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Jennifer Hudson weight loss: Singer drops 5 sizes but admits ‘you’re never going to see me skinny’

Jennifer Hudson has dropped an impressive 5 dress sizes since first appearing on 'American Idol.'
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Jennifer Hudson has dropped an impressive 5 dress sizes since first appearing on ‘American Idol.’
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After slimming down from a size 16 to a size 6, Jennifer Hudson thinks her body is perfect just where it is.

“I don’t want to lose any more weight, and you’re never going to see me skinny,” Hudson, 28, told InStyle Makeover magazine. “I think this is a good, natural size for me.”

But Hudson – who gave birth to her son, David, last August – says she’s pretty pleased with her new figure.

“I’m like, wow! This is what I look like?” she joked.

Hudson dropped the weight by following Weight Watchers – for whom she is a spokeswoman – and hitting the gym five times a week.

“It’s not a diet, it’s really a way of living that teaches you better skills,” she said. “For years I felt like I could never have ice cream, but I can eat ice cream occasionally now!”

And her fiancé, David Otunga, couldn’t be more thrilled when she lets herself splurge.

“David doesn’t like change,” Hudson told Instyle Makeover. “He tells me I have no breasts anymore. He tries to feed me.”

But now that the “Dream Girl” has reached her dream size, Hudson says she’s got a whole new set of issues to deal with.

“I have a serious shopping problem now,” she told the magazine. “Each city we go to, my suitcase won’t hold my new clothes so we have to box them up and ship them home.”

Now that Hudson’s got a new body and a new wardrobe, she’s thinking of getting a new ‘do next.

“I’m actually thinking about shaving my head,” she said. “… Because I feel I’ve got a good structure now. My cousin’s a beautician, and she always tells me, ‘You could wear any hairdo.’ So I’m thinking, ‘What if I shave my hair?’ Not completely off, but low. I think that would be so hot.”