Marie Osmond Has Lost 50 Pounds

Marie Osmond has spoken quite frankly about her struggles with weight loss, and her views on the pressure society puts on people. Her weight has gone up and down over the years, including having lost about 50 pounds recently thanks to the Nutrisystem diet.

Osmond has a new book, "Might As Well Laugh About It Now," that details her various views and struggles with weight loss and body image. Although she protests the extreme pressure and judgment put on women for their body, she says she needed to lose weight and regain her physical fitness because "I needed to do it for my kids, but mostly I needed to do it out of self-love. [I] looked at dieting as abusive and controlling but my whole attitude changed to, 'I just want to be healthy.' " See belwo for more from Marie Osmond on how she regained control of her body, on her own terms.

Marie Osmond Has Lost 50 Pounds
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Though she shed 46 pounds in 2007, it took Marie Osmond years of struggling with a negative body image until she decided to fight back. "Our society makes women feel that they should have a body of a skinny little boy," she tells PEOPLE. "We put on five pounds, and we think we're fat ... It's stupid..."

Marie Osmond Has Lost 50 Pounds