CNN's Candy Crowley's New Look Profiled

Candy Crowley, one of CNN's most senior political correspondents, has covered a multitude of stories in her time with the network, and is one of the most trusted and respected reporters within the political circuit.  Recently, Crowley has changed her look, and James Rainey of the LA Times has profiled her, asking her specifically on the details of her new image.  He writes;

When I first contacted her, Crowley wasn’t at all sure she wanted to talk about this. I couldn’t blame her for worrying that all the hoo-ha might distract from what she does best.

With a slight chuckle, she said: “It’s stunning to me that something I consider so separate and apart from what I do for a living has taken up so much space in some people’s thoughts. I am a hard-news journalist. That is what I do.”

But a few days after I first made contact, the veteran of eight presidential campaigns agreed it might be worth talking, a little, about her new incarnation. She wanted to thank the many fans who have been e-mailing to express their admiration. And she wanted to knock down a few myths.

So here it is, straight up and on the record: There has been no Lap-Band. No gastric bypass. No surgery at all. Rather, Crowley said, she has been dieting, swimming and working out, sometimes with a trainer, since last December.

And, in a change she thinks has made the biggest difference, she has taken up Transcendental Meditation. A couple of times a day, Crowley escapes her break-neck schedule to settle into what the TM website describes as a “natural state of restful alertness.”

“I feel great physically. I feel really good,” the newswoman told me Tuesday. “I’m lighter now in a lot of ways.”

Read the full article here.  Link courtesy: Inside Cable News