Celebrity Weight Loss

• September 21, 2009
• Vol. 72
• No. 12

Kelly Osbourne's Hot New Body!

By Michelle Tan

How Preparing for Dancing with the Stars Cha-Cha-Changed Her Figure

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From PEOPLE Magazine

During the last few years, producers from Dancing with the Stars have asked Kelly Osbourne to join the show—only to get the same answer. "I've always said no," admits Osbourne. "But secretly I've wanted to say yes." So what's behind her decision to join this season's cast? "I want to get fit," she told PEOPLE. "Everybody that does the show has these amazing bodies." After only two weeks of rehearsals in preparation for the show's Sept. 21 premiere, Osbourne, 24, looks set to join their ranks. "I actually have some muscles under my wobbly bits!" the noticeably slimmer singer posted on her Twitter account Sept. 1. Adds her partner, Louis van Amstel: "I see her waist changing, from all the twisting. And her legs, she looks in the mirror and says, 'Shoot, I've never had [that kind of toning]!" Along with practicing four hours a day, Osbourne attends Pilates class twice weekly, squeezing in workouts while on a book tour in the U.K. for her new memoir Fierce, which details how she turned to drugs and binge eating "to cope with the downsides of fame," she writes. Clean and sober since her latest stint in rehab in January, Osbourne "has never looked this healthy," says Van Amstel. When it comes to diet, Osbourne swapped carrots for candy and cut back on carbonated drinks. "She's really sticking to it," Van Amstel says. "She wants this." And if fans send Osbourne packing early? "I don't care what anyone says," she says. "I just want to have fun."

• Contributors:
• Elaine Aradillas/Los Angeles.

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Kelly Through the Years

2007 "Body image has always been part of [my struggle with addiction]," Osbourne (in New York City) told PEOPLE in March.

OCT. 25, 2004 A full-figured Osbourne, then 19, makes an appearance in Las Vegas just six months after checking into rehab for the first time.

FEB. 15, 2006 Osbourne shared the secret to her slimdown: "Instead of a cheeseburger, have the burger but not the bun."

OCT. 15, 2007 After dropping almost 30 lbs. to perform on Broadway in Chicago that summer, Osbourne began to fill out again by fall.

SEPT. 4, 2008 A noticeably trimmer Osbourne said she had lost weight simply by moving "out of my parents' house. They force-fed me for sure!"

NOW "The first week, she was sore," says Van Amstel of his partner (in L.A. on Aug. 25). "But from where she came from, she looks amazing."