Ricki Lake opens up on 35-lb weight loss, new diet

Ricki Lake has opened up about her dramatic weight reduction — revealing it’s not on account of standard medication like Ozempic or Mounjaro, however good old school weight loss plan and train.

The previous discuss present host, 55, took to social media to have a good time dropping the kilos, posting a photograph carrying the identical gown she stated she wore 17 years in the past to the premiere of the documentary “The Enterprise of Being Born.”

“Oh, this outdated factor??” she wrote within the Instagram caption on Wednesday. “Simply had it hanging round.”

Alongside a flurry of feedback from followers who heralded the load loss, fellow former discuss present host Rosie O’Donnell wrote: “Can’t consider [you] hold garments for thus lengthy!!!!”

“Ozempic is absolutely working for you. You’ve misplaced quite a lot of weight,” one other individual commented.

However even after a health care provider’s suggestion to get on treatment to shed weight, Lake stated she has not subscribed to the medication which have turn out to be fashionable amongst the wealthy and well-known.

“He was saying [I wasn’t] going to achieve success with out it,” the “Hairspray” breakout advised “Good Morning America” in an interview that aired Thursday. “I like a problem. I like proving folks unsuitable. It pissed me off.”

Lake attributed dropping 35 kilos since October to a extra pure strategy to wellness — making life-style modifications together with train, intermittent fasting and the keto weight loss plan.

In February, she shared on Instagram that she had misplaced weight after making a “dedication to myself to get more healthy.”

“I believe it’s secure to say I’m in the most effective form of my life,” she stated on “GMA,” including, “That is what pleased appears like. I may cry. I’m so pleased.”