I am anxious about interviewing Jann ArdenCshes printed and said so greatly to the community and plead already. Will we be able to wrapping new ground?

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Jann Arden is chatting to active on the telephone from her home in Calgary, powerful me about her life as a teenager, smoking menthol cigarettes, drinking fries, having acne, and receiving the occasional peek at, uh, small wieners. She doesnt mean tofu hotdogs. copyright dedecms

Shes not only smart and jest, shes surprisingly bold and brusque for a luminary. But if youve listened to her songs or read her books or web-based journal postings, you know she is not terrified to say whatevers on her object. In verity, she will address on subjects that most people, never object celebrities, would think off confines. For request, in her book, Ill Tell You One Damn Thing, and Thats All I Know! (disturbed pressure, 2004), a journal account reads, My spot is a riot this month. I just sneezed and blew my tampon middle outexcuse me while I fix myself upoh, the fun of maturity. ֯�κã���֯��

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It’s also one of the many reasons why people are drawn to Arden. Not afraid to speak her mind on delicate or controversial subjects, she always tells it like it is. She describes her philosophy in the introduction to her second book, If I Knew, Don’t You Think I’d Tell You? (Insomniac, 2002).

“In the last few years, my diaries, my journals, have leapt off of their bits of paper and into cyberspace. When we started my website, jannarden.com, I wanted it to be somewhat interactive. I wanted there to be a reason for people to log on everyday. Something that made them want to know what was going on in my world. I thought to myself, ‘my journal…that’s it!’ I wasn’t the least bit wary about doing it either…I figure there are not many things that I get up to that I couldn’t write down. ֯�����ݹ���ϵͳ

“I don’t need to censor myself at this point in my career. I just write like no one is reading. I sing like no one is listening. I have found that to be the most gracious way of being accurate about anything I do. I have to be honest with someone; it might as well be me.” ��������dedecms

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Today on the phone from her home in Calgary, she is no different. Arden recently graced the cover of Chatelaine, revealing her weight loss of more than 50 pounds. She assures me that “it was an organic process,” during which she told herself, “I’m just going to make changes,” rather than “I want to lose weight.” copyright dedecms

For Arden, it was all about making small changes. For 20 years she’d been eating “once a day.” While she has always been active, she “jumped up cardio a bit,” and “started eating breakfast.” This led to having small meals and snacks throughout the day–she laughs as she tells me she’s carrying around healthy little snacks like “cheese sticks in my stupid purse now. It’s so easy.” She sounds like she can’t believe she’s talking about herself: it still seems new, this life of snacking and eating “a lot more food.”

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Arden tells me she’s now also taking 2,000 mg of nonflushing niacin and 2,000 mg of omega-3 to keep her energy levels high while losing weight. She has done all of this, remarkably, without a trainer or diet books. She used common sense. Huh. ��������dedecms

Although she says she “jogs at the speed of a turtle,” she keeps at it. “Change is possible,” she says. Most importantly, she is “gentle with my soul. I don’t punish myself.” ��������֯��

I pause and listen to this woman who is unlike anyone I’ve ever talked with, especially a celebrity. She is what we all strive to be–good to ourselves, taking care of what’s important to us. ��������֯��

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“No one’s more surprised than me,” she admits, when she considers her life as a celebrity and award-winning singer-songwriter. ��������dedecms