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ARETHA DENIES GASTRIC BYPASS RUMORS!

Aretha Franklin told Wendy Williams that she lost a lot of weight by walking and changing her eating habits.  But, a lot people are thinking that she did something more dramatic – like, maybe having a gastric bypass operation. Last night on  Access Hollywood, correspondent Shaun Robinson asked the Queen of Soul point blank:  “Aretha, really, so you have not had gastric bypass surgery?”  The legendary singer replied:  “Definitely not…and would not. And would not.”

Aretha confessed that her dramatic weight loss was, in fact, due to surgery, but she said,  “It definitely was not the bariatric or what is it?  Gastric by, yeah, I can’t even tell you the correct name of it!”

But Miss Franklin continues to keep details about her operation private.  She told Access Hollywood: “It’s really not necessary…to talk about one’s personal medical [on goings]….(But) the doctor did say to me, he said, ‘Mrs. Franklin, you are going to feel better than you have felt maybe in 10 or 15 years…and the surgery that you had is going to add 15 years to your life.’”