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Grauso's body was reeling from two years of in vitro fertilization treatments, a strenuous social schedule, and eating habits that would make any nutritionist cluck. But here she is, nearly two years of hard work later, in Manhattan's Mercer Hotel in SoHo one morning, having shed almost 60 pounds, with what's left of her five-foot-eight-and-a-half-inch frame in a short Louis Vuitton kilt and black top. Her peaches-and-cream skin radiates health. While passionately discussing kickboxing and her master-of-fine-arts classes at Parsons, she nibbles berry-topped Irish oatmeal. (Gone are discount tiffany accessories the days of a puffy Starbucks muffin.)

"I had to do something," Grauso says. "I had to get back to what I was."The answer for her was internist Louis Aronne, director of the Comprehensive Weight Control Program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, recommended by Grauso's longtime dermatologist, Patricia Wexler. "I told Dr. Aronne I was an athlete and a model. Now I'm just a big red blob," says Grauso.Back when Grauso was modeling, she weighed 129 pounds. Her body was toned from a tomboy childhood in Morristown, New Jersey, where she ran on track teams year-round and played tennis and golf. Such constant activity kept her family of nine's Irish diet of meat and potatoes from sticking. "She was a twig," says sister Julie Fox. Anyway, discount tiffany bracelets if an extra pound popped up, Grauso knew what to do: simply stop eating.

"I went on the starvation diet. I was tall and skinny, and it worked for me for discount tiffany pendants a long time, until I had a baby," says Grauso, who wed Mario Grauso in 1992, now president of Vera Wang Group. While pregnant with son Harry in 1996, she packed on 80 pounds, but afterward, skipping meals still did the trick. "I didn't get to the weight I was before," she says, guessing she floated around 140 pounds, "but I was still in my size-8 dresses, so I felt okay. Plus, there was no time to think about how I looked."