Elizabeth Edwards and the South Beach Diet

Filed under: Celebrity,South Beach Diet — @ July 12, 2004

In an article spotlighting John Edwards’ wife Elizabeth Edwards, USA Today reporter Jill Lawrence notes that Mrs. Edwards has at least tried the South Beach Diet. However, she quickly found out that the campaign trail is no place for a diet:

bq. “I’m like every person who would like to lose a few pounds,” Edwards said in an interview Saturday as she rode the few miles from a huge welcome-back rally here to her spacious, wooded home, where a CBS crew from 60 Minutes was waiting. “Every night, you know, I’m going to be on that diet [South Beach Diet] tomorrow. And sometimes I am, and sometimes, particularly in the campaign, it’s really hard. They feed you constantly.”

John Edwards is John Kerry’s running mate and the likely Democratic VP nominee.