Jennifer Hudson Weight Watchers Center is opening this week in Chicago, from whence the Academy Award winner hails. Hudson has lost 80 pounds and is a Weight Watchers spokeswoman. Chicago Mayor Rahm
Emanuel is expected to attend the event in the city's Kenwood neighborhood on the South Side.
Weight Watchers says it will donate a portion of the center's revenue to a foundation in
honor of Hudson's late nephew, Julian King. In October 2008, the bodies of Hudson's mother and brother were found in the family's home. King's body was found days later in a vehicle. All three had
been shot.
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