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By Christi Hall Dec 2, 2008

Ricki Lake has taken it all off. Now get your mind out of the gutter the former talk show hostess has dropped 140 pounds. She showed off her new figure recently (along with new mom Salma Hayek) and the UK Daily Mail reports the 40-year-old star wore an off-the-shoulder LBD which highlighted her recent weight loss at an event at the Kodak Theatre in California.

Ricki Lake and Salma Hayek Show Off (Image: Wenn)

"I can't believe I was a fat person for most of my life," Lake, 40, recently told People magazine. Earler she revealed to us Magazine on her crash dieting in 1991, "I went on this extreme diet. I used to faint because I wasn’t eating and I was always exercising."

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On the most exciting thing about her new weight: "For the longest time, when I was very heavy, I couldn’t cross my legs. I couldn’t physically do it. LOVE that I can cross my legs now ... Even my shoe size is changing. My Jimmy Choos are too big now."

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On what she thinks of super-skinny actresses, "I think I have no wrinkles because I always had fat on my face. Really skinny girls age so fast." See Ricki before and after photos here along with Salma and even Cameron Diaz.

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