Earlier this year, comedienne and co-host on ‘The View‘ Sherri Shepherd announced that she had become engaged to writer Lamar Sally. Her engagement came months after an appearance on “Face-Off,” an ABC Nightline special featuring a panel of black men, including actor Hill Harper, in which she discussed her prior marriage and divorce, as well as the hardships she faced as a black woman seeking a husband.

Shepherd has also talked openly about her struggles with her weight on ‘The View,’ so perhaps it comes as no surprise that she lied about her waist size while shopping for her wedding dress.

Recently, when picking out her Rivini wedding dress, Shepherd says she gave the designer “my fantasy size,” and that she has now started the South Beach Diet so she can fit into it.

“I still have this fantasy that I’m going to be a size two. I’m hesitant to give everybody my real size,” Shepherd told PopEater while flashing her 3-carat princess-cut diamond-and-platinum engagement ring earlier this year.

In 2009, she was motivated to lose weight because of her son. “My mom passed away at 41 from diabetic complications – I want to be here for my son,” Shepherd told Chris Cuomo on Good Morning America.’ After hard work exercising and dieting, Shepherd debuted her bikini body on ‘The View.’ Since then, though, she has gained back the weight she lost and more.

“Elisabeth [Hasselbeck] told me to tell the truth, but I lied,” said Shepherd. “So I’m going to the gym and starting Zumba tomorrow.”

She’s also practicing a choreographed dance to a Chris Brown song for the reception, and awaiting co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s robot dancing solo. “Elisabeth has a robot solo. She does a very sexy robot, so I cannot wait to get that going!”

Shepherd’s six-year-old son Jeffrey will be walking his mom down the aisle to help calm her nerves. “Yes, I’m very nervous. It’s the second time – I want to do it right!”

Celebrity Weight Loss In 2005, singer Faith Evans lost 60 pounds the old-fashioned way: diet and exercise!

She told People Magazine, “I never saw myself doing push-ups, but now I’ll do 50 by the side of the stage. It feels good to know I can do it.”

Her confidence looks good on her!