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Jean Evelyn Nidetch (October 12, 1923 – April 29, 2015) was an American businessperson and the founder of Weight Watchers. She died on April 29, 2015, of natural causes at her home in Parkland, Florida , at the age of 91.
Weight Watchers' founder Jean Nidetch was the company's President from 1963–1973. [37] Al Lippert was CEO of Weight Watchers from 1963–1981. [50] From 1978–1999, Weight Watchers was a subsidiary of Heinz. Charles M. Berger was CEO of Weight Watchers from 1982–1994, [201] [202] having previously been its President.
Her third book, This is Big, tells the story of the founder of Weight Watchers, Jean Nidetch, while incorporating anecdotes from her own weight-loss journey. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Her New York Times bestseller Glossy , which is being adapted for TV, [ 6 ] was inspired by Meltzer's Vanity Fair profile of Emily Weiss .
According to Sistani, the mindset of the brand's founder, Jean Nidetch — who famously said that weight loss was a matter of “choice, not chance” — is not what the company stands for today.
Sistani helped push the company into the weight-loss drug space in 2023 through the $106 million acquisition of the telehealth platform Sequence — now called WeightWatchers Clinic, ...
Billie Jean King is trying weight loss medication to address her binge eating disorder (BED), revealing on the April 24 episode of actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s Wiser Than Me podcast that it was ...
Jean Nidetch, a housewife and mother living in Queens, New York City, conceived the original Weight Watchers diet and program in the 1960s, after her dissatisfaction with other weight loss programs, all of which failed except the "Prudent Diet", a diet developed in the 1950s by Dr. Norman Jolliffe, head of the New York City Board of Health's Bureau of Nutrition.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...