Thursday, February 17, 2011
R-E-S-P-E-C-T the diet Queen Aretha is taking this
The Grammy Award-winning singer will also release an album that month with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. More personally, she's working on losing more weight from her frame, which is noticeably slimmer since her December surgery.
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| Aretha seen at recent Piston Game With Rev. Jessie Jackson |
"I want to not only maintain the weight I am at now, but better it, by one dress size," the Queen of Soul said Wednesday in a phone interview with The Associated Press.
The 68-year-old Franklin underwent surgery for an undisclosed ailment in December. She calls it "more than minor surgery." Since her surgery, Franklin has been working out and walking on a track three times a week for at least a mile.
But she said her biggest health change has been in her diet: She's given up her beloved chitterlings, pigs' feet and ham hocks in favor of a Whole Foods-type diet, and she hopes to get down to a size 16.
