Obituary: Jean Nidetch, the fat housewife who made slimming big

03 May 2015 - 02:05
By The Daily Telegraph

Jean Nidetch, who has died aged 91, was a New York housewife who turned her weight problem into a multimillion-dollar business as the founder of Weight Watchers. She described herself as an "FFH" - Formerly Fat Housewife - and had tried every fad diet there was. But whatever weight she lost she soon piled back on - with interest - after secretly gorging on the stash of chocolate marshmallow cookies she kept hidden in a laundry basket.

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