Personal Life
During and since Australian Idol, DeAraugo has had a very public battle with her weight. After one particular Idol performance, judge Kyle Sandilands controversially said that he thought she had "tuckshop lady arms", a comment that generated support for DeAraugo as the public thought that she had been publicly humiliated by Sandilands.
In early January 2008, it was revealed that DeAraugo had signed an endorsement deal with weight-loss giant Jenny Craig. She became the star of the company's "Get Real" national program, stating that her aim was to achieve and manage her own goal weight and help promote healthiness among Australia's younger generation. On 11 August, DeAraugo appeared on radio show 2Day FM and announced that she had been forced to withdraw from her endorsement deal with Jenny Craig due to health problems. She stated that she had discovered she was lactose intolerant and was therefore unable to keep to the required diet.
In November 2011, DeAraugo revealed that she had underwent full-body liposuction after winning Australian Idol, and is currently featured on the Nine Network weight loss reality show Excess Baggage.
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