When it comes to weight loss, stars really are just like us.
And it can be frustrating to carry on a few extra pounds when it affects your quality of life.
Each of them has followed her own path, but all are pretty amazing.
Like for Shonda Rhimes learning how saying yes to things helped her change her body.
And for Rosie O’Donnell she got a real wake-up call thanks to a major health issue.
Oprah Winfrey says she has “finally made peace with food.”
Read on to see how these celebs changed their lives.
“I work so hard at everything that I do.
Just realizing that made a big difference for her.
I hated it the whole time.”
She admitted she still hates it, but she keeps on track for her health and for her family.
Besides, as this Hollywood insider knows, even the perfect are not so perfect.
WhenRefinery29asked her about it, she shared, “I have, but I’ll be back again.
I’ll be up, I’ll be down, probably for the rest of my life.
There has to be something more.”
In 2014, McCarthy started a fashion line for women of all sizes.
And when you go above a size 12, you don’t lose your love of fashion."
“Thanks to the tabloids I went, ‘Damn, girl, you’re fat!'”
Alley “broke up” with Jenny Craig shortly after that.
Unfortunately, within a few years, she had gained all the weight back and then some.
“I love that you have a consultant,” Alley toldPeople.
“It’s like being an athlete.
No athlete is going to do well without having a coach.
We have to equate that to life.”
By 2017, Alley had lost a total of 50 pounds, and has kept it off.
And she’s still enjoying life.
“I can have anything I want, I’m just counting the calories,” she noted.
Thedivisivetelevision personality toldPeoplemagazine, “My first diet was in the first grade!
Tuna fish and mustard with yogurt on the side.
Weight was a big thing for me to overcome.”
The host gradually shed 50 pounds over three years and kept it off.
“Slow and steady is the name of the game,” she shared.
“It’s not going to happen overnight.
I no longer believe in fad diets, crash diets.
I don’t believe in diet pills.
I don’t want my heart to race and pop out of my chest.”
Williams said she no longer eats meat.
Newsin 2017 about her fitness journey and how her fans inspired her.
“Those things get in the way of being a good host for the people.”
Now she’s feeling great about herself in segments like gossiping with Shady Shallon.
The host also said she prioritizes eating breakfast now.
“I was doing it all wrong before.”
“I’ve gone on red carpets in couture as a size 14….
I thought you were body positive!
I thought you were a person who embraces bodies of all sizes!,'” she said.
She replied, “I do, I just understand bodies change.”
She may have lost weight, but she hasn’t lost her sense of humor.
Finally,a heart attack when she was 50made her consider gastric bypass surgery.
O’Donnell then got the gastric sleeve procedure in 2013 and started to lose weight.
But she acknowledged that weight loss wasn’t a panacea for her real-life problems.
You’re having amazing sex.
It doesn’t work that way," she told Dr. Oz.
By 2014, O’Donnell had lost over 50 pounds.
“This has really, really helped [me].”
but added that the surgery was “not a magic pill.”
She also said she was happy she got the surgery to help her health.
Fortunately, she’s been doing great.
She initially started to lose weight for the title role in the 2011 filmWinnie Mandela.
“Whatever it takes to morph into the character, I’ll do it,” she toldPeople.
However, she shared, “I wasn’t going to starve myself for anyone.”
Hudson first hired Harley Pasternak, a top celeb trainer.
Then she started doing Weight Watchers.
She also started working out regularly.
I am grateful for what I have learned throughout the process and will always take it with me."
And she’s also managed to keep the weight off.
JHud explained one of her secrets toYahoo!
Style, “I throw the pancakes across the room!
I don’t let the food intimidate me,” she said.
And I double-check I know what it is.
It’s all about portions for the most part.
I don’t work out a lot, but I do like to be active."
She does admit to still indulging on chocolate.
“I always have to have chocolate around it’s my cigarette,” she shared.
“I don’t smoke, but it calms me so well.”
She quietly got bariatric surgery in 2016 and has been on a weight loss journey ever since.
“I just didn’t want to worry,” Sidibe toldPeopleabout her health.
“I truly didn’t want to worry about all the effects that go along with diabetes.
I genuinely [would] worry all the time about losing my toes.”
“The surgery wasn’t the easy way out,” she notes.
“I wasn’t cheating by getting it done.
I wouldn’t have been able to lose as much as I’ve lost without it.”
She’s also started working out, eating better, and even riding an adult tricycle!
She got the part because she was overweight.
When she reached 260 pounds and her acting roles dried up, she decided to take drastic measures.
“I was starving myself.
But it did relaunch her career.
She got her own talk show and more acting roles.
And she kept the weight off for a long time.
“Being a size 6 feels better than being a size 24.”
But the struggle continued for her.
But I loved when I lost weight and felt good about my body.
I loved telling the world!”
She noted, “You’re damned if you do, you’re damned if you don’t.”
The billionaire talk show host/actress/mogul has been living her best life, as she would say, for decades.
But as powerful as she is, she still has had issues with food.
Winfrey wrote about it inFood, Health and Happiness, her 2017 cookbook.
But none of these are fixes," she noted.
“They’re all just empty promises.
They don’t actually fill you up inside.
They’re like junk food for the soul.”
In 2015,Winfrey bought a share of Weight Watchersand finally started changing her thinking about food for good.
She was overweight and she knew it according toE!
News, Mama June weighed 460 pounds at her heaviest.
“I saw my size as being an advantage,” she said.
However, she toldCosmopolitanin 2015 that she’s committed to living a healthier lifestyle.
“Living in LA you learn a lot about health.
I now drink green juices and I’m trying to do gluten-free.”
In 2016, she even attended a fitness retreat where she lost eight pounds in just four days.
“I wouldn’t ever want to compete with what I call ‘the glamours’ the really gorgeous people.
I’m about the brain, the heart and what’s on the inside.
I feel really lucky to be the body jot down I am,” she toldCosmo.
“I would eat four burgers at every read.
I became really fat and got up to almost 300lbs,” he revealed toMen’s Healthin 2015.
According to Pratt, the secret to his weight loss is moderation.
When he appeared in 2007’sSuperbad, he was definitely on the heavier side.
His weight loss journey reportedly began in 2011 when he was working on the set ofMoneyball.
Hill later spoke out about his weight loss toABC Newsrevealing, “It was mostly diet.
In 2016, Hill faced a setback when he gained weight for his role inWar Dogs.
To which Tatum apparently replied, “Of course you will.”
“Having your local radio station talking about how fat you are?
It really hurt,” she toldPeople.
She turned to drugs to numb the pain, but, luckily, she attended rehab in 2009.
Once she left rehab, however, she toldShapethat instead of drugs she turned to food.
Fast forward to a few years later, when Sparks realized she simply wasn’t healthy.
“I had gotten really sick,” she toldToday’s Jenna Bush Hagerin 2014.
I shouldn’t be feeling like this.
I really need to make my health a priority.”
“The high-intensity training spikes the metabolism,” Ashley revealed toE!
“The metabolism is still spiked for the next 24-hours; we are creating that metabolic consistent.”
Zach Galifianakis’ weight loss secret?
But in 2013, it became apparent the hilarious actor had started dropping pounds.
By 2017, his dramatically slimmed-down physique on award show red carpets had everyone doing a double-take.
However, Conan O’Brien apparently has the magic touch when it comes to getting Galifianakis to talk.
I was having a lot of vodka with sausage… delicious, but bad for you."
Fast food you’re able to’t do.
You have to eat whole grains and that kind of stuff.
And you have to cut out whipped cream pizzas."
Sounds like he was drawinginspiration from the TMNTon that last one.
“It started around 2012.
I was having a hard time with [then-husband] Lamar [Odom].
It was toward the end of our union, and there was so much drama.
I needed a release,” she toldWomen’s Healthin 2015 about her foray into fitness.
“At first it was so hard.
It was baby steps, but I started feeling so much better.”
She also practices portion control and drinks “like 5 liters of water” every day.
Clearly, whatever Kardashian is doing is working.
She turned her transformation into a show on E!
They were a pair of lovable couch potatoes.
I was just shoving everything into my mouth.
Don’t let his modesty fool you, though.
Per the actor’s trainer, Mackie Shilstone, it’s unlikely Goodman will revert to his old ways.
Still, Raven-Symone insists that she feels confident at any size.
“People say, ‘You look so pretty!’
“I was proud at the time.
And I am,“theRaven’s Homestartold Oprah in 2015 (viaHuffington Post) of her body.
“I love my thicky, thicky self.
At his heaviest, theTodayshow host and weatherman weighed 340 pounds, as noted byParade.
In 2002, he opted forbariatric surgery.
Eight months later, Roker was a hundred pounds lighter.
Still, he didn’t give up.
Roker decided to meet with said nutritionist a decision he now dubs “fate.”
Even more importantly, exercise has finally become a big part of my life.”
In 2019, Roker also creditedthe keto dietwith helping him stave off weight gain (viaToday).
“Since I’ve been 17 years old I’ve been over 200 pounds.
Today was the first time in my adult life that I’ve been under 200 pounds,” sherevealed.
Despite his professional accolades, though, Carey admitted toSuccessthat he hadn’t been taking care of his health.
I had diabetes,” he explained.
Nine years later, Carey decided he wanted to get healthy.
And all without fad diets.
“I had to change my whole belief system.
It wasn’t like,Eat this for 90 days and lose 20 pounds,” he explained.
“It was:Eat like this for the rest of your life.”
I eat a lot of vegetables and lean meats, and I drink a whole lot of water.”
However, that’s not to say she never eats carb-laden meals.
She told the publication, “Mac and cheese…I gotta have it!”
“Then I would have kicked it up a lot sooner,” the star divulged.
Latifah is also focused on heart health.
When speaking withEssencein 2017, she revealed that her own mother had been diagnosed with heart failure.
According to celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, it’s “BS.”
He’s also adjusted the way he views eating.
“I now look at food as fuel and focus on my protein intake.
I combine that with portion control,” he told theMail Online(viaExpress).
Like Al Roker, the star credits the keto diet for much of her success.
“This is not a fad it’s my life that is at stake,” the celeb stated.
“It feels so good to feel #good.”
In January 2019, Shepherd shared avideoof herself with other selected to pose for a Swimsuits For All campaign.
At 256 pounds, the star knew he needed to make some changes and get healthy.
I wasn’t sitting there like ‘I wanna look good!'”
he explained toUs Weekly.
“It was about ‘Get this out of your system.'”
The star said that she simply learned how to stop eating once she was full.
She added, “The trick is to pay attention to that and push your plate away.”
That’s not to say Bates’ weight loss happened overnight.
In fact, she said it took several years.
Still, she thinks it was worth it.
Her only complaint is that she wishes she’d started earlier.
“I have never been in such good health,” she told the publication.
“I just had a physical.
I’m doing great …
I feel like a completely different person.”
music producer DJ Khaled revealed onInstagramin February 2019.
According to the star, he dropped 43 poundssince joining WWin January 2018.
“I’m not racing!
I’m not speeding!
I’m cruising!”
he explained to fans.
Khaled shared why he initially joined forces with the popular weight-loss program in a statement provided toPeopleat the time.
As such, it’s likely that the DJ will lose even more weight.
“But most days, I lack consistency due to real life.”
TheSanta Clarita Dietstar continued, saying that our goals can be met “with the right people.”
For Barrymore, that meanttrainer Marnie Alton.
Barrymore shared a photo of herself before losing 25 pounds and then a picture after dropping the weight.
“This takes me so much work,” she revealed.
“Diet and exercise and fighting like a lion for it.
Damn you genetics!”
