Paula isn't the only Deen showing off her new figure: Her sons have shed the pounds too!
In the latest issue of People, the 66-year-old former "butta" addict explains how her family has joined in on the weight loss to lose a combined total of 178 pounds. Deen's husband Michael Groover shed 60 pounds, her oldest son Jamie shed 45 pounds, and her youngest son Bobby has lost 33 pounds.
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After the holidays, most of the country is looking to shed a few pounds.
However, they can turn to one unlikely hero in their fight against the scale. TV chef Paula Deen, who has lost 36 pounds since...
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In this election cycle, the Monday morning quarterbacking that takes place after major political events consists less of determining a winner than it does exploring what new Internet memes were birthed.
Nowhere has that been more evident than after Tuesday's debate between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney — the second of three verbal contests between the two presidential candidates before the election on Nov. 6. (The final debate will be held next Monday, Oct. 22).
When Romney opted to use the unfortunate wording "binders full of women" to illustrate his efforts to create a diversified Cabinet when he was governor of Massachusetts, the Internet latched onto the phrase faster than Felix Baumgartner plummeted to earth earlier this week. By the time the debate was even over, Romney's description had spawned a Facebook page (which had more than 275,000 "Likes" by mid-morning on Wednesday), a Twitter handle and, perhaps best of all, the website bindersfullofwomen.tumblr.com, which features parody photos of everything from Paula Deen riding on a binder to Romney and Paul Ryan holding Carly Rae Jepsen hostage in a file folder.
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Paula Deen is showing off a leaner figure on the cover of People.
Six months after the Food Network star revealed she had been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, Deen has shed 30 pounds. "I do think differently now [about food]," Deen says. "I'm more aware."
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Soon after Deen announced her diagnosis, she said she was committed making a lifestyle change. She tells the magazine she now loves baked fish and Greek salad.
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Anthony Bourdain says he received scary hate mail after bashing Paula Deen.
"A year ago, before she announced that she has diabetes, I dared to suggest that the food she was advocating was dangerous for you, and I received a lot of scary mail ...
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