Jennifer Hudson: Weight Loss Helped Me Find Myself

In a new interview with WHO, Jennifer Hudson confesses her dramatic weight loss is hard to come to terms with. A size 20 when she won an Oscar for her role in 2006's Dreamgirls, Hudson has since shed 38kg and insists her slim down transformed her sense of self worth as much as her body transformed.
Fit to "who I am today," has not been easy for Hudson. "It frustrated me, trying to work this out, it takes a while," the singer to New York.
"Sometimes I feel like I'm on the outside of me, watching someone else ... when I go some time to get used to who I am to get? ... The new me, how I would look, how I want be understood - who am I? "
A mother of David, 21 months, a newly released album, I Remember Me, and a wedding to fiance David Otunga plan, Hudson says she is in a better place with himself now. "It's so interesting to rediscover yourself, to be introduced to a whole new you," she said.
To read more about the weight of Jennifer Hudson's loss and how she is rebuilding her life after the brutal murder brutal murder of her mother, brother and cousin, check out her interview with WHO on newsstands Friday, June 3.

Read more »

Jaycee Dugard to Kidnapper: 'You Stole My Life'

Jaycee Dugard broke her silence about her 18 years in captivity, lashing out at her kidnappers in a statement read in court Thursday by her mother.
"I chose not to be here today because I refuse to have one second to waste my life in your presence," she said in the notes to read on the conviction of Phillip and Nancy Garrido. "Everything you ever did was wrong and I hope one day you will see that."
"I hated every day for 18 years," continued the statement. "You stole my life and my family."
As they read, the mother of Robin Probyn Dugard still upset. Her voice got louder until she finally shouted, "I hate you for the punishment you put my family through! "
Phillip Garrido showed little emotion during the hearing in a Placerville, Calif., courtroom, although he looked down. Nancy pulled tissues from a tissue box and cried softly.
As part of a deal with the justice, Phillip was sentenced to 431 years, and Nancy to 36 years.
The Garridos pleaded guilty in April to kidnapping and assault. Dugard was impregnated by Phillip twice and had two daughters.
The famous Garridos attacking than-11-year-old Dugard with a stun gun as she walked to her school bus and lock her in the backyard of their Antioch, Calif., home.
"There is no God in the universe that would condone your actions," Dugard, now 31, says in the statement. "You do not matter anymore."

Read more »

Matt Damon's Father Battling Cancer

Cambridge native Matt Damon flew home to Boston on Wednesday a personal thanks to the doctors to expand at Massachusetts General Hospital for treatment of his father, Kent, battling the rare blood disease multiple myeloma.
"My family is so grateful for the care you have given us, Damon told the doctors, nurses and researchers honored at a hospital Hundred Celebration at the Westin Hotel." It is deeply humbling to see how many people commit their lives to helping others. "
"We have some close personal friends lost to cancer in recent years, but I never thought it would happen to my father, the marathon runner," said Damon, 40, who participated in the fundraiser with his father (currently in remission ), his wife, Luciana, his stepmother, Celine, and Bourne Identity co-star Chris Cooper. "It sucked.
Earlier in the evening, Damons father playfully ribbed his Oscar-winning son for his overnight success in Hollywood.
"We try not to deal this celebrity too seriously," said Kent Damon, who recalled his shock at looking at the newspaper in 1997 and seeing his son Academy Award nomination for Good Will Hunting, alongside Hollywood veterans.
"There was a picture of Robert Duvall, Peter Fonda, Dustin Hoffman and -.! Then there was a picture of my 27-year-old son he didn't belong there with all these seasoned actors"
The actor's father also drew laughs from the crowd of 850 when he recalled the time Matt was invited to Major League Baseball All-Star Game 1999 participate in Fenway Park in Boston.
"Ted Williams was there, Pedro Martinez, some of the best players who ever played the game," he says. "And then there was Matt, as the celebrity space."
Joking aside, son Matt Kent praised for a good husband and father to his four daughters, and because he was a great son.
"He's everything you could ever ask for in a son," Kent told the crowd. "It was a wonderful ride, his father."

Read more »

This Week's WHO Magazine

Dancing With the Stars Exclusive: Our Body Secrets
Dressed in spangles, sequins and show off miles of super-tanned flesh, the participants of the hit reality TV series are on full display in the nation every week. Now, only in the WTO, they reveal even more-from what they really think of their bodies and their weight-loss hopes plastic surgery confessions and intimate details of the sometimes difficult journey towards self acceptance.
Also in this week as to who
Dannii Minogue & Kris Smith Fight Back
WHO has the story about the relationship between the star couple and the changes they have made ​​for a better future together.
Brad and Ange's wedding plans
Repeated questions from fans and media about a possible wedding can laugh, but now with quizzes them about their children when they tie the knot, are Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie find it difficult not to put on their agenda.
Plus: Octomum Shock: 'I Hate Babies ", Wes Bentley, " How can I beat Heroin "Justin Bieber's Wet & Wild Holiday, and Baby Countdown-Pink is due any day, Natalie Portman is due in one month and Victoria Beckham has just a few weeks left until then that she welcomed her first girl.

Read more »

Lindsay Lohan's House Arrest Monitoring Bracelet Goes Off

Lindsay Lohan's house arrest monitoring system went off on Monday, police asked her a visit.
But the actress, who is under house arrest for a theft conviction, was at home watching television and reading scripts, the Los Angeles Times.
"Lindsay electronic monitoring system went off on Monday," Lohan's lawyer, Shawn Chapman Holley, said in a statement Thursday. "When a representative of the monitoring company went to her house, Lindsay's representative found there. The equipment was replaced the next day."
While she spends time at her mansion, the actress left the house only for medical appointments or to the probation department. They may receive visitors, but she is not allowed outside the "inside" buildings "of the house venture without prior authorization, a step that will from her ankle. She is also prohibited tampering with the bracelet, an alarm which would also sound on her monitor.
Lohan was sentenced to four months in prison after pleading no contest to steal a $ 2,500 necklace, but the prison overcrowding problems and the fact that they are a violent offender made ​​her eligible for house arrest.
The actress is expected to be only 35 days of confinement due to good behavior and budgetary constraints are.

Read more »

Billy Bob Thornton's Daughter Guilty of Manslaughter in Baby's Death

The estranged daughter of Billy Bob Thornton was convicted of aggravated manslaughter in the death of a friend's baby daughter, but was not found guilty of first degree murder.  The verdict was announced, last Friday with Amanda Brumfield, 32, in the same Orlando, Florida, courthouse where Casey Anthony is being tried for the murder of her daughter, the Orlando Sentinel reports.  Brumfield had claimed that the death of a Madison-year-old Olivia Garcia, while in her care as a babysitter one evening in October 2008, was an accident - and that she simply fell short distance from a box.  Prosecutors said that such a reduction would not be good for three-and-a-half inch skull fracture found on the girl and the bleeding and swelling on her brains. Brumfield will be sentenced in July. She was found not guilty of aggravated child abuse charge third.

Read more »

Scarlett Johansson and Sean Penn Split

Scarlett Johansson and Sean Penn are no longer, says a source at the WHO.
Speculation about the couple began after Johansson Cannes Film Festival with not attend Penn for his film The Tree of Life. She has worked on The Avengers, New Mexico, reprising her role of Black Widow Iron Man 2.
Johansson, 26, and Penn, 50, made headlines when she was a whirlwind trip to Cabo San Lucas after being spotted getting flirty together during a lunch date in Los Angeles.
The pair attended a White House Correspondents' Dinner Party in Washington DC in April and had spotted in a series of pleasant excursions in LA
The reason for the split was not immediately known. Reps declined comment.

Read more »