{"id":4460,"date":"2011-03-14T16:40:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T20:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4460"},"modified":"2011-03-14T16:40:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T20:40:50","slug":"aretha-franklin-i-didnt-have-gastric-bypass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4460","title":{"rendered":"Aretha Franklin: I Didn&#8217;t Have Gastric Bypass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surgery helped <strong>Aretha Franklin<\/strong> lose 85 lbs. \u2013 just not that surgery.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the story the Queen of Soul&#8217;s sticking to as she once again shoots down rumors about her health, this time the theory that she underwent gastric bypass surgery to drop weight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Definitely not \u2013 and would not,&#8221; <strong>Franklin<\/strong>, 68, tells Access Hollywood in a two-part interview to air Monday and Tuesday. &#8220;I heard that [rumor]. I said, &#8216;That is crazy.&#8217; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since undergoing a mysterious surgical procedure in December for reasons she refuses to reveal, <strong>Franklin&#8217;s<\/strong> health and weight loss have been much-buzzed-about topics. In January, she said she was &#8220;not going to even deal with&#8221; rumors that she had pancreatic cancer.<\/p>\n<p>She did, however, offer a small clue about that surgery, saying that the weight came off &#8220;from the surgery that I had,&#8221; although she did not specify the procedure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surgery helped Aretha Franklin lose 85 lbs. \u2013 just not that surgery. That&#8217;s the story the Queen of Soul&#8217;s sticking to as she once again shoots down rumors about her health, this time the theory that she underwent gastric bypass surgery to drop weight. &#8220;Definitely not \u2013 and would not,&#8221; Franklin, 68, tells Access Hollywood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}