I’m telling you, Giuliana Rancic learned some excellent PR skills from working at E! The woman is tirelessly promoting her new memoir and she’s hustling to get out there as her role at E! is (presumably) being phased out. Throughout Giuliana’s press tour, she’s answered questions about her very low body weight with deflection and denial. She’s said that the anti-cancer medication she takes has weight loss as a side effect, and she’s said that childhood scoliosis is to blame for her bones sticking out. Giuliana has also said that she hopes to gain weight and has tried, which many people find hard to believe given her history of saying that she would prefer to stay thin.

In a new appearance on Dr. Oz, Giuliana addresses the controversy yet again by stating that she consulted a personal trainer about her thinness. (Why not a nutritionist?) The trainer told her to lift weight to get defined, so she did that and nothing happened.

Sitting down to chat with Dr. Mehmet Oz for the April 8 episode of his self-titled show, the Fashion Police host said she doesn’t like the way she looks when she’s too skinny.

“Trust me, I don’t want to lose weight. I don’t think it looks attractive,” she told Dr. Oz of the constant chatter about her thin frame. “I think I used to be more attractive. But I’m doing the best I can.”

The Going Off Script author, 40, even consulted her physician, who offered a surprising suggestion.

“I actually recently spoke to a personal trainer because my doctor said, ‘Maybe you should get in the gym.’ And I’m thinking, ‘Get in the gym? I don’t want to lose weight! Don’t you usually go the gym to lose the weight?’” she recalled. “And he said, ‘No, no, no, you should — just don’t do cardio. Do some weight training.’”

Rancic followed his advice. “So there I am, lifting my little 10-pound weights,” she told Dr. Oz. “I’m just trying to get some more definition, because I want a little bit of curve, I want to be sexy. And right now, it’s killing me to look in the mirror and see that I’ve just lost all [of it]. I’m just not the girl I used to be.”

[From US Magazine]

What kind of doctor tells a very thin patient to hit the gym? I guess an LA doctor that Giuliana Rancic would use, so I just answered my own question. Plus, ten pound weights are not “little”. Ten pound weights are my “work to failure” weights for some exercises, they’re hard for a lot of people/women, especially with moves targeting the shoulders and triceps. Maybe I’m not working hard enough though.

I can’t discuss her weight anymore, it’s a rinse and repeat situation with the things she says. As we covered Monday, she did say outright on The Today Show that she did “not have an eating disorder,” has “never had an eating disorder” and does “eat a lot.”

In related news, Kelly Osbourne recently tweeted the somewhat ominous message that “Liars ALWAYS get caught!” US assumes it’s about Giuliana’s explanation of the Zendaya hair debacle on Fashion Police, which Kelly freaked out about and quit over.

Also, Radar has some details from Giuliana’s memoir about how things have been rough between Giuliana and her husband, Bill. Despite appearances, Bill wasn’t on board with doing their Style Network reality show. She wrote that the show “was a major bone of contention between us, and we argued about it constantly.” The two would fake getting along once the cameras arrived. Also, Giuliana lied about her age to Bill when they first met, claiming that she was two years younger, and she once tried to get him Botox as a birthday gift, which he did not appreciate. These two are pretty skilled at keeping up appearances, but that’s their job. Now Giuliana is letting it all hang out. This would have a whiff of desperation if it didn’t seem like a carefully planned move in her career.

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