Do Celebrities Lie about their Weight?

Do celebrities lie about their weight? The short answer is a resounding yes. We can't really prove it without forcefully getting them on a weight scale but there is no doubt that many celebrities lie about their weight.

Someone made a comment here about Kirstie Alley where we wondered if she was telling the truth about losing 75 pounds and weighing less than 150 pounds. If Kirstie was five feet tall, this would be believable, but she is somewhere between 5'7 and 5'8. If you see her on the Oprah video here, and have a look at her legs, you too would probably doubt she is telling the truth.

Here's what one reader had to say about Kirstie's weight;

Most of your weight is in your legs, and man, she's still got some of those. It's hard to tell though. Some people can weigh very little and some people a lot; it's not all about size. I have a friend who weighs about the same as I do; she's a size 12, i'm a size 6, go figure and we are both about 145 lbs.

If you really want to crack-up on people who lie about their weight, check out Serina Williams, the tennis player, who claims she weighs about 130 lbs. One tennis commentator actually said... "what when she was 13?" Her sister has it right, Venus claims she weighs about 170 lbs.

So we went and checked it out and indeed it does say on Serena Williams profile at the WTA that her height is 5'9" and her weight is 135 pounds.

This really seems unlikely based on the pictures here. These photos were taken last week at the Australian tennis tournament. My guess would be she does not weigh less than 170 here based on her height and especially as she is so muscular. Muscles weigh four times as much as fat does.

I'd lie about my weight too if I was a celebrity. It's not a big deal except that it sets a very bad example for young women who might think they need to weigh a lot less than 135 pounds in order to look very slim.

For this reason I'm hoping people send in more examples of large discrepancies between celebrity stated weight and their true weight.