Janet Jackson says she gained 60 pounds for film role...

Shut up! Who believes that? The role eventually went to Mariah Carey who is far from fat...especially now.
Why can't you just say -- I gained weight?

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Janet Jackson will be on the cover of "Us Weekly" this Friday looking a lot skinnier than she did at the beginning of the year. That's because Janet has dropped 60 pounds in four months, after getting up to 180 pounds for a movie role that she ultimately had to give up in order to record her new album. Janet tells "Us", "The timing didn't quite work with trying to finish my album, and unfortunately I wasn't able to do the film. So I found myself having to take this weight off a lot quicker than I had planned." Ladies, if you want to lose weight, use Janet as your guide. No fads and no pills here. Janet dropped her weight the old-fashioned way: diet and exercise. She says she ate balanced meals and worked out with her trainer. Janet's new album, "20 Years Old", hits racks on September 26th. As for the movie Janet had to walk away from, it's a drama called "Tennessee". And the part she was gonna play has gone to Mariah Carey.

I saw the cover, it looks photo-shopped in a big way. I think a celebrity weight-loss confessional is worth much better press than the "I gained weight for my art" BS. It's much more humanizing. Who doesn't identify with someone who has a problem? I bet realizing the truth about her brother freaked her out and brought out a lot of her own molestation issues.

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Updated On: 5/25/06 at 04:18 PM

Maybe she was preggers?

*gossip, gossip, gossip*

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We all know how Janet Jackson lost the weight; pills, drugs and barfing. However, the true question remains:

I swear to god I didn't read Perez Hilton before now, nor am I said person.

This is more stupid than the boobie hardware incident. She is no longer a Jackson, just a Jack-ass.

"I think a celebrity weight-loss confessional is worth much better press than the "I gained weight for my art" BS."

Isnt that how Oprah has lasted so long on tv?

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Updated On: 5/25/06 at 05:08 PM

It's Mariah's.

That's the excuse I always give for my extra (super sexy, of course) padding. It's all for my ART! I'm playing Fatty Arbuckle in Nobody Loves a Fatty, an all new movie made especially for the ABC Family Channel.

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I find it extraordinarily hard to believe that someone can lose that amount of weight in that period of time through diet and exercise.

She's gonna have to answer to Willona.

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Updated On: 5/25/06 at 10:39 PM

LOL! Willona.

What professional actor would gain 60lbs for a role that was not a signed and sealed deal? What professional actor would gain 60lbs. for a role that Mariah Carey could play. I mean I am sure they are not offering her very challenging scripts right now. Glitter 3?

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just as the audience called out in the emotional episode when chip fields is revealed to have burnt penny with an iron --
"SLAP HER WILONA!"

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