The secrets of Jessica Simpson's slimdown

She’s the ‘every girl’ we can all relate to thanks to her public admittance of her yo-yo dieting struggles, and this week, Jessica Simpson spoke for new mums everywhere when she revealed how hard it had been to lose the 60lbs (and counting!) she gained whilst pregnant with baby daughter, Maxwell.

Jetting into New York to appear on Katie Couric’s new chat show, the 32-year-old looked slimmed down and happy in a black peplum blouse and black knee-length skirt, telling the host, “I had a lot of pressure on me to lose the baby weight.” And as she also debuted her first TV advert for Weight Watchers, we reveal the secrets behind Jessica’s hard-won weightloss…

“The weight did not come off with the birth!”

Having famously owned up to late night bingeing on buttered Pop Tarts, Mac n’ Cheese, fried Oreo cookies and sugary Cap’n Crunch cereal, Jessica admitted that eating what she wanted, when she wanted, was her way of “enjoying my pregnancy”. But after baby daughter Maxwell Drew was born on May 1, the singer-turned-lifestyle mogul admitted that her fast food indulgences had become a bad habit and that she had gained more weight than she had intended to.

“I put on more baby weight than I was planning,” she said on Couric’s show on Monday. “I didn’t really think about it. All the weight did not come off with the baby! I’ve had to really stay focused on my diet and really concentrate on what I’m putting in my body.” Adding, “I think anybody who’s gone through a pregnancy, after they have the baby, it’s like, ‘I need to do something about this.’”

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