[Joy Behar, Hln:] Real Housewife Bethenny Frankel is taking a lot of heat for losing a lot of weight very quickly. She gave birth less than a month ago and she says she`s already lost 29 pounds. So maybe she gave birth to a 27 pound baby? Here to tell us how she did it is Bethenny Frankel star of "BETHENNY GETS MARRIED" "GETTING MARRIED" sorry, "BETHENNY GETTING MARRIED" on Bravo. And the new work out DVD, Body By Bethenny. Bethenny, how much did the baby weigh?
[Bethenny Frankel, Star, "bethenny Getting Married":] I just had to stop snorting diet pills to answer your question. The baby was 4 pounds 11 ounces, or 4 pounds 12 ounces.
[Beahr:] And how much was the placenta? Twenty pounds?
[Frankel:] The placenta, it is actually in the Guinness book of world records. Giant placenta. I`ve always been told I have a giant placenta.
[Behar:] Now let me just go through this, you had 29 pounds in three
[Frankel:] A lot of this is now math.
[Behar:] That`s almost ten pounds a week.
[Frankel:] Right. Here`s the thing.
[Behar:] How did you do that?
[Frankel:] By the time I left the house I looked at myself and pulled up the gown and said I went under the hood, I didn`t know what was going to be there. I said this is not that bad. I didn`t know what it would be like. And I had probably lost most of it in the hospital. I had a c-section. I didn`t eat for three days while there. Just ices. You know
[Behar:] Three days you didn`t eat?
[Frankel:] Yes, you don`t eat the day you`re in labor and two days after for c-section. And I left and I probably
[Behar:] Why did have you to have a c-section?
[Frankel:] Because I was in labor for 29 hours, 26 hours, something like that.
[Behar:] Why?
[Frankel:] I don`t know, She was like jammed in there. I am very narrow. She was like really jammed in there and she wasn`t coming out. So I probably had ten pounds to lose when I left the hospital. I mean I gained 35 pounds, which is a lot considering I still had five weeks to go. I went early. It`s not like I feel like everyone wants a prescription for what I did. I didn`t really do that much. I was healthy before, during and after. I`ve sold a hundreds and thousands of books on the topic, I mean it`s not like, you know, a weight lifter.
[Behar:] It`s just that ten pounds a week, for me to do that I would have to cut off my arm.
[Frankel:] I understand well that I try that`s one way to do it. It`s not that drastic.
[Behar:] Amputation is the way to lose weight.
[Frankel:] It is. It`s a good plan.
[Behar:] Not the easiest.
[Frankel:] That`s my next book, cut off limbs, one at a time.
[Behar:] And you`re breastfeeding aren`t you?
[Frankel:] I am breastfeeding.
[Behar:] So how did have you time to work out and breastfeed?
[Frankel:] I didn`t work out.
[Behar:] Oh you didn`t do any work so no work out just
[Frankel:] I worked out when
[I - Behar:] It is just natural loss of weight?
[Frankel:] OK I`ve now had the baby for five weeks and I`ve been on my elliptical machines three times. You know I have it and I was looking at it. Doctor said fine I got on it three times for 30 minutes in the last five weeks. I haven`t done that much. I`m running around. I`m breastfeeding. It`s not that much of a mystery. If people go off the rail a lot of Hollywood actresses particularly are always restricted or always not eating and when they are pregnant they go off the rails. Everyone says you`re eating for two. Eat what you want. It`s a big binge. And I honestly think that`s why people gain 70 pounds, 80 pounds and it takes a year to get off.
[Behar:] But why are you taking all this heat if you say it`s a natural way to lose weight? What is it? What`s going on?
[Frankel:] I have a brand called skinny girl
[Behar:] Yes.
[Frankel:] It`s just annoying. I understand it`s annoying.
[Behar:] It`s extremely annoying.
[Frankel:] I`m annoyed for everybody. I get it. It`s annoying. I really do. I don`t think like oh, I`m not going to go around and eat cheeseburgers to prove to everybody I eat. I eat. Not a tremendous amount. I eat normally. And if I want an indulgence just like when I was pregnant, I have cheesecake when I indulge but I won`t eat it at dinner and lunch. And I won`t eat the whole thing.
[Behar:] Who eats cheesecake for dinner and lunch, nobody does that.
[Frankel:] No but I`m saying if I`m when I was pregnant or even if when I was pregnant I would have cheesecake. But I wouldn`t have it at lunch and dinner. I would have a couple bites and it was over. I mean your diet is a bank account. That`s what I`ve been saying, it`s not that crazy. But I do understand it is annoying.
[Behar:] It`s very annoying to people. Next to Helen Thomas you`re one of the most hated women in America.
[Frankel:] I know but it is a big deal, other people though, have lost weight. I mean even Alex on my show. She said the weight fell off. I didn`t know it would happen. I thought it would be an s show. I thought it would be six months easily because I never been through it before. But it really isn`t that big of a deal.
[Behar:] What if you suddenly got really fat. Would you be in depression? We`d have to get you Zoloft and everything
[Frankel:] I don`t think I would be depressed. I would be concerned. I`d be like I`m a sham. Everything I`ve done is worthless and useless and I`ll burn all my books. But it didn`t happen. Because it is the truth. If your diet really is a bank account. And you just decide how you want to spend in your life based on your lifestyle.
[Behar:] So this skinny frame I`m looking at is all genetics really is what you`re saying, basically?
[Frankel:] I used to be 25 pounds heavier. I was always white knuckling and obsessing.
[Behar:] How much do you way?
[Frankel:] I weigh 123.
[Behar:] No, you don`t.
[Frankel:] Get me a scale.
[Behar:] No you don`t.
[Frankel:] Get me a scale, I do have a little get me a scale
[Behar:] That is not 123.
[Frankel:] Get me a scale
[Behar:] That`s 115 at the most.
[Frankel:] I`ll bet on your show we`re making a bet
[Behar:] I feel like at a carnival. I can guess your weight.
[Frankel:] How much do you want to bet? I`m going to get rich.
[Behar:] Ten dollars.
[Frankel:] All right, get me a scale. Send one of your people out and get me a scale.
[Behar:] All right can someone get a scale for this girl.
[Frankel:] Get me a scale.
[Behar:] Before you leave that chair, we`re putting you on a scale
[Frankel:] One hundred percent. I`m game. You say 113.
[Behar:] One hundred fifteen the most.
[Frankel:] I say 122, 123.
[Behar:] OK and that`s without the earrings.
[Frankel:] Without the earrings.
[Behar:] No earrings allowed.
[Frankel:] I`ll take all the jewelry off.
[Behar:] That ring weighs a pound.
[Frankel:] I`ll take my breastfeeding pads out.
[Behar:] Now you know it`s interesting, you girls have a lot of trouble on housewives. You are always fighting and everything else. But Alex McCord is sticking up for you. Did you know that?
[Frankel:] I heard that. I heard that.
[Behar:] She saying you just won the genetic lottery and that people are just jealous. What do you say to that?
[Frankel:] I think it`s nice Alex stuck up for me and probably lost her baby weight also and she`s a thin girl. And I get why people are annoyed. Like I said. People want to look at people and they want to feel better about themselves. And a lot of people gain a lot of weight while they`re pregnant. They want me to be in it with them.
[Behar:] I gained 26 pounds and I lost it by the time she got her learner`s permit I had lost it. Bethenny, thanks. "BETHENNY GETTING MARRIED" premieres tonight at ten p.m. on BRAVO. But we are going to weigh her later. So stick around for that. Weight loss is something singer and TV host Carnie Wilson has struggled with her whole life after undergoing gastric bypass surgery in 1999, she lost a whamping 150 pounds but gained most of it back during two pregnancies. Wanting to be a positive role model for her daughters, Carnie decided she has had enough and is determined to lead a healthy lifestyle once and before. So with me now is Carnie Wilson. Hi Carnie. I just poured Bethenny. I just raked Bethenny over the coals. And we`re going to weigh her.
[Carnie Wilson, Singer:] That was funny.
[Behar:] You know now, Carnie, you look very good. I`m looking at you here. You look so pretty.
[Wilson:] Thank you.
[Behar:] You have had trouble losing your baby weight. What do you make of Bethenny Frankel?
[Wilson:] You know, I like her first of all. I have to say that I feel like the whole baby weight thing is so blown out of proportion because I think with each woman it`s very individual thing. I think that Bethenny did not have a weight problem before she got pregnant so I feel like that the women that have had a weight problem, they get pregnant, usually they`ll have some trouble taking it off and especially if they go over the top with carbs during pregnancy and will gain weight.
[Behar:] Yes but is it even possible for the average women, I mean according to Bethenny she had lost some of it because she didn`t eat a couple days before the c-section and then afterwards and everything and naturally came off of her. But is it possible for normal woman to lose ten pounds a week unless she`s extremely, extremely obese?
[Wilson:] When you, obviously when you give birth, there`s fluid and lots of fluid and we gain, people gain more and lose more during pregnancy for whatever reason because of their individual body. I know for me that in the first month after I gave birth to Lola, my first child 40 pounds came off me. So I mean, but I had gained 70. So if Bethenny gained 30 all these numbers are driving me crazy, Joy. All I know is all I want to do is live a healthy lifestyle. That`s the goal.
[Behar:] OK, right. OK, now you appeared on Dr. Oz back in February. And I have a clip of that. Let`s look at that for a minute.
[Dr. Oz:] Your weight is 218 pounds. But you probably knew that already.
[Wilson:] That doesn`t surprise me.
[Dr. Oz:] Your waist size is 41 inches. Your blood sugar is 100. So you`re border line diabetic again.
[Wilson:] I`m border line diabetic right now?
[Dr. Oz:] Yes. And of all the things I could have told you today, that`s the one that scares me the most.
[Wilson:] I can`t believe it.
[Behar:] That was a wake-up call for you, wasn`t it? And he also called you morbidly obese. He`s full of compliments, Dr. Oz.
[Wilson:] Yes, that was a wonderful experience.
[Behar:] That was a wake-up call for you. He`s big on tough love.
[Wilson:] Yes, he is it was a wake-up call. There were some things that there was some misinformation given out. I`m not morbidly obese. And I actually wasn`t diabetic. My sugars were high. The great news is since then I`ve taken off 15 pounds since then. And I do have a goal. I do have a goal to lose 20 pounds by the time I walk down the red carpet for my Emmy nomination for "NEWLYWED GAME."
[Behar:] Congratulations, that`s a motivation to look good on the red carpet.
[Wilson:] Thank you, well I mean, and the reason and what I want to bring up is that, you know, there`s diets and this and that and constantly going back and forth and for the past year it has taken me one full year since I`ve given birth to lose this 15 pounds that I have struggled with but I actually lost it the last three months
[Behar:] How.
[Wilson:] Eating fresh diet because didn`t you eat the fresh diet.
[Behar:] No, I did Jenny Craig. I lost 30 pounds on that. Listen, when they deliver the food to you, it`s a lot easier to do than having to making a decision every three hours.
[Wilson:] It`s so great, it`s the best. But let me tell you why I love the fresh diet. The fresh diet I love because it`s not packaged chemicals.
[Behar:] Are you a spokesperson for them? Are you a spokesperson?
[Wilson:] You`re darn right I am. Oh yes.
[Behar:] So this is commercial.
[Wilson:] Oh yes
[Behar:] All right can
[I - Wilson:] No it`s not a commercial. This is the truth. I`m eating it. And it`s fresh. I want brown rice and teen wah, all these great mashed cauliflower, broccoli, all the stuff we should eat that is what I`m eating.
[Behar:] I know you know those diets are great. They work the fresh diet works. Jenny works. They all work until you stop getting it delivered to you and you have to live in the real world. But anyway, Carnie, stay right there. I`m going to add celebrity trainer Jackie Warner and from "BIGGEST LOSERS" to our panel discussion in a minute. And get a scale for Bethenny, she`s dying to get weighed.