Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-03
How One
Young Star
Lost Weight
BY IDA JEAN KAHN

by IDA JEAN MAIN
YOU TEEN age girls who are
fat have been writing 10 tell me
how miserable you are.
You say your school chums
poke fun at you and your family
joke about your weight, that you
cry yourself to sleep many a
night. So / want to tell you
about a girl who weighed las
pounds and took a size 20 dress
at the age of Is and who did
something about IL.
\But don't read this and go on
some rash reducing regime that
will wreck your health and make
you look like a starved kitten.
Go easy with\your slimming.
This girl was an actress and,
young as she was, she knew she
had TO take care of her health
10 keep her looks or TO have the
energy IL takes TO make a sue
cess in this tough old world. So
do you.
She's Susan Miller
Our heroine Is slim. lovely and
talented Susan Miller.
She is singing in New York
hit show now and both the film
and radio people have their eye
on her. But when she was Is.
she was so fat-145 pounds is
lot for a little five-foot girl with
small bones-that one Of the
Hollywood companies gave her
a contract as a Coincidence.
I'D been awfully unhappy
about my weight back home in
Baltimore" Susan told me. but
/ didn't do anything about it.
But when l got out TO the
Coast and saw all those gorgeous
girls with dream figures. could
not bear TO 60 around on the
same lot with them. / made up
my mind 1 was not going 10 be
Tat any longer. ] dior want TO
be a Coincidence enough 10 keep
on being a rolypoly. ] dieted
and exercised and I Skinned
right down"
Here's How
I'll take over from here and
tell you that the diet was very
sensible and that the exercise
program she mapped out for
herself was so hard I wonder
how many of you have the will
power TO follow il. II you have,
you've got what il takes 10 do
just about everything else you
want 10 do.
Susan started out by leaving
off all the between-meal sweets,
sodas and sandwiches.
It's eating between meals
that makes the teen age girl fat
in the first place." Susan said,
emphatically.
She drank her quart OF milk
day and ate an incredible
amount of fruits and vegetables,
with salad once and sometimes
twice day but without dress
ing of any kind.
She had an egg either for
breakfast or lunch. When she
didn't have an egg for lunch she
had lean meat or fish or chicken
and one OF these again for
dinner
She ate whole wheat bread but
limited herself to one slice at a
meal with a thin spread of but
ter. For dessert, she usually
had fresh fruit. Once or twice
week she had a custard or
ice cream.
Her Program
And how she exercised. Il
worked up TO it gradually" she
told me, but until ! got my
measurements down where /
wanted them. this was my pro-
gram: / jumped rope for a full
20 minutes in the morning,
rested a bit, then did 10 minutes
of exercise. After lunch, 1 did
another half hour of special ex-
ercise. OF course. / waited for
an hour after eating before / did
any exercise. +"
She found that the measure
ments went down even faster
than her weight and all the
time she was dieting and exer-
cising she felt lust about a
million per cent better than /
had while l was fat"
is Minutes a Day
She still does Is minutes OF
exercise every day. That's how
she keeps this figure: Bust, "a
inches; hips. 35 inches; waist, "a
inches-'my small waist is my
pride land joy. 1t used TO be
80 inches!" She is Il years old,
5 feet 2iz inches tall and thinks
right eating is the reason she
grew an inch this last year.
There's her, program. 1t is one
you can follow you have the