“It is true that I am three times the girl I usually am. I have to say there are some really wonderful things that come along with that.  It’s the first time I’ve been to an awards show where they served a meal and I actually ate it – the whole thing. I was eating off everybody else’s plate and that felt very liberating and good,” the 41-year-old expectant mom told an audience at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.

See that look on Bone Crusher’s face? That’s EXACTLY what my face did when I read that homeboy’s releasing a workout DVD called “Battle of the Bulge” on Feb. 12. But then I read why:

“I decided to put together a fitness DVD because there aren’t really any workout DVDs available to people who are significantly overweight, and those are the people who really need a routine that is effective and realistic,” he says.

As you know, Bone Crusher tipped the scales 428 lbs before appearing on Celebrity Fitness Club, where he lost 78. Good for him! I can think of a few folks who need to pick up his joint - Ruben Studdard!

Get healthy in 2008, y’all!

“Right now, Jessica Simpson is not a fan favorite – in this locker room or in Texas Stadium. With everything that has happened, obviously with the way Tony played and the comparison between her and Carrie Underwood (Romo’s ex-girlfriend), I think a lot of people feel she has taken his focus away,” mouth almighty Terrell Owens, about Jessica Simpson’s presence at the Eagles-Dallas game. 

Truth be told, T.O. was at his least stellar that game, too. Let’s just blame it on the girlfriends. 

“Sometimes God has to humble you in order for you to realize who you actually are. When you get away from the glitz and glamour, you can find inner peace within yourself.” — Jailed rapper Foxy Brown to a judge on Monday.

Has Foxy seen the light? Family friend Geoffrey Davis doesn’t think so. He reportedly told the NY Post that homegirl needs therapy.  “If they release her today, she’ll be back in a week..,” Davis told The Post last week. “I love her, and I have her best interests at heart, but I think she needs clinical help with anger management.”

That can’t be good for her defense.

“If Michael makes a mistake and eats fried chicken and French fries in prison every day and comes out at 250 pounds, he’s not going to be able to play football,” Blank said. “How he’s able to keep himself in shape, stay athletically tuned and mentally tuned, I don’t know.” — Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank,  commenting on whether Michael Vick has a future with the team after serving nearly two years in prison.

If Vick were a White player, or Chinese for that matter, would Blank have mentioned fried chicken? I’m just asking. Share your thoughts.

Queen Latifah’s knockin’ down rumors that she’s trying to get hitched to her personal trainer/”girlfriend,” Jeanette Jenkins.  

“Oh my goodness you guys actually believe that. You can’t believe everything you read…there will be no major announcement made. The only major announcement I have to make is “Merry Christmas,” she reportedly told Chicago radio personality Kendra G.  at Power 92.

The “Perfect Holiday” producer shared similar sentiments with the Chicago Sun-Times:  ”When you’re famous these days, it’s just part of the deal — unfortunately. People will make up all sorts of things that are not true. There ain’t gonna be no wedding.”

We pretty much expected this. But didn’t a small part of you want Queen to come out Ellen Degeneres-style and tell America: “Yeah, I’m a lesbian and I’m marrying my girlfriend. So what???” If she’s even gay, that is. Latifah’s done a spectactular job at keeping her fans guessing.

“Usually, the hard women are after me! When I got my divorce, the women jumped on me like white on rice! I said, ‘Look, I ain’t ever did fish, I don’t intend to do fish so leave me alone.’ I said, ‘I’m looking for a man and you’re not a man!’” — R&B diva and “Clash of the Choirs” star Patti Labelle on lesbian admirers, from online gay pubication HX.

“You want to see someone who’s fat? I’m sorry, Tyra, Tyra Banks is fat. This girl is not fat.”  – ex-”America’s Next Top Model” judge Janice Dickinson on “The Today Show,” defending actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, whose “healthy” beach body has been the subject of ridicule recently.

When challenged about her comment, Janice made light of it, but you KNOW she was serious. She’s just hatin’ on Tyra ’cause she’s younger, prettier, and more successful then she’ll ever be! Janice’s face is so tight from all the cosmetic surgery, it must be cuttin’ off the blood circulation to your brain. Tyra, fat? Puh-leeze.

For reference, pics of Jennifer Love Hewitt:

Supermodels always have an ugly duckling story, don’t they? Iman recently told the press that her own father had to bribe a family member to take her to the prom.

From the NY Daily News: “When I had my prom, my father had to pay my own cousin to take me to it,” the Somalian stunner said at the Safe Horizons Benefit Wednesday night. “He had to pay him a lot of money, at least a couple of hundred dollars. No one wanted to take me out…I was an ugly duckling compared to the other girls. The other girls were fatter than me. They like them round in my country!”

Montel Williams is apologizing to the press after threatnening a high school intern/reporter in Savannah, Ga. The longtime talk show host was at a hotel promoting a program that offers free prescriptions to the needy, when he suddenly got pissed at a question posed to him by intern Courtney Scott. (The question was: “Do you think pharmaceutical companies would be discouraged from research and development if their profits were restricted?”) Later on, the Savannah Morning-News reporters returned to the hotel for an unrelated event and Williams approached Scott. From the Associated Press:

“As we were preparing to film, Montel walked up with his bodyguard and got in Courtney Scott’s face pointing his finger telling her ‘Don’t look at me like that. Do you know who I am? I’m a big star, and I can look you up, find where you live and blow you up,’” said Joseph Cosey, a web content producer for the newspaper. “At this time he was randomly pointing at all of us.”

Blow you up, Montell? What are you doing????