Former talk show host, Ricki Lake, has dropped from once carrying a whopping 250 pounds to 123 pounds and is posing on the cover of Us Weekly to show off the fruits of her weight-loss labors. Most impressive is probably the fact that she went from a size 24 to a 4 without the use of surgery. From Us:

On crash dieting in 1991: "... I went on this extreme diet. I used to faint because I wasn't eating and I was always exercising."

On the most exciting thing about her new weight:
"For the longest time, when I was very heavy, I couldn't cross my legs. I couldn't physically do it. LOVE that I can cross my legs now ... Even my shoe size is changing. My Jimmy Choos are too big now."

On what she thinks of super-skinny actresses:
"I think I have no wrinkles because I always had fat on my face. Really skinny girls age so fast."

Most recently, Ricki's been working on a documentary entitled, "The Business of Being Born," which is all about home birth and Ricki is even featured giving birth, naked in a tub for the film. Well, good for her and all that jazz. But she is reminding me how much I miss the trashy talk ridiculousness of the mid-to late 90's, back when paternity tests and biker makeovers filled the airwaves as far as the eye could see.

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