During an event to promote her appearance on The Dr. Oz Show (which airs today), Carnie Wilson said she feels like “throwing up” when Jessica Simpson is called “fat.”

“I think Jessica Simpson looks great, and this is why we have a serious problem,” the Unstapled star, 41, tells me. “[When Jessica gets called 'fat'] it definitely contributes to the problem of weight issues and pressure that women — and now, unfortunately, young girls — feel, the pressure that they have to look a certain way.”

She continues, “When the media follows somebody like Jessica Simpson go up 20 pounds or so, I just say, ‘Welcome to the real world.’ Most women in the country would strive to look like Jessica Simpson at her heaviest weight.”

The Wilson Phillips singer (who wed Rob Bonfiglio in 2000) experienced gastric bypass surgery in 1999, which led to a 150-pound weight loss. But her weight ballooned after she gave birth to Lola, 4, and Luciana, 7 months. She admits she gained 70 pounds during her first pregnancy and 60 pounds during her second. Her starting weight was 170 pounds each time.

“The lowest weight I’ve ever been was 146 pounds, and that was for a very brief time. My comfortable weight that I had maintained for a couple years was around 153 pounds.”

Being thinner changed the way others perceived her – and her perception of herself.

“Ten years ago, it was the miracle of losing all that weight, and I actually accomplished it,” she tells me. “I was so physically different after losing all that weight that the attention was so much on the physical. Obviously, all my comorbidity had disappeared, so I really saved my own life there. I feel like that happened so quickly that the relief was immediate, but then it turned into, ‘God, you look so good; wow, you look so different.’ So I naturally focused on the sensational part of it. But at the same time, it was a drastic difference. I did look really different. I did feel different.”

For Carnie (who won’t reveal her current poundage), visiting Dr. Oz provided a wake-up call.

“When he told me I was pre-diabetic, I was actually in shock because I had just had blood work done,” she says. “I get blood work every six months, and I’m very good at keeping up with that. All my blood work had come back completely normal, and not pre-diabetic. And still, to this day, I am not pre-diabetic. If that’s what he wanted to call me, that’s fine, but I am not pre-diabetic. My glucose levels are within a normal range, and they have been. They were when I was on that show.”

She continues, “The show was very dramatic in the sense that we did speak about important issues, and the fact that he had labeled me morbidly obese really shocked me. If we get medical, if you break it down, if I fall into the category of morbidly obese, that’s pretty shocking; so whether I have 65 pounds to lose, or 55 pounds,or even 45 pounds, if my Body Mass Index tells me there’s too much fat on my body, then that’s what it is. It was shocking, but he was straightforward. I don’t think anybody would handle that easily. It was a real kick in the behind.”

Getting alone time with Dr. Oz is something she holds dear.

“Dr. Oz is one of the sweetest people I’ve ever met. When he walked into the dressing room backstage, before the show, he took me and grabbed me and pulled me to him; he hugged me and kissed me and said, ‘We’re going to change people’s lives by doing this,’ ” she reveals. “Nobody has ever done that in that manner before. I respect him tremendously. He told me some news that I didn’t want to hear, but I’m really grateful he did it, and I know he’s right. I also appreciate that he didn’t put me on a pedestal for being in the public eye, and that he sees me like any other person and it’s not Hollywood s***. It’s about ‘I need to live a long and happy life,’ and that’s what that man is trying to get across. I’m very lucky to have him help me.”

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Carnie Wilson has famously struggled with her weight. Once almost 300 pounds, the 5-foot-3 star had gastric bypass surgery in 1999 and then a tummy tuck in 2002 to remove excess skin after the weight-loss procedure. But the June 12 arrival of Luciana Bella, her second daughter with her husband, musician Rob Bonfiglio, was more than worth the 60 pounds Carnie packed on while expecting. “People gain weight when they have a baby, and someone like me, I gain more weight than I want to,” she told Life & Style during an interview in her Tarzana, Calif., home on July 1. “I’m not hiding that. I’m not ashamed of that.” Instead, she’s reveling in family time with Rob, their 4-year-old daughter, Lola Sofia, and the couple’s new 6-pound, 5-ounce bundle of joy, affectionately nicknamed Luci. “She’s just a few weeks old but a very good baby,” reveals Carnie, 41.

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Although Carnie’s eager to get back to her hosting gig by early September, she’s enjoying this bonding period with Luci. “Rob can help change diapers and help with some bottle- feedings, but he’s kind of leaving it up to me,” says the singer. “For the first month, it really is ‘mommy time,’ and Rob lies low. After that, the baby’s not as fragile.” While Carnie herself was fragile after Lola’s birth, suffering from post-partum depression, she’s experiencing less anxiety with her second newborn because she knows what to expect now. “If the baby cries, she’s either hungry or has gas or a wet diaper, and that’s it,” she says. “It changes every month, and I just know that so far it’s been a lot easier on my mind.”

The only hurdle left for Carnie is fitting back into her size 8 jeans. Breast- feeding every three to four hours and drinking more than 2 liters of water a day have helped her drop 25 pounds already, but Carnie says she has 35 more to go. “Now I think I’m reaching a point where it’s slowed down and the hard work is going to come in,” she says. “My goal is to be somewhere between 150 and 160 pounds.”

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Life & Style has learned exclusively that Carnie Wilson delivered a healthy baby girl named Luciana Bella, at 5:07 PM on Friday, June 12 at LA’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Both mother and baby are doing well and are expected to go home tomorrow, an insider tells Life & Style. Luciana, who weighed 6 pounds, 5 ounces and was 19 inches long at birth, is the second child for Carnie and her husband, musician Rob Bonfiglio. The couple also have another daughter, Lola Sofia, 4. Congrats to the happy family!

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Carnie Wilson and her hubby, musician Rob Bonfiglio, are eagerly awaiting their next gift from the stork: a little girl, expected in June, whom the couple have already named Luciana. But no one in the house is more excited than Luciana’s soon-to-be big sister, 3-year-old Lola! “She’s really, really thrilled,” Carnie, 40, told Life & Style during a recent visit to the family’s home in Tarzana, Calif. Lola even moved down the hall to a bigger bedroom so Carnie could get the nursery ready for Luciana. “I wanted soft colors and a soft palette, so it’s a lot of cream with subtle accents of pink,” Carnie raves.

Carnie’s also looking ahead to how she’ll lose the baby weight after the birth. “I’ve put on 38 pounds,” she tells Life & Style. “I had originally wanted to gain only 25 to 30 pounds, but that didn’t happen — and I’m not beating myself up for it. I don’t want to be neurotic; I want to celebrate the pregnancy.” For now, she’s been adding an extra 200 to 300 calories a day to her diet in the form of snacks like rice cakes with peanut butter and raspberry bars from Whole Foods Market. “I’m not eating whatever I want,” she explains, “but I’ll have a little bit of everything.”

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Carnie Wilson and her husband, musician Rob Bonfiglio, are expecting their second child, according to Entertainment Tonight.

The 40-year-old former Wilson Phillips singer — who welcomed a baby girl, Lola, in 2005 — made headlines in 1999 after undergoing gastric-bypass surgery and dropping 150 lbs. (from nearly 300). The 5′3″ star also dropped almost 20 dress sizes.

In March, she slammed the National Enquirer for claiming that she has gained 79 pounds and planned to have another gastric bypass.

“It is very hard being in the public eye, being scrutinized for every pound,” she told Diane Sawyer. “They’re saying I’m going to have liposuction, another gastric bypass to have a baby. It’s laughable.”

Her weight, she said, “will always be a battle — surgery or no surgery.

“I am committed to my daughter. I want to be a light of hope for her,” she added. “[I'm not saying] you need to be a size 6 … you need to be healthy. That is the message I want to give to her.”

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Carnie Wilson has found a novel way of losing weight – cooking for her reality TV pals.

The Wilson Phillips star was asked by actress pal Maureen McCormick to help her run a Tennessee inn as part of an upcoming U.S. reality TV show.

Wilson spent a month with McCormick and R&B star Bobby Brown on the show, Outsiders Inn – and she was so busy cooking Southern treats for the cast and crew, she didn’t have time to sit and eat with them.

The singer, who underwent a gastric bypass in 2000 and faces a constant battle with her weight, says, “I just wanted to feed people. I got to cook every day, and that brings me a lot of comfort. I’ve been really changing how I eat. It’s great. I cooked really fattening food on the show but I lost 11 pounds while we did it. I cooked for everybody on the set every day. I’d wake up early and bake and then I wouldn’t be eating the food. I would eat and spit, taste and spit. Then I made my tofu. We were cooking healthy. I was doing a bunch of dishes at the same time. I made my vegetables.”

The weight she lost was transferred to the inn’s entertainment director Brown Bobby, who spent the shoot eating up Wilson’s just fried catfish.

He says, “I gained 12 pounds on this show.”

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