LeAnn Rimes on Her Weight Loss: ‘I was FAT’
February 14, 2012 in LeAnn Rimes, Then and Now by Versus
A few days ago, skinny LeAnn Rimes appeared on Chelsea Lately and told the viewers that she was FAT:
Chelsea: ‘Why are you so much thinner than you were?’
LeAnn: ‘I was a baby! I was fat. I had baby fat. I grew up. I work out. There’s nothing else to explain.’
Left: LeAnn back in 2004.
Right: LeAnn this week.
See more pictures of LeAnn back when she was oh-so-’fat’ (2004-2005) after the jump!
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She looked better “fat”
Yes! I thought it was just me. And i can see how she was fat before, to me she looked pretty normal, healthy!
*can’t
She also looked like she had a career.
zing!
(LIKE)
one word- anorexic
yep, she just betrays herself with these quotes “I was fat”…lol
can we have some sort of petition boycotting her sorry bum?
co-sign
she sounds insane
ugly face
She has serious issues. If that is considered ‘fat’, then I don’t know what is ‘normal’ anymore. Sad world.
seriously… i must be fat bc i thought i looked pretty good and i look like her “before” pics. boo. i’m fat in celebrity world i guess haha
Nah, you’re only fat in Leanne’s head.
Haha I thought the same thing, I was like “wow, I wonder if I weight more or less than she did back then”. But then again, I don’t really care if Leann thinks I’m fat.
I watched a small clip from that interview on youtube, and it sounds even more stupid when you actually hear her say it. She says “I was fat” and the audience starts laughing, and Chelsea is like “I mean I’m getting FATTER as I get older, so I don’t know what you’re talking about”.
Oh and btw, I never knew Brandi (what is she famous for btw?) was SO freakin’ HOT! I googled her out of curiosity, and maaan… why would anyone dump her for Leann? Leann doesn’t even seem like a good person… She seems shallow and obsessed and irritating.
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She gave birth to two boys, right?
She has some serious issues.
Ridiculous. Obnoxious. Insane.
ahh the wonderful influences of her new husband. not that i wish unhappiness to people in the world but they won’t last. then she’ll just be another insecure woman who was destroyed by a man.
agreed, couldn’t say any better myself…
Shut up LeAnn.
This comment gets right to the heart of the matter.
I think she may be confusing HAVING fat with actually BEING fat…..
Exactly.
Exactly! 2nd to last picture, her body looks especially great. She has some form of eating disorder now.
she lost weight from diet and exercise. you dont lose weight from going from age 28 to 29
she has very unfortunate face.
I mean honestly, when your face is that ugly, does it even matter what you weigh?
would file her under the horseface category
I would file it under “Charlie from All Dogs Go to Heaven” category:
http://www.blogcdn.com/blog.moviefone.com/media/2010/07/charlie.jpg
It matters even more!
lolll agree Mary. Bigger or smaller…..can’t change the face!
lol!
I actually think her face was better when fuller, but yes…glad I have mine, hers is really unfortunate in my opinion.
she wasn’t fat exactly but being bigger emphasizes her piggy shaped face. when she’s smaller it does look a bit less piggy.
She looked so much better before than she does now. Her face looks so much prettier with some extra weight on her body than it does now. She looks scary now, whats even scarier is her views on her body, she wasn’t fat!
I do think she looks better now, but she was hardly “fat” back then.
I wonder what her definition of a baby is….
Normal girls with normal, healthy bodies will see this and think they’re fat for looking like she did. They will be one big step further down the path to eating disorder hell. She looks normal and healthy before. She is freakish now. It’s enormously irresponsible for her to say things like this. And she does NOT look good. She looks like a cross between a stick-insect and Falcor. She’s delusional. She thinks she can starve away the ugly? Nope. I have zero tolerance for idiots like this.
Thank you!
Bahahaha, Falcor.
And yes, 100% agree with everything you said, it’s VERY irresponsible to say such stupidity on TV.
She needs to be admitted to a mental institution and get rid of her issues.
I don’t even want to think about girls that actually look up to her, or think she’s talking some sort of truth.
She has the right to have opinions on her own body whether we agree with it or not.
She is not obligated to be anybody’s role model. She is a singer, not a mentor.
a singer who has done nothing but talk about her weight the last few years…
I think her face looked better with a little fat on it
I think she means “flat” not “fat.”
haha! Well played.
She has baby flat?
She was not fat at all – she just had no sense of style whatsoever and you can’t fix that by getting scary skinny…
God, this woman is unbearable.
I wouldn’t have called her fat exactly… she was definitely chubby though. Body-wise, no question, she looks better now (although her style still sucks), but facially, a bit of fat did her wonders. All-in, she’s probably better off the way she is now even despite the butterface.
That’s not chubby.
Hahah! I don’t know. If it’s not chubby, then what is it? I just can’t think of a better word for it. Like, she’s not thin. Nor is she fat. She isn’t athletic. She isn’t curvy. She’s just … a bit pudgy, but to me that sounds meaner than chubby and I don’t want to imply that she looks gross or anything. Chubby at least sounds cute! Hahah.
normal/healthy looking would be a good way to put it. Chubby is sort of ‘a bit overweight’ imo. She wasn’t overweight at all.
You have some serious body image issues considering your idea of ‘chubby’.
Lean wasn’t fat or chubby before. She was thin and slim and healthy looking. Now she looks like a stick with two basketballs under her arms instead of on her chest. And she’s incredibly arrogant and comes off as very stupid for saying that in front of so many people. Just think about how many girls will see this and think “wow, when I must be fat than too”.
Btw, this was no way meant as an insulting comment. I hope you aren’t offended.
I just think that implying such ideas of body image and so on is quite wrong. Believe me, they do influence on girls, especially young.
I agree that she looked chubby before. While I am not a fan of her current shape (or personality), I do think she looks stronger, slimmer and a lot more fit than before. And that to me is way more attractive than her previous average girl-next-door look. Too bad she had that awful boob job.
I always wonder why some people perceive healthy body fat levels as chubby. Chubby means slightly overweight, and Leanne has never been that.
Chubby??? Lol wow.
i actually think she looks kinda chubby too.. or rather really untoned and flabby.
It’s so obvious who on here has a raging ED. cough*megs362*cough
Megs’s comment is nothing pro-ana. It is true Lean was less toned before, and It’s respectable that many people like bodies very toned skinny bodies . I do not share this taste, but in this case I think she looks better now (if I don’t look at her boobs of course)
It’s really stupid making fun of a disease. If you think someone has an ED, you would have to try to help and not fun.
I think what gives LeAnn away is the fact that her bones stick out so much. Toned and thin means Giselle. Epitome of toned and thin. Or, if you’re talking about someone shorter, Annalynne McCord. Her legs look like tiny horsey legs…it’s because of the bones.
FTR, I think she looks the best in the pink dress at the end.
Hahah. Can I get you a throat lozenge?
Just because I think Leanne’s figure is nicer now than 7-8 years ago doesn’t mean I have an ED. I’m not saying I think her figure is great, just that if I had to choose, I’d pick now. Better yet would be somewhere in between, like Blake Lively or Jess Alba in her Blue Crush days.
P.S. I did have an ED for 12 years, and I hate to say it but for most of that time I’d have been weirdly proud to have someone identify me with that – so even though now your comment is just a bit funny, back then it probably would have just further affirmed that my messed up view of bodyweight made me somehow exceptional. Just for future reference, so you don’t accidentally end up encouraging someone who might still be struggling with that! x
i love your comment! most people would start screaming obscenities to a person flinging around a serious disease like ED like that but you did not go there! sorry to hear about your ED, but really glad you’ve recovered!
Thanks doll!
I don’t mean to be rude or insensitive so please don’t take this the wrong way, but maybe you shouldn’t be visiting this site then. And again, please don’t take this the wrong way. Good luck to you.
Thanks Kimberly, but I’ve been okay in terms of my eating for nearly 4 years now, and I’ve chatted with ny therapist about this site and we agree that it’s cool for me to come here – in fact if you look at the comments, most people are very encouraging of a healthy body type so this place can sometimes be a kind of therapy/reality check in itself!
Oh good. I’m glad you are taking care of yourself. That’s really important.
She didn’t only lose weight, she also lost her mind!
Oh, yes LeAnn, you were SO fat. Unbelievable.
Yeah right LeAnn. All those young teen girls look so fat then they just “thin out” with age. When everyone goes to their high school reunion, all the women are stick figures. *sarcasm*
Hahah! “Like”.
I really liked her back then. She was so down to earth and I found her to be humble and to be a good person. Someone who has a good head on her shoulders. But this.. this… something is seriously wrong with her. She needs help.
Before she was a normal girl, not beautiful, but sweet. Now, look at that chest! Eeeew, thats not hot, or healthy. She looks like a girl who needs vitamins and protein!
I have zero respect for her. From what I have gathered based some of her remarks in the past, the real reason that she maintains this thin physique is because her douchebag husband Eddie Cibrian prefers it. After all, who knows if he’ll cheat on Leann if she isn’t 100% perfect in his mind…her insane dieting is pathetic and reeks of insecurity.
Yeah. I’m all for healthy weight loss, but if you’re doing it to not only get but KEEP a man? F that.
I actually think she used to be pretty pre-weight loss. I remember seeing a picture of her a long time ago in workout clothing and no makeup, and I had no idea who she was, but I thought she had a type of freshness, and was someone who didn’t even need makeup to look youthful. It’s surprising to see her now, because she looks so haggard, like one of those OC housewives or something.
She doesn’t look very in shape before but she looks worlds better than she looks now!! Its so weird to see her with a flat chest because her balloony-toons fake boobs are so crazy nowadays!
She seemed eager to change her decent body, but doesn’t rush at all to change that fugly face :X
I do think facial plastic surgery is probably more “major” in that it is changing the thing you & other smost recognize you for but really she is quite unattractive facially.
Hmm, I’m actually quite surprised by all the comments saying she looked better in the 2004 picture, really?Honestly, I think that ‘old’ LeAnn’s body (which I truly feel looked a million times better- look how fresh-faced and vibrant she looks!) would get ripped to absolute shreds on this site. I can just see it now: “untoned arms, ‘average’ face, boobs too small, ‘lack’ of whr, broad man shoulders, eww she has no hips/curves/calf muscles blah blah blah.”
To me, just because she looked better then doesn’t necessarily mean she looked great!
I agree, misscheeks! People on this site call Kim Kardashian fat all the time.. so how is younger LeAnn Rimes’ body any better?
I know that this is a rather unpopular opinion, but between her old figure and new one, I prefer the latter.
Tbh, I think her body looked bad then, and bad now. I just think its flat out unattractive before & after.
Right! So really she would be damn if she do damn if she don’t but I am going to need Leann to see what fat truly is because back then she ass far from fat l. Honestly her body looked likes a lot of women we see on this site
I agree. If she looked like that we’d eat her for breakfast and spit out the bones. But I guess people are judging on comparison and I guess it is better to be untoned at a healthier weight than too thin with ridiculous implants. I don’t think she looks bad in the 2004 photo but she looks unremarkable.
Agree misscheeks. People just like it because it’s meatier somehow, and apparently here, that’s ALWAYS better.
Baby fat? Uh, no honey. That was just your natural shape.
She looked fresher and prettier with more pounds on her.
shes annoying, and has zero class. I can see the bones through your chest. You werent fat. You have mental issuse because you are always seeking to compare yourself with eddie’s ex.
my god. celebrities.
Her old body looked way better. She looks too skinny and nhealthy now
She didn’t look better at her before weight, but she didn’t look good at the height of her extreme loss. She seems to have evened out and looks better for it.
Now if we could work on that personality…
Although I do not particularly like LeeAnn I do understand what she is saying. When I was 16, at 5.7″ I weighed 140lbs- which is by no means fat, but I didn’t work out and I ate whatever I wanted. Now that I’m 24, I weigh 110-115lbs. I’m vegan , I do pilates, hike a lot, love vegetables, green smoothies etc… I feel so energized and clean! So I can see her point of view, she probably was just using the term “fat” lightly. I think once you get really hooked on working out and being healthy, it’s hard to image living any other way.
Although her face looked 10xs better before she lost the weight :-/
She doesn’t help herself with these ridiculous comments she comes out with far too frequently- totally unlikeable and attention seeking.
She seems to think she’s God’s gift for some reason and I honestly can’t see why.
“Chelsea: ‘Why are you so much thinner than you were”
What a stupid question to ask someone. If she had gone the other way and gained weight, nobody would be asking her why she was so much bigger than before.
Can always count on you to defend the plight of the skinny!
Yeah I could say the same about you only the other way around.
I keep noticing this about your comments. Whenever somebody on here states that they don’t find ~insert some skinny model, actress or whoever’s name~ attractive, you automatically assume that person must be a heiffer. Same thing if somebody happens to defend ~insert some heavier model, actress or whoever’s name~, you automatically assume that person is a heiffer. Just sayin’. Before you go on calling me a heiffer, or a “real woman” as you so lovingly often do when someone voices their opinion, I am an average sized lady who can see beauty in many different sizes. Try not to let your head explode while you wrap your mind around that.
He didn’t call anyone a heiffer…? Besides, S brings up a good point. People just don’t like the comment because it’s true firstly, and second, it’s defending a thin woman. Actually, I agree with both your comments here S…
No matter what weight she’s at; she’s just not pretty.
you were not fat, you are ugly!
I’m surprised at how many people leave comments saying she is setting young girls up for eating disorders and she’s pathetic and disgusting. We have sympathy for young girls who look at her and think they need to look like that, but none for her because she’s the bad guy. The reality is, when you have an eating disorder, you have a serious mental disorder. I’m not saying LeAnn has an eating disorder but it seems she does have a severe body image issue and that’s a mental problem. She’s not a good role model, but I don’t think she’s an terrible person. I think she’s having some problems right now and she’s made a lot of bad decisions and she doesn’t know how to handle them. I know I lost a lot of weight after I made one of the biggest mistakes I’ve ever made. I felt so bad about what I had done that I felt unlovable and I thought that being thinner would somehow make me more lovable. It is messed up, but that’s why I spent a year going to therapy to deal with my regrets as well as my body image issues and I ended up coming out the other end a very healthy and well rounded person. I have sympathy for LeAnn because I think she might be having those same problems. She’s overly defensive and always tooting her own horn because she wants people to think she’s okay; she doesn’t have an eating disorder, she’s not too thin. We all see through it, but she’s trying so hard to make us see what she wants us to see. She is delusional and that’s very sad.
PS. She looks really pretty in the third picture!
A ***** with fake melons, tottering around on high heels isn’t an attractive role model.
She was FAR from fat!!! Now she looks like she’s suffering from a serious ed. Too bad she couldn’t find a happy medium, and ditch the loser she’s with.
I don’t know her, but she didn’t look fat to me before. She actually looks better in those before pics. She seemed like a healthy sized girl. She looks too skinny in that first picture (right image). I’m not a fan of long, stick-thin legs… But thats just me.
ugh really? stuff like this sends the message to people who are the size she used to be (or bigger) that they’re fat too.
She was a good size before, and looked better before the hideous implants. But no matter now or then, she’s still ugly.
She’s so gross and crazy
She should have gotten implants at her old weight. Then she would have looked decent. Now she’s a horror show.
She’s confusing “fat” with “heinous, terrifying ugliness”
She has an obvious eating disorder.
That is so sad. She looked so much better then, even her face was more attractive! I can’t see fat anywhere on her…
Le Ann-Bones are not sexy!! In the 04-05 pics she looks genuinely happy and beautiful. Someone close to her needs to strongly advise her to gain weight-as she looks scary & sickly!!
I’d rather be “fat” than anorexic looking. she doesn’t look better now then before. and I think that is considered an insult to women everywhere is she thinks that’s fat.
I’d rather be “fat” than anorexic looking. she doesn’t look better now then before. and I think that is considered an insult to women everywhere is she thinks that’s fat….
wow, she is so delusional… does she not realize how insane she sounds?
I consider myself not thin enough because i have issues but i would never ever tell people that cause people would call a doctor if i did
I think maybe something in-between these two pictures would be my ideal. She was a little too “soft” before for my liking and now she is a little too “hard”. I like a toned figure but with just a little more body fat than she is sporting in the after picture. Although im pretty sure that is when she was at her ultimate thinnest cause I have seen other pictures where she has filled out a little more and looks ok.
She looks 100% better before – nothing chubby or fat about her in my eyes, just a normal, slim young woman. I find it hard to believe the people who think she was chubby then – or that she looks much better now – I really can’t see it! I think she looks underweight and like her body fat is just too low now – but she looks undeniably athletic and well-muscled. I will just take a smooth, soft look over a knobbly, hard look any day – and that goes for her face as well!
It’s sad that she can’t recognise that she has lost weight that didn’t need to be lost and actually thinks that she is now at a normal weight for her body – to me, her weight doesn’t look natural at all now – it looks like the by-product of obsessive diet restriction and exercise. Maybe one day she will see it and be more moderate – she could be in between if she didn’t want to look too soft – but now, she just looks very hard and somewhat masculine to me.
She looked so much better before than she does now. Her face looks so much prettier with some extra weight on her body than it does now.
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She was a baby when she was 27?dumb
OHHH YA… What a fatty. LOL! NOT!
Leanne, STFU
You have an eating disorder, and with that lovely disease comes a very, very skewed sense of reality. The first thought that popped into my mind was F***. The second was, this idiot needs to NOT talk to the press and NOT give her stupid “views” to the world. Seriously? I had anorexia, I thought the same stupid shit, However I am better now and I hope she gets some thoughts in that vapid head and gets better.
I think she has awesome legs now. Everything else just looks *bad* , not even average-good.
I Love her body now i think she looks great. I don’t think she looked awful before, She looked okay, but look at her legs now they look AMAZING! I think she could perhaps go about stating her weight loss in a different way, instead of saying she was a baby etc she could maybe say that she takes care of her body differently now and has adopted new exercise and eating habits as part of her lifestyle that she hadn’t before. Why celebs need to hide the truth i don’t know, i wish they would just admit that A) Weight loss can be deliberate, it doesn’t just have to magically fall off you. and B) That undertaking exercise and controled diet are pressures necessary on the whole to succeed in the industry.
She wasn’t even fat though she looks like she was a normal weight.
she looked healthy
She was never fat, just painfully ugly.
WTF?
She is so pathetic.
I read almost all comments and i´m very glad that the majority on this site prefers her old figure!
it´s pretty obvious that she´s way too skinny right now and that this can´t be healthy.
she definitely has some big issues because she was far away from fat (she wasn´t even chubby) and she looked 1000 times better.
SAD!
She’s a 3 dressed up as a 9.
Much better in the old pics. The weight loss + implants make her look very disproportionate. She looks like a ruler pre weight loss but looks like a V shape now, the latter being much worse.
Is it wrong for me to prefer her figure now? I think that she did look facially prettier before… but I prefer her body now, definitely. I just think that she looks so much more toned… maybe the middle weight would be perfect for her, provided that she toned up a little. I feel that before, her arms were too soft and flabby… and yet now hers are too Madonna-muscular and thin. If only she didn’t go to extremes…
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Now she has a ugly face and a anorexic body. Also she is really annoying and dislikable.
She will never be succesfull again.
she’s unattractive either way…
and now you are just stupid.good for you.
she wasn’t fat before.
she looked good then. now she looks like an ugly stick
and who thinks she looks better now is sick
No, I’m not sick at all. Just prefer a lean, toned, more muscled type of look.
this a joke?
She looked sooo better back then! Her shape looks good softer with normal boobs. I still don’t think her face is naturally very beautiful, but she looks much happier back then versus fake now.
Far from fat but maybe she needed some muscle? Anyways, I think her face definitely looks better when she had more fat on her.
Clearly she was not overweight, and I don’t think that’s what she was trying to say. I bet she meant “fat” as in “fluffy”, “soft”. On the “before” pictures posted she looks slim, but truth is, she has been a little chubbier than that in the past. That’s not a bad thing, but some people prefer to be leaner and apparently she’s one of them.
The “growing-up” thing is obviously BS, people can naturally lose weight or fat%, but a really drastic change, within a year or so, at the age of 28/29 is a pretty uncommon thing to “just happen”. She’s probably fooling herself more than anyone.
And yes, the quotes make her sound troubled, but she was probably just pissed. Even the most shameful, self-absorbed attention whores can get annoyed when they have to answer the same question for the billionth time.
She was very pretty when she was ”fat” (by her standards). Even her face was beautiful. She had nice body then – healty, she should lose weight, just maybe work out a bit and change style (to dress right for her body shape).
She was never fat, I but I do find her to be trashy and narcissistic.
I dislike her totally, she is just so plain..njaah
Body dismorphic disorder….
Whatever. She didn’t fix her face.
at least her fashion sense seemed to get better…
Oh god, I think she just proved she has issues. If that is fat then god help me!
Aw, she looked nice when she was softer. I don’t see a fat woman, just a woman with a TERRIBLE stylist, and a HORRIBLE makeup artist.
-____- Coming from someone who used to suffer with anorexia…. she is clearly anorexic. She was never NEVER fat. She’s always been on the slender side.
Please get this girl some help! That’s not healthy.
‘LOOK HOW FAT SHE IS, OMG SOOOO FAT!’
…but anyway, she’s just unattractive regardless of her weight~
Comparing hers to my own body and weight that’s just 1lb shy of being what’s labelled “oberweight” (BMI >24), I can see where she’s coming from – her thighs are somewhat “fatter” than mine and she carries more belly fat too. Doesn’t make her fat, ugly or anything
Another thing you might want to bear in mind: You may consider her face “ugly” and you are right that she can’t change that no matter how much weight she loses, but that’s just the point. People predisposed to eating disorders will change what they can about themselves, so they will slim down even if their weight is not the issue, even if they’re unhappy with something completely different in their lives. Weight is the one thing you can control, in contrast to your face or circumstances. That’s where the problem lies.
Okay so obviously she’s crazy and has an ED.
Instead of being a famous singer now, it’s almost like she’s famous for being thin and obsessed with working out. That seems to be her business nowdays. The fact that Chelsea and other journalists keep giving her the attention she craves points to a larger issue. Leann says dangerous things that will make other women and teens feel bad about themselves. She says SICK and WARPED things.
And she’s getting attention, and money for saying it. The problem isn’t Leann, it’s the whole obsession with girls like her.
Wtf. You wana get laid right? Lol!!
Versus I think you have some spam…lol