Beach babe Mariah sheds two stone
Mariah Carey wowed holiday-makers on a Caribbean beach last week with her new figure. The 37 year old singer, who showed off her body in a revealing black bikini, has dropped from a size 12 to a slender size 8-but has managed to hold onto her famous curves. After losing 2st over the past year the 5ft9 diva now weights 9st 4lbs. And she's put her dramatic weight loss down to a distinctly non-celebrity workout - good old fashioned aquarobics and swimming.
Mariah was in St Barts to be put through her paces by her personal trainer Patricia Gay, who lives on the Caribbean island, but normally travels to be with the star. Mariah said: "I like water aerobics because it doesn't feel quite as abusive as actually working out. I have a trainer who travels with me. She's fabulous. And when I have time off, I'll just spend hours swimming in the ocean."
But before you make a dash to your local pool, it's not just water that has transformed Mariah's body. The star has been following a strict diet to get in perfect shape for the release of her new album, That Chick, out on April 1, and has been dining on mostly fish and soups. She said: "My secret is a bleak diet - I can't eat anything good!"
However, although she's delighted with her new shape, Mariah won't be taking her new regime too far. She said: "I don't feel like you have to be a size 0. We should all just embrace who we are physically, I'm not supposed to be a stick-think girl. It's just not me."
The singer is renowned for her yo-yo shape - she lost 1-and-a-half stone in just 4 months in 2006 after following a morsel diet - which involved eating whatever she liked, as long as it was less than a forkful! She's said in the past: "I'm really bad at the weight thing. I go up and down quickly." (Closer Magazine - Mariah Connection)
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