Look out! Here comes James Packer, all dressed in blue, ready to dance the night away at chic London hotspot Chiltern Firehouse. Only something is different about James. Is it his hair? His facial expression? Has he had work done?
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Not only has James lost weight - a lot of it - but he even seems to have had a bit of a fashion makeover, swapping out his normal attire of sloppy pants and sweatshirts for a sleeker look: A blue, Breton-striped tee, blue jeans and shoes instead of trainers. There he is in an all-white outfit on the deck of his yacht in the Mediterranean. And in a black suit jacket and pants on the streets of New York. He seems to have discovered the slimming effects of a monochrome outfit.
Before you gasp, "Is this just since he started hooking up with Mariah?" I can confirm this indeed is what's happening. It looks like James has had what we in the business call a "boyfriend style-over" which is industry-speak for "dressing differently in order to please your partner and make sure her eye does not a-wander while she's back in Vegas (aka Sin City) performing on stage and you hotfoot it across the globe".
These cases can go either way. Sometimes, if the boyfriend has a particular penchant for fashion, he'll wield it over his girlfriend (note, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel?), but other times, if the woman is particularly engaging and magnetic, the tables turn and the girlfriend uses her styling powers on the male (see also, Shane Warne and Elizabeth Hurley).
To be honest, no matter how he got here, we can all acknowledge that James Packer looks better than he used to. Take a moment to remember the times he'd insist on training in the mornings at Bondi Beach, in nothing but his Speedos.
This is a marked improvement. And it's not an enormously huge shift for him either - popping on a T-shirt rather than a sloppy joe and a pair of jeans instead of trackies hardly takes much effort, and would work for anyone, billionaire or not.
Sure, James has long had a weight struggle - he had gastric bypass surgery in 2009 - but not even this, or his marriages to two models, Jodhi Meares and Erica Packer, nor his alleged dalliance with Aussie supermodel Miranda Kerr could make him drop the kilos. His relationship with Mariah however, seems to have done the trick.
Maybe it's because she's an international superstar who probably has a million guys chasing her. Or he might have finally ditched Scientology and taken up a comprehensive Weight Watchers plan. He could have possibly paid a billion dollars for an Amazonian superplant which allows him to eat sausages and donuts and still lose weight. Or maybe he's found a good place with his business dealings and has made peace with the fact he makes his bucks from gambling and legally thrifting dollars from others.
But long-term weight loss begins in the mind, so let's end this on a nice note and ponder that perhaps it's because James Packer is finally happy with himself. Maybe he's moved on beyond the failed relationships and is finally settled. Wouldn't that be nice?
(Brisbane Times)
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