Valerie is the New Jenny Craig Poster Child

Here's a before & after for you!

Granted, there's more than 30 years, a kid and a certified rockstar marriage between photos, but what a difference! 

And, Jenny Craig is banking on her get it back together again just the way Kirstie Alley did.  Alley reportedly lost 75lbs... but I'd like to know her actual body-composition.

Valerie is certainly making the rounds with the media letting them know how fat she is and her plan to "take it off."

She was featured on "The View," "Rachael Ray" and "Larry King Live" and on the cover of People during the first week of the campaign.

Now this is some serious marketing.  If you remember from my blog last year, I wrote about Nestle buying Jenny Craig and how they were sinking some big bucks into the weight-loss market. After all, selling pre-packaged foods is something they know how to do.  

They've even created written and video blogs for her ... so now you can keep up with her progress. 

I think it would be really cool if techno-savvy trainers, studios or clubs could create something like this on a more local level.  Real people doing it the right way and recording it via videos / journals etc.... instead of a former sitcom star eating a bunch of pre-packaged foods.

.... just a thought.