The Dr. Oz Show
Airdate: June 1, 2012
Shocking Celebrity Confessions From
Jennifer Hudson to Paula Dean and More!
- Jennifer Hudson discusses her amazing weight loss and the wisdom she's gained in the process
- Montel Williams discusses what led him to try to end his life, how he pulled through that challenge, and he wants the choice to end his life
- Paula Dean shares her life-long health secret
- Tyra Banks talks about being bullied as a kid
- The Real Housewives of Orange County talk about a very real bout with cancer
Dr. Oz has compiled this season's most
shocking celebrity confessions. They've battled body image issues,
weight loss, depression, pain so great to want to end their lives.
Behind the fame and fortune, celebrities have the same hopes and
fears.
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Dr. Oz Shocking Celebrity
Confessions From Jennifer Hudson to Paula Dean and More!
Dr. Oz Celebrity Confession:
Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Hudson spent a lifetime
battling her weight in the public eye. She decided it was time to
make a change and she went from a size 16 to a size 6. She is the
embodiment of strength, determination, and the power to overcome.
Read about her struggles and how she overcame them in this
interview with Dr. Oz that aired on 1/10/12.
Jennifer
Hudson first captured the public spot light on American Idol as a
finalist in 2004. Her role in Dreamgirls
in 2006 brought her critical
attention and a long list of awards including an Oscar for Best
Supporting Actress. In 2008, her debut album, Jennifer
Hudson, went gold. Ms. Hudson
has battled weight publicly and succeeded.
Today,
Ms. Hudson is the mother of a two-year-old son and is a spokesperson
for Weight Watchers. [They didn't state how much she has lost on the
program, however in an 2011 interview with Oprah Winfrey, Ms. Hudson
stated she lost 80 pounds – at least, that's what Wikipedia
says.]
What motivated Ms. Huson to change her
life?
After giving birth to her son, she
joined Weight Watchers and went from size 16 to a size 6. Her success
and willingness to talk about her experience has inspired her friends
and family to also join Weight Watchers and have lost a combined
total of 1700 pounds.
Her weight loss success and ability to
inspire friends and family translated to Weight Watchers being
inspired to open the Weight
Watchers Jennifer Hudson Center in Chicago, IL, Ms. Hudson's
hometown, in September of 2011.
What made you decide that you could
lose the weight?
Ms. Hudson says that she first
acknowledged that she had a weight problem that she wanted to fix.
Wanting to make a change in herself got her started.
Dr. Oz says the transformation of
losing weight and is not only in your body, but it's also in the mind
and soul. Ms. Hudson agreed saying it's about wanting to do it and
going for it.
She never thought she would be able to
do all that she has done, so far, in her life. She now adds author to
her list of accomplishments. I
Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Was Weighing Me Down,
released on January 10, 2012, details her weight loss
transformation.
Dr. Oz asked why she is telling that
story now?
Ms. Hudson says that looking back on
where she was when she started and where she is now gave her the
understanding that her experience has inspired others. She wanted to
reach a larger audience with the book to give people hope to make
positive change themselves.
What is one emotion you feel that has
changed since losing weight?
Ms. Hudson says she feels more
empowered and has been blessed with achievements but this is an
important personal goal that she's accomplished. She believes she can
do what ever she sets her mind to, like her mom always told her. Her
would say, Jenny you can do anything if you put your mind to it, and
I did, she says.
Are you worried that you may be more
famous for losing weight than for singing?
It doesn't matter to her, she says and
now that she has written a book it's even more unexpected. Ms. Hudson
says that God is using her in more ways she ever thought.
Many at home don't believe they can
lose the too, what do you say to them?
Ms. Hudson says she was once that
person and those who say they can't put in the effort starting now or
they can't eat better starting now are giving excuses. People may be
mad by that but, she says, she was that person. She had to
acknowledge the real issue was being afraid or not wanting to do it
and that's OK, she says, don't beat yourself up. Ask what do you want
for yourself and then it's about your choices.
Ms. Hudson loves to eat her No-Noodle
Veggie Lasagna for dinner. She says nothing better to her than a good
healthy meal. Her veggie lasagna recipe is only available to those
who join Dr. Oz's Transformation Nation.
Dr. Oz Celebrity Confession:
Montel Williams
Motel Williams' shocking confession of
his own suicide attempt is one confession that almost brought tears
to Dr. Oz's eyes.
Montel
Williams is an award-winning talk show host, actor, and author
of many books. For 17 years he was doing three talk shows a day,
every week. In 1989, Mr. Williams was diagnosed with Multiple
Sclerosis and it tore him apart, emotionally and physically. Quickly
the disease progressed to unbearable pain that would not respond to
medication and doctors didn't know what to do for him. At that point
he thought about killing himself.
As a former military man and gun
enthusiast he has guns in his house and thought if he laid out all
his guns to look like was cleaning them he could make his suicide
look like an accident and no one would know. But he couldn't do it.
Then he tried jumping in front of a
taxi cab and it changed his life. He realized that he couldn't put
the people in his life through the experience of taking his life in
that way instead he wanted the dignity to make the choice to be able
to take his own life if, and when, he felt necessary.
Mr. Williams said he doesn't think it's
right for someone to force him to stay alive when his life may be so
filled with pain he cannot function. He wants to be able to chose
whether to live or to die on his own terms and in his own time.
Dr. Oz asked Montel, what is a doctor
to do when what the patient asks violates the Hippocratic Oath?
Montel wants doctors to stop rationalizing what harm is. He asks, is
it rational to let someone go through excruciating, horrific pain?
Montel would beg doctors to stop being psychic, to listen to the
patient, and he feels that doctors should get out of the
right-to-life argument completely because he believes there should
not doctor assisted suicide, he believes people should be able to end
their life on their own.
Dr. Oz Celebrity Confession:
Paula Dean
Dr. Oz says that Paula Deen's health
confession is the most shocking of this season. Before her recent
public confession about diabetes, Ms. Deen talked to Dr. Oz about her
life-long health secret.
She's a TV star, author of multiple
cookbooks, runs a magazine all at age 64.
Dr. Oz questioned Paula, the Queen of
Southern Cooking, about the negative press she has received about her
hearty cooking. She said she doesn't worry too much about the health
of the food because so much of our health is genetics. She feels
everyone should have a conversation with their doctor, know their
numbers and make their food decisions based on that. She doesn't feel
responsible for how people eat.
Contrary to popular belief, she doesn't
eat fried chicken and biscuits everyday. Paula says she and her
husband eat a lot of salads and in the summer live off vegetables,
maybe with a little ham hock thrown in. There's always room for
improvement. She shares that she does take some medications and if
she exercised like she knows she should she could probably come off a
few of those medications.
She has suffered agoraphobia, fear of
going outside. She was a functioning agoraphobic, some days were good
and she got out and other days she says death was simpler. She and
her first husband lost a business and lost everything in the process.
Ms. Deen remembers wrapping herself in a blanket so she couldn't see
where so was.
It took 20 years to get over her
agoraphobia. The fear of death inspired her to get well. Her father
was her hero and her mother was her best friend. After her father
passed, she knew she had to get better.
What is Paula Deen's favorite meal?
Fried chicken and mashed potatoes. Turnip greens, peach cobbler,
coconut pie.
Her favorite junk food? French fries
Biggest splurge since success? She says
her life hasn't changed.
What's the kitchen gadget she can't
live without? Her deep frier. The admission caused Dr. Oz to toss his
note cards to ceiling.
What is her worst habit? She prefaces
by saying she's embarrassed and ashamed to say it but potatoes and
cigarettes are her
favorite things.
Dr. Oz: Do you smoke?
Paula: I just kind of hold them.
Dr. Oz: How long have you been holding
them?
Paula: Fifty years.
Dr. Oz: How many do you hold a day.
Paula: As many as I can, probably a
pack and a half.
In her life, Paula has overcome the
loss of parents, agoraphobia (fear of crowds), relationship issues,
being a single mother, starting her own business. Dr. Oz believes
that she can overcome smoking too.
“I only have, in all my 64 years, one
day that I would change and that is the day my friend said pull over
and let's get us some cigarettes.” Paula shared. She was driving
and she pulled over.
Dr. Oz has committed to help Paula quit
smoking and Paula has committed to help Dr. Oz learn to cook.
Dr. Oz Celebrity Confession: Tyra
Banks
For every woman watching made to feel
not good enough by a bully. One of the world's most glamorous models
confesses that she has been bullied even at the height of her
modeling career.
As a pre-teen, 11-years-old, Tyra grew
three inches and lost 30 pounds in three months. She was, before that
point bully then overnight she herself was the victim of bullying. It
wasn't just kids who said mean things to her it was adults as well.
Tyra hid her face behind books so they wouldn't see her. Years later
she was modeling big name designers on international runways.
An agency gave her mother, Tyra's
agent, a list of designers that wouldn't hire Tyra because of the
size of her hips, butt, and bust. Her mother was a very strong woman
in her life. At her lowest point, her mother was saying she was good
enough. Ms. Banks was working out and eating salad and wasnt' seeing
results but her mother stood beside her. She wants to be that voice
for other women, a positive voice.
Ms. Banks tells women to look at
themselves in the mirror without any clothes and find one thing you
like about yourself. What is that one thing you can find. Then come
back next month and find something else that you like about yourself.
That's what her mother told her. Ms. Banks said she like her nick
because it's long and come back in 30 days and I'll find something
else.
Been bullied by adults and when she was
an adult. That bullying adult is looking for some way to feel better
about themselves. Bullies are people who find the vulnerability in
others and use that to help themselves feel better about their
insecurities. Ms. Banks said there have been people in her adult life
who tried to exert that control over her and she had to tell them she
couldn't be their friend anymore.
Dr. Oz Celebrity Confession: The
Real Housewives of Orange County
One of the most controversial shows of the season, says Dr. Oz, was when The Real Housewives of Orange County talked about plastic surgery and cancer.
With three boob jobs, Tamara [I'm pretty sure]
received a great deal of focus. In her 20's she had her first boob
job to perk up and get bigger. Later, she felt the implants were too
big for her body so she went under the knife again to reduce the size
of her implants. Her third boob job was to remove the implants all
together.
Tamara shares that removing the
implants was inspired by a health scare. Lumps were found in her
breast tissue and she was diagnosed with cervical cancer. What did I
do to my body? She thought. Tamara says she wanted to take control of
body and decided to have the implants removed.
She was getting a divorce was becoming
a single mom and want to feel more in control of her body. Why didn't
she discuss her cancer experience on the show? Dr. Oz wanted to know.
It was too new, too emotional, Tamara said. She didn't tell her
mother or her kids. If she didn't talk about it she felt it wouldn't
come back.
Part of the reason he does The Dr. Oz
Show is to break through the silence many people feel they have live
through when it comes to health concerns. He can't believe that the
women talk about boob jobs, infidelity, and divorce but why didn't
they talk about cancer? There are some things that we need to keep
silent.
The cancer scare was a real scare in
her life. She had a hysterectomy to remove the cancer and today she's
cancer-free. Even getting Botox today she's thinking more about these
decisions she's making. Plastic surgery comes with risks and for many
women it can come with regrets.
Dr. Oz
Bonus Tips? Best Diet Secrets From Celebrities
Dr.
Oz Best Celebrity Diet Secret #1: Montel
Williams and Kola Nut Extract
On the 5/3/12
episode of The Dr. Oz Show, Montel Williams recommended taking
kola nut extract to provide energy and combat boredom which can lead
to mindless eating.
[On that episode, no serving size was
recommended but on the episode that aired the next day, 5/4/12:
Flat Belly in 30 Days, Dr. Oz recommended
mixing Kola Nut Extract, 2 drops, to a glass of water with freshly
squeezed lemon. The amount of caffeine in the Kola Nut Extract is
equal to a cup of coffee and the lemon provides Vitamin C.]
Dr.
Oz Best Celebrity Diet Secret #2: Jennifer
Hudson and No-Noodle Veggie Lasagna
Ms. Hudson says this No-Noodle Veggie Lasagna
was a key to her weight loss success. Click
here to get the recipe from WeightWatchers.com.
Dr.
Oz Best Celebrity Diet Secret #3: Paula Deen Healthy Recipes
On the 10/11/11 episode of The Dr. Oz Show,
Paula Deen shared her healthier version of fried chicken. Click
here to see Paula Deen's Oven Fried Chicken.
Ms. Deen also shared a healthier version of an
American favorite comfort food, Mac & Cheese. She substituted oil
with butter and used low-fat cheese with fat-free evaporated milk.
Click
here to see Paula Deen's Healthier Mac and Cheese from DoctorOz.com.
Dr. Oz
Bonus Tips! Anti-Aging Products from The Real Housewives
Dr. Oz Best Celebrity Anti-Aging Product #1:
Sally
Hansen Salon Airbrush Legs Tan Glow
Sally
Hansen Salon Airbrush Legs Tan Glow is make-up for the body, says
The Real Housewives of Orange County. Spray on in the morning, rub
in, and enjoy the light glow all day. It's water-proof and will stay
on all day. Wash off at the end of the day.
Dr.
Oz Best Celebrity Anti-Aging Product #2: Kerastase
Oleo-Relax Serum
Kerastase
Oleo-Relax Serum provides moisturizing support to hair. As we
age, our hair needs extra support too, says Dr. Oz.
Dr.
Oz Best Celebrity Anti-Aging Product #3: Repechage
Biolight Brightening Miracle Mask
Repechage
Biolight Brightening Miracle Mask helps
to brighten the complexion and make the skin tone more even.
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where can i find the bonus tips?
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