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According to ‘Shape Magazine’, Grammy-winning vegetarian Carrie Underwood has dropped between 15 and 20 pounds since her American Idol days. How did she do that? By hitting the treadmill, swimming and sticking to healthy foods. Although she admits to a weakness for cheese, Carrie prevents herself from overindulging by keeping a food diary and carrying around whole grain Kashi bars wherever she goes. Nice trick gurl!

As for Kelly Clarkson, the original queen of AI, she does not reportedly believe in diets. However, being in the music business forced her to refined her eating habits (focusing on portion control) and amping up her fitness routine instead of following any particular diet plan. Kelly has told ‘Us Weekly’ that she indulges in her penchant for chocolate, but only to a certain point.

After a five-year battle with bulimia, AI season 5 runner-up Katherine McPhee managed to drop 30 pounds the healthy way by sticking to the Intuitive eating plan. She told Shape Magazine that the plan worked because she can munch on anything she pleases, but when she’s full, she stops. Exercise-wise, Katherine tones her muscles with weight training and likes to walk on the treadmill for 45 minutes four to five days a week.

Here are some new pictures of Kelly Clarkson, taken at MOTO 9, Motorola’s 9th Anniversary Party on November 8.

Has she gained more weight, or are these photos just taken from a bad angle?

More pictures of Kelly Clarkson…

I just watched Kelly Clarkson’s latest music video “Don’t Waste Your Time” and I couldn’t help but notice how slim she looks.

I don’t know how much video editing they did, but it seems to be a lot. I’m just puzzled why they try to make her look thinner in every photoshoot and music video, can’t they just accept the way she looks?

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To see the difference between her weight in the video and her weight in real life, here’s a very recent photo of Kelly Clarkson performing at Andre Agassi’s 12th annual Grand Slam for Children benefit concert.

More Kelly Clarkson photos & news:
Kelly Clarkson in Blender Magazine’s August 2007 issue
Kelly Clarkson gets photoshopped on Elle July 2007 cover
Kelly Clarkson is pressured to lose weight by studio

Kelly Clarkson is on the cover of the August 2007 issue of Blender Magazine. I have no idea how much Photoshop was involved, but the pictures look great.

The interview is also pretty interesting. Among other things, she says she’s afraid of… mouth herpes.

On what she does in her free time: “You know, I never go out. If I’m in L.A., I’m usually at my house playing Guitar Hero.”

On her lying music label, BMG: “Everyone keeps saying how hard this record because be because of all the crap surrounding it, but that last one was really hard to make. I literally got told to my face that it wouldn’t sell more than 600,000 copies. And I got lied to. One reason I don’t like working with people at the label is that they like. They told me, ‘We really want you to go to Sweden. These people really want to write with you.’ So I flew to Sweden with lyrics I’d written to this track I’d been sent, ‘Since U Been Gone.’ I get there, and the writers are like, ‘Oh, we already have lyrics. We just want you to sing it.’ It was really awkward. It was mean. That’s why there’s no relationship with them. Because I don’t like to be lied to.

On ex-boyfriend David Hodges, former Evanescence keyboardist: “I didn’t even really like the guy. I’m more mad at myself for being so blding. Why would I pick someone like him to date? What’s wrong with me? … It’s fine in the end. Maybe I had to go through that and learn more about myself. Maybe that’s why I don’t date much, either.”

On how many boys she’s made out with: “Four? No, wait. Oh my God, five! I have major trust issues. [laughs] I just don’t make out with people. That’s a waste of my kisses and time. And it’s so personal. It’s like, my face. Plus, I’m afraid of mouth herpes.”

On her face-to-face meeting with music exec Clive Davis: “It was nice. IT was just the two of us, and his dog. I was like, I don’t know you very well, and I am not a bulls******. I get you don’t like the album. You’re 80; you’re not supposed to like my album. I said, ‘Clive, I’m going to make tons of albums. It doesn’t have to be mainstream every time. Then he kept bringing up people he’s worked with. ‘You’re a Whitney! You’re a Mariah!’ ‘First of all, Mariah writes a lot of her stuff. Secondly, I dont’ want a career like either of those singers. That’s why it’s hard for us to make an album. You don’t know me! You don’t know what I like, and you don’t know what my fans like.” [Source]

Photo source: danasdirt.com

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