Janet Jackson lost 40 pounds

[underpants]

Jackson says she gained weight for role
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060525/ap_en_ce/people_janet_jackson_6



NEW YORK - Janet Jackson, newly svelte after losing 60 pounds, says she gained weight for a role in the upcoming movie "Tennessee," which she ultimately had to pass on because of her new album.


"They (the producers) wanted to see me in a different light, as a heavier woman," the 40-year-old singer, who weighed about 180 pounds at her heaviest, tells Us magazine in an issue on newsstands Friday.

"The timing didn't quite work with trying to finish my album, and unfortunately I wasn't able to do the film," she is quoted as saying. (The role went to Mariah Carey.)

[kwassa]

1. She looks great, aside from all the plastic surgery

A lot healthier than her brother and sister.

Best body money can buy.

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

2. Lordy Lordy Look who's forty

I just looked up her age and she just had a birthday last week the big 4 - 0.

[ThomCat]

3. While I would applaud her if her motivation is health,

I don't like the idea that she has to starve herself to preserve her carreer. What the hell is wrong with a 40 year old looking like a 40 year old? Can't her career mature as she does?

And those abs on that magazine cover are SO airbrushed.