Jennifer Hudson: 'My Weight Loss Is Helping to Save Lives'
The Oscar winner on why weight loss is her biggest success.
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As the newest face of Weight Watchers, Jennifer Hudson has been making headlines everywhere for her amazing 80-pound weight loss. I had the chance to interview the star and recent author of "I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down," at a cocktail party thrown by Good Housekeeping magazine. Click the video below to see her interview.
You've won an Oscar and lost 80 pounds. Which has been more rewarding?
"For different reasons they're all special and I know I say I'm most proud of my weight loss, and I am, because it's helping to save lives. Seeing people being inspired from there and changing, it melts my heart; it brings tears to my eyes. Every single time I have someone come over to me and say, 'You helped save my life! Because of you and your journey, it inspired me on my journey, and therefore I get to not only lose weight, but to add years to my life or have a healthier me', and things like that so that's why I say I'm most proud of my weight loss."
Do you think overweight people are discriminated against?
"That is definitely true. I don't think you notice it until you've experienced the other side. You don't know what you're being discriminated against with, until you see what others get that you don't. And that's why I always say you can never understand what I mean unless you've experienced what I've experienced."
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