• The New York Times, Monday, December 19, 2011 9:44 AM

Jenny (formerly Jenny Craig), Nutrisystem and Weight Watchers, are tapping singers Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson and Jennifer Hudson to show their newly slender bodies to entice people to lose weight. Jackson will tout the Nutrisystem's  “Success” program; Jenny brings in Maria Carey and Weight Watchers puts Jennifer Hudson in the spotlight.

Jenny has Carey showing of her body shed of 30 post-pregnancy pounds and to be the public face of a new effort to raise awareness of the health consequences of overeating.

Nutrisystem and Jackson are creating Nutribank to distribute meals to the hungry, beginning with $10 million in company food contributions for 2012.  Hudson continues as Weight Watchers International’s spokeswoman, introducing its “Believe Because It Works” campaign on Dec. 22. The basketball great Charles Barkley will begin the brand’s effort to target pudgy men the day after Christmas.

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