Basketball Wives: LA’s Laura Govan Explains How She Lost 85 Pounds
One of the most apparent things about the second season of Basketball Wives spin-off Basketball Wives: LA is the drastic weight loss of secondary cast member (who’s now being pushed to the forefront a little more) Laura Govan.
Govan is the on-off fiancée of Memphis Grizzlies player Gilbert Jay Arenas, Jr., with whom she’s been for 12 years, and mother to four minor children. After the birth of whom she weighed 225 pounds at her heaviest.
Before she became a mother, she recalls, “ I was 117 pounds, I was tiny.” However, with the birth of her first daughter six years ago, she gained 100 pounds. After which, she explains, “This is who I’ve always known… I’ve only known the 225-pound pregnant Laura for five years.”
Asked where the weight came from, she admits: “It definitely came from eating. I was averaging about two cakes a week.”
And it spiraled from there: “I was 224 pounds with my fourth baby… I [even] had weight in my ears, I was chubby in the lobes and I said ‘I can’t do this anymore.’ I started working out. I had to change my mind. You just have to really not be lazy and stay dedicated.”
She decided to make a change. Starting with photos of herself, at her heaviest, plastered around the house as a motivator: “I took photos of me at 224 pounds, I placed them in my pantry because I’m a snacker, in my car, on my phone, in the refrigerator, on my phone, on the stove. I had to remind myself that this is where I was and this is where I want to be. I worked my a** off.” Whenever she could find the time: “The difficult part was the timing, I didn’t have much time. I had to figure out when and where I could work out: in the morning before they [my kids] got up and at night when they went down… and in between I’d work out with them at soccer practice. I was running up and down the court.”
Included is Govan’s interview with Celebuzz.com and photos from before and after the weight loss.
