeks) after a heartbreaking miscarriage.

“It was a huge blessing to be able to have the babies,” Carey says, “But I felt trapped in my body because I couldn’t move.”

Adds the once-again svelte star: “I’m proud of how hard I worked to get my body back…I had to do this for me.”

Let’s continue the story of Mariah’s weight loss from People:

    “In the beginning, when I first had the babies, I had so much edema … water and swelling. Most pregnant woman have that just in their feet,” Carey says. “One day I was doing my thank-you notes and I noticed it started rising up the leg, so I had edema. … I didn’t think I would ever be the same person.”

Diet Plan Spokeswoman
Once she’d shed the water weight, Carey embarked on the Jenny diet plan (formerly Jenny Craig), for which she now serves as a spokeswoman.

“The first week, I lost 40 lbs. … of just water,” Carey says. “It was just water, initially. When I started with the program, I lost at least 30 lbs. of weight that needed to be lost.”

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… says her husband, Nick Cannon, who recently told OK! Magazine that his wife is shedding the baby weight rapidly:

“She is getting the weight off. She is about to be 1990 again!”

Pictured above: Mariah’s Twitter photo with the caption: ‘Jogging puppystyle!’

Pictured below: Mariah in 1993.