Aretha Franklin was left “highly insulted” earlier this month after she was asked to become the latest celebrity spokesperson for weight-loss giant Jenny Craig.
The Queen of Soul — who tips the scales at nearly 300 pounds nowadays — signed up with the company two years ago and dropped 25 pounds on a 1,750 calorie-a-day diet. Aretha quit Jenny Craig a few months later, complaining that she was “always starving.”
In the June 2007 issue of Sister 2 Sister Magazine, Aretha, 67, said: “I lost 23 or 24 pounds to begin with, but it’s kind of a strain when you get to 23 or 24 pounds. That’s why I got off of it. It’s a strain because you’re eating the Jenny Craig-type meals, which are very good. But you can only eat them for so long before you want some barbecue ribs or some pigs feet. Once you get off that Jenny Craig thing and you start eating what you’ve been eating, it’s all over.”
Aretha Franklin celebrated her 67th birthday in Detroit on Monday–with a cake decorated like the hat she wore to President Obama’s inauguration in January.
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Luke Song, the Detriot-based hatmaker who made the headwear soul legend Aretha Franklin wore to the inauguration of President Barack Obama, has been inundated with orders for the the grey hat with a Swarovski rhinestone-bordered bow. Read the rest of this entry »
The Queen of Soul performed “My Country, Tis of Thee” on the West Front of the Capitol at Tuesday’s historic inauguration of President Barack Obama.
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Music legend Aretha Franklin will perform at President-Elect Barack Obama’s inauguration in the Nation’s Capital on January 20, congressional leaders announced Wednesday.
The program line-up will also include a prayer by Pastor Rick Warren and a cello performance by Yo-Yo Ma.
Soul legend Aretha Franklin has been named the “Greatest Singer of All-Time” in a new poll conducted by Rolling Stone Magazine.
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Will the real Queen please stand up? Music legends Aretha Franklin and Tina Turner are at one another’s throats over who has the right to call themselves a “Queen.” Read the rest of this entry »
