Annie Wilson's lapband what happened?

[StephC 0]

wow - Heart... I saw Heart at the tangerine bowl in Orlando in 1981-82 - somewhere in there - I was 110 lbs back then, thats about half my weight now. Seeing those pics in this thread just brought back alot of memories.

I think there are alot more famous people who have it done that we don't know about - like Star Jones - she insisted she didn't have bypass but never fessed up to the band.

[piercedqt78 658]

Here is a picture of Ann Wilson at a concert in Chicago taken last night....It looks like she has gained all of her weight back. ~Mandy

[toniteach 0]

Wow...Ann looks beautiful despite the weight gain! Thanks for the pic! And how ironic....I'm sitting here listening to XM radio and "Even It Up" just came on!

Happy 4th of July!

Toni

[tztmama 0]

Yeah I heard the same thing........that Ann had her band removed and gained all her weight back.

Did the younger Judd (is it Naomi or Wynona?) have surgery. I saw her on Oprah a while back and she stated that she really wanted to lose weight but just couldn't seem to do it. I thought then that she would be a good band candidate.

Ann is still beautiful thouh, isn't she???? Hope her health is ok.

[Serena 0]

Heart is in my city today, July 4, doing a free concert at a July 4 celebration. My back problems are in full force so I cannot go. It's killing me (missing Heart, that is)!! I absolutely love them. They blazed the trail for women in rock.

[piercedqt78 658]

Serena, where are you? They were in Chicago last night at Ribfest. ~Mandy

[Serena 0]

I'm in Cincinnati. Heart is performing in Blue Ash, a northern suburb with apparently a pretty big budget for entertainment! Did you see the VH-1 Rock Honors concert in May? Heart was one of the inductees and they did 2 songs. I think I'll go see if it's still available for replay. I'll close my eyes and pretend I'm there--in air conditioning instead of the 91-degrees of the outdoor venue!

[tabruns 0]

Hi folks,

I found this thread very interesting. I'm a big fan of Heart, and a little while ago another fan asked this same question on the message board of the Heart website. That post is no longer there (the administrators "clean" the message board regularly), but the response from one of the message board administrators was that Ann hasn't had the band removed but she also is not having it adjusted.....that the "apparatus broke" awhile back, and that Ann "no longer considers it a priority in her life". There was no commentary about complications (reflux, vocal) from the band and no commentary directly from Ann herself.

[tabruns 0]

BTW I think she looks good in that picture where she's playing the flute. I saw Heart during their Brigade tour (1990 or so) and from recollection she was bigger then than she is now.

[Band Chick 3]

Someone was asking if there were other "celebs" that have the band...

A bandster friend recommended Khaliah Ali's (the boxer's daughter) book Fighting Weight: How I Achieved Healthy Weight Loss with "Banding," a New Procedure That Eliminates Hunger--Forever

[k2k07 0]

Great Book! I read it in 1 day...

[fabfatgrl 10]

I agree. It was a good book, although some of the info on other operations was out of date. (Seem to remember bits on DS being out of date.) My library had a gazillion copies--so I just borrowed one. One thing that ANNOYED me was how the writer used the term Water instead of saline for fills. For some reason, that really bothered me... as I found it misleading.