Jennifer Hudson has lost so much weight; she looks nearly unrecognizable from her former self.  Grammy and Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson graces Good Housekeeping’s February cover, on newsstands January 10.  In the interview, the singer/actress reveals the secrets to her 80-pound weight loss, and opens up about her 2-year-old son David.  She said that early on, she remembers one of the musical directors telling her that everything about her was too big – her voice, her size and her personality.  Hudson said she asked the director isn’t that what being a star is adding that stars are larger than life.

Hudson said that her son inspired her to get healthy.  According to her, everything changed the day her son, David Jr., was born adding that motherhood bring tremendous responsibilities but none greater than the obligation she felt to get healthy and be there for her son.  She said that David deserved to have a mama who could run after him without getting winded or getting tired, to have a role model who could teach him to make healthy food choices.  She said that she need him to grow up with a mama who always would be there for him by caring enough about herself to take control of her health and her eating.

According to Hudson, her son, David, has never known her overweight and if he sees a clip of the old Jennifer from Dreamgirls, he does not know who it is.  Even though she has basically lost a lot of weight, Jennifer said that she still has her food cravings.  According to her, she will find a calm, peaceful moment to sit back and eat her chocolate which she makes sure is really good quality too noting quality over quantity.  On her son’s affinity for green vegetables, Hudson said that it is the cutest thing thinking that it is really working.  She laughs about an occasion when the two of them were watching TV and all he wanted to do was lie in her lap and eat cookies.  But now he knows his limits, Hudson said noting that he sees her example and knows that he is going to get two not the whole box.

Apparently Jennifer Hudson told a reporter on the Oscar red carpet that cutting carbs was part of the secret to her weight loss.  According to her, she just made sure that she stuck on her weight watchers adding that she also took the extra mile to delete the carbs.  Of course, almost any time a person cuts calories, they are going to be cutting carbs as part of that, and it has been argued that this probably enhances the weight loss. But it sounds as though Ms. Hudson focused on cutting back on carbs.  She is reported to have said that she made sure that when she felt the need to eat something crunchy she ate nuts instead and stayed away from the carbs.

As her new 2011 ad as a size-6 bombshell continues to wow onlookers, consider her rollercoaster weight loss journey through the years.  While no one can say how much weight Jennifer lost with Weight Watchers, it is clear that diet and exercise or a lack thereof are the keys to losing, gaining, and maintaining a healthy weight.  However you choose to get to your weight goals, keep her journey in mind.

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Jennifer Hudson who is a recording artist and actress as well as a spokesperson was born on September 12, 1981. She was baptized as Jennifer Kate Hudson. She was the third and the youngest child of Darnell Donnerson and Samuel Simpson. Hudson graduated at the Dubar Vocational School in year 1999.

Jennifer considered, Whitney Houston and Aretha Franklin as well as Patti LaBelle as her biggest motivation and encouragement. At the very young age of seven, she got her first by performing and singing in the church as a choir and doing a Community Theater with the aid of her late caring grandmother, Julia.

Hudson, 29, earned her prominence when she join the third season of the American Idol show, unfortunately she was failed to win the said show. However, she ended as the seventh placer of the show in year 2004. In year 2006, Hudson made her first ever film appearance on the musical drama film of Dreamgirls, which she garnered several awards such as Academy Award for the Best Supporting Actress and a Golden Globe Award, as BAFTA Award and an NAACP Image Award as well as Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Jennifer Hudson was also honored a Grammy Award for her performance on her album called, Jennifer Hudson. The said album has been released in late 2008 on Arista Records and it considered by the RIAA as a certified old because the album reached the number of 800,000 copies across the United States. The estimated sales of the album have surpassed her hit single entitled as, Spotlight.

Hudson had a break after her mother as well as brother and nephew have been killed in a shooting in late 2008 and on the following year, she return and made her public appearance and performed for some shows like Super Bowl XLIIIm the Grammy Award s and American Idol as well as The Oprah Winfrey Show. Jennifer Hudson was considered as one of the friends of the US President Barack Obama and she was even invited together with him in a fundraiser in May at Beverly Hills. In addition, Hudson has even performed on White House at its ‘Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement’ event.

On March 22, 2011 Hudson released her second studio album called Remember Me. The said album has landed on the number two spot of the Billboard 200 after the album sold number of 165,000 copies on its first week. In addition, Hudson’s major single entitled, Where You At has been released on January 24, 2011 and on February 3, 2011 because of the radio play, the said single debuted on the Billboard Hot R&B / Hip-Hop songs list and the single was on the 53 spot.

On May 25, 2011 Jennifer Hudson stated on the Australian Radio show that her work and hectic schedule only showed that she as well as her fiancé Otunga lives apart up to three to four days and she was honored this time because of the reason that she and Otunga were still together and currently enjoying their company.

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