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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=97 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B><IMG SRC="a854e6b0.jpg" border=0 width="78" height="107" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>MENU</B></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ricki Online"><U><B>What's New?</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id8.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Transcripts"><U><B>Transcripts</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Biography"><U><B>Biography</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Filmography"><U><B>Filmography</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id9.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Image Gallery"><U><B>Photo Gallery</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Ricki Lake Image Index"><U><B>Ricki Lake Show Image Archives</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ricki Online"><U><B>Ricki Reviews</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="TV Schedule"><U><B>TV Schedule</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About the Site"><U><B>About Ricki Online</B></U></A><A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About the Site"><U><B> Site</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id10.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Quiz"><U><B>Quiz</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id5.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U><B>Links</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id7.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright Terms of Use"><U><B>Terms of Use</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.rickiworld.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.rickiworld.com/"><U><B>Ricki World</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>  </div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="1" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="654" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#FFFFFF" BORDERCOLORDARK="#FFFFFF" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 475 WIDTH="525"><div> RICKI</div> <div> LAKE</div> <bR> <div> TALK-SHOW host Ricki is half the woman she used to be - literally.</div> <div>      During the making of the 1988 movie Hairspray, she reached her all-time high, a girth shattering 255 pounds.</div> <div>      But in less than 8 months she lost an amazing 125 pounds and reached her fighting weight of 130.</div> <div>      "When I look at old movies and TV shows I did as an obese person, I cringe," Ricki, 31, confides. "I can't belive it's me!"</div> <div>      And she says it was simple, once she put her mind to losing weight. </div> <div>      "Anyone who's heavy knows what she has to do," says Ricki, "Stop overeating, eat healthy foods and start exercising, "I was eating all the wrong foods, all the time."</div> <div>      Desperate to trim down, the 5-foot-3 star cut out junk food and carefully planned each day's low-cal menu.  Then she taped it to the fridge each morning as a remidner.</div> <div>      Surprisingly, Ricki didn't feel deprived. She found that eating lots of low-fat chicken salad, pasta, fruit and steamed veggies filled her up - but not out.  "Once I weighed under 150, I started to li ke myself better," says Ricki. "I'll never be a size 24 again."</div> <bR> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="0f07b960.jpg" border=0 width="123" height="150" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0f1862b0.jpg" border=0 width="134" height="299" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>