Katherine McPhee Opens Up About Bulimia (And Shares Her Workout)
January 22, 2010 in Katherine McPhee by Versus
3 in 1: Katherine McPhee talks about her bulimic past, shares her workout… and poses in a bikini on the cover of Shape Magazine.
From US Weekly:
“The more I focused on my weight, the worse my bulimia got,” says the American Idol runner-up, 25. “Now I’m more easygoing. I stopped fighting myself and became more forgiving of my body. Ironically, the weight came off naturally through exercise but no dieting.”
McPhee says she no longer pays attention to how many pounds she weighs.
“At my last physical, the nurse took my vitals and said, ‘Wow, you must be taking care of yourself! Your blood pressure is perfect. You’re very healthy,’” she says. “Hearing her say that made me feel better then seeing an ‘ideal’ number on the scale.”
See Katherine’s workout with pictures on the next page!
Wow. I really wonder why they have to photoshop the cover girls so much. And the magazine is even called “Shape”!
Wow, very nice toned body! Like it a lot! I don’t know the girl(I’m from Greece). I agree with her that the best way to lose weight is through exercising and not dieting. That’s how I shed off weight this year. Not that I was especially in the need of, but I now feel very comfortable in my skin and there is nothing better than this! I also stopped fighting my body(at last!). I don’t want to say that you should lose weight and be very thin in order to feel happy with your yourself. This is only my personal feeling, because at 52 kgs(around 104 pounds I think-we don’t use pounds in Greece), I didn’t feel so comfortable with having love handles and ‘buns’(don’t know how the extra fat at the outer side at the top of your legs it’s called in English-I’m not sure if someone understands what I say) and a small bum. At 49kgs(around 98 pounds) now through exercising, my ”problem areas” are way better and I will keep up building a healthy and toned body cause I really feel confident. I know that some might think that the pound are low(I’m 1.66-don’t know inches cause we don’t use them in my country!-can anyone help??), but I’m healthy and eating pretty normally and balanced honestly. And I did have love handles, ”buns” and a wide waist even at that pounds, because I naturally have curves and I have a body type which is a common one for Mediterranean countries.
Glad to hear you’re happy with your body. Calculating your BMI, you’re slightly low at 17.8, but if you keep building good lean muscle and eating healthy, you should be able to put on a wee bit of weight to take you into the healthier BMI range. That said, I don’t know you and haven’t seen you in person, and BMI is not the best way of determining how healthy someone is… And 1.66 is around 5″4.
166 cm is just over 5’5″ while 49 kg is around 110 lbs. Don’t mind me, converting psycho over here.
49 kilo os about 103 pounds
Thank you dizzy too!
no it isn’t; 1 kg = 2.2 lbs; maths is not that hard
there are numerous kg to lbs calculators just google. geeze, the stupid things people will argue. THESE ARE FACTS NOT OPINIONS
What you mean Uma by converting into a psycho over here? Thank you for your info! Hadn’t notice it before!
Thank you CAMMY! I hadn’t noticed your comment before, because I’m studying a lot.. We have exams at the university and I had a heavy head at the time I checked the other comments here. I want to put 21kg, cause more really don’t look the best on me. I’m not obsessed wiyh my weight or anythjing, but I like the new more toned my and I feel more confident.
im sure she is in good shape, but really, a 25 year old woman should have perfect blood pressure – it would be more interesting to know what her resting heart-rate is. I don’t know why her nurse was so impressed by her. And yes, most of our country is overweight or obese, but blood pressure is usually still pretty low in the 20s, it begins to slowly rise as the years of extra weight begin to take a toll on your body.
I think the nurse was so impressed by her, because she was suffering from bulimia and still had very good results on her medical examination…
In the cover, her waist seems so tiny.. Don’t know if it’s real or not. Versus, can you help me with pounds and inches? Sorry, but I’m always confused because here in Greece we don’t use them. I’m 1.65-1.66 and I weight 49 kgs. Can u please give me the pounds and inches?
49 kg = 108 lbs
165 cm is 5’5”
Here are the calculators:
http://manuelsweb.com/kg_lbs.htm
http://manuelsweb.com/ft_in_cm.htm
Yeah, I’m half Greek, half Belgian, and I also don’t quite understand the pounds and inches. Like I can pretty guess them, but the kilos and meters are more obvious for us from Europe.
But it’s quite easy to calculate in your head a rough estimate even if u don’t wanna use the calculators all the time.
1 kg=2.2 lbs (about), 1 inch=2.5 cm
Amazing body but I don;t like the blond hair on her…She definitely looks better as a brunette. She was so cute with long, dark hair:)
She was so stunning and beautiful with long dark hair, she had the perfect sultry look
pity about that, but yea her body looks fantastic, some hard work went into that!
Thank u Versus!
She looks horrible. Thinner? Toner? Yes. But…the hair is awful and she looks old and weathered and personally, she looks too thin and toned *for her*. she has no personality, no sparkle, no distinction which is why she’s trying so hard.
if she were really happy and at peace with herself she wouldnt be like this. This is like America Ferrera going down to a size 2, bleaching her hair and wearing polka dot bikini.
I have seen her lately and she is soooooo not this thin. The Shape magazine has airbrushed this picture so much. Its just not right.
She looks good I like her hair cut, but not the color. Glad to hear that she overcame bulimia and accepts her body the way it is.
One thing I don’t like that she said and I’ve heard other people say is that you can exercise and lose weight without dieting. This is a false statement for many people. I know you can lose weight with exercise, but if you’re eating more calories than you’re burning eventually the weight loss will stop.
Maybe she ate a balanced meal that was healthy so she didn’t have to “diet” by cutting out certain foods and to her it felt like the exercise was the only thing that helped her lose the weight.
I know for someone like me who needs to lose about 40 pounds just exercising won’t help. I need to learn how to eat a balanced meal to help with the weight loss.
Sorry for the rant, lol.
She is way too thin for her frame, she would look much better with an extra 5-8 pounds on her. I agree that the blonde hair doesn’t absolutely nothing for her..well, except making her look old. I also don’t believe that she doesn’t diet. A part of being healthy is eating a well-balanced diet and watching our caloric intake. Maybe she considers it a lifestyle, rather than a diet, but this chick definitely doesn’t just eat whatever she wants and does a couple of squats and lunges to keep that body.
i think when celebrities say they don’t diet they mean they don’t follow fad diets like say the cabbage soup diet. its s silly distinction, because most of us thik of dieting in a more general sense as not pigging out. i know when i say i am going on a diet all i mean is i am going to cut down on chocolate and junky snacks.
this girl is thin. and speaking from personal experience i am not sure you should speak about being over an eating disorder. it will be something more than likely that she will have to continue to deal with for most of her life. and is usually about alot more than simple body image and is liekly to reappear whenever there is any stress in her life.
Oh the Shape magazine!So many faces and just one body
I didn´t know she was bulimic, So great she´s “healthy”.
Bulimia Nervosa is very dangerous and very hard to overcome:/
she looks so great now
She was bulimic before she did Idol, but she’s talked about it a lot.
So I’m the only one who likes her hair?! I think she looks cute!
I like her hair too! And I love the exercises- very cool.
Also thanks to CAMMY, UMA,DIZZY and Sindney! Hadn’t really noticed your comments before..(!) Sorry, but we’re having exams at the university and I’m studying.
This pisses me off so much! Is this supposed to help people with bulimia get over it? Yeah you totally got over your eating disorder so now you can pose in a bikini (photoshopped of course!) along with a story about it! Please give us diet and exercise tips so we can stop obsessing over the scale just like you! I’m bulimic and looking at things like this just aggravates the problem. It’s so irresponsible. Thanks for nothing you dumb bitch. Your hair looks like crap!
I completely agree with you. It’s really stupid that “ex-bulimic” or “ex-anorexics” do that.. it is obvious that they are not over it yet. they are still concerned about their bodys . I bet if she put a little extraweigth she will just start vomiting again
She wasn’t bulimic its just a story she tells when she has a new album out. Last time she did an interview with People for her first album. She is looking down her nose at regular women saying she doesn’t care about her weight anymore but yet she has the money to pay for a Hollywood trainer and appear in airbrushed, photoshoped pictures. She is laughing at other women and thinks she’s better than them. All she wants is you to buy her albums and give her money to fund her Hollywood lifestyle. Unfortunately that lifestyle won’t last because people can see through her and her album is a joke that’s not selling. Ha!
Wow I really HATE the blonde… sorry short blonde was not how I fell in love with her. I am really depressed that she lopped off her signature hair!!!!!!! That was her thing!!! She looks great, a lot thinner than she used to be. I wonder how much she weighs? She is 5’7″ tall… my best guess is about 130 since she still has boobs and thighs. Any other guesses? I couldn’t find her weight anywhere on the net…
her body looks AMAZING! perfect tone and shape. big boobs, tiny waist, nice hips, great muscle.
BUT blonde does not suit her. i am a natural blonde; i love blonde hair and would never never wear my hair as anything but blonde. but NOT EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE BLONDE. she had lovely hair; perfect hair. i think we should all wear the hair color we had as a child. but with incredibly thin hair, i am jealous of the big, thick waves she once had.
and as far as the bulimia…please, girl! who has not been there! lol. i think it is a far more common problem in today’s world than we even know.
I got this copy a month ago. I have a baby brother whose almost 6 months old. A few weeks ago, he was sitting on the bed, the magazine next to him, and when I turn around towards him guess what I see. He has his mouth on her boobs!!! This was around the time my mom stopped breastfeeding him… so yeah. It was pretty funny, I chalked it up to being a baby and not because he’s a boy.
Well boo hoo for ‘poor’ Katherine. Let me see… she was born with genes that only 0.01% of human beings on the planet have (white AND beautiful), yet apparently her life wasn’t good enough, so she thought she would obsess about her weight and become ‘bulimic’ (in other words, self obsessed). Did she try asking men out? Of course not! Much better to starve yourself in order to ‘be attractive’, so that they ask YOU out! But hang on, she was ALREADY attractive, so why did she need to try to become ‘more’ attractive? Because she’d rather die than ask a man out, that’s why.
Her new hairstyle does not suit her. She is not a natural blonde, and her hair is not naturally short. This is the sort of vapid bullshit that only WOMEN lap up, this is not ‘news’ at all.