Another week on Planet Fame and yet more photos of famous new mums looking impossibly slim. How do they really lose the weight and is it healthy?

The yummy mummies currently in the spotlight include Nicole Richie. Barely a fortnight after giving birth to daughter Harlow, she was snapped looking seriously svelte on her first night out.

With her baby barely able to wriggle its toes, Nicole can't use that old celebrity favourite: 'It was easy, running around after the kids snapped me back into shape.' Liz Hurley used that one, conveniently forgetting her six-month-long brown rice diet!

So thank heavens for Hollywood actress Jennifer Garner, who has been refreshingly up front about her battle with the baby bulge. Like the rest of us mere mortals, she had to commit to a diet. Although she stalled as long as she possibly could!

'It took a long, long time because I just wasn't that motivated,' Jennifer confessed. 'I wanted to play with my daughter Violet. Then I got on the treadmill, stopped stuffing my face and lost the weight. I cut out croissants, bagels and muffins.'

Her approach certainly worked. The actress has never looked slinkier and fitter.

Another well-known lady happy to be honest about pregnancy and the havoc it can wreak on your body is the stunning Milla Jovovich, although heaven knows how she managed to find the time to even conceive daughter Eva Gabo!

This woman is the undisputed queen of multi-tasking. Alongside acting, modelling and singing, she squeezes in a spot of clothes designing too! Perhaps that's why she felt she had to eat plenty during her pregnancy, to keep her energy levels super-charged, and gained five stone.

'I am so huge! It's unbelievable how quickly it all happened,' she reported on her website. 'All I did was eat three bagels every morning with butter, peanut butter and jelly all over them, a few boxes of donuts for lunch, then boom!'

However, Milla then wasted no time getting back into shape. Just eight weeks after the birth in November 2007, she was photographed looking close to her pre-baby weight.

Her secret? 'I've gone completely to the other extreme and am eating nothing but chicken, fish and veggies. More protein and less carbs seem to be working for me,' she explained.

The pressures on new mums in the real world are tough enough, without making us feel like failures because we don't snap back into shape in the blink of an eye. It's essential to lose the weight with a sensible diet. Heidi Klum, Naomi Watts and Victoria Beckham are just three of our star sisters happy to talk about regaining their pre-baby figures in record time.

But they're not so keen to admit to the behind-the-scenes help. Their figures are their fortunes so they will do whatever it takes, including hiring personal nutritionists and trainers.

Do we really believe that Myleene Klass, who gained over four stone, really didn't diet and work out like a banshee at the gym? Snapped at the BAFTAS, she looked whippet-thin. She insists that she slinked back into her pre-pregnancy jeans in a breathtaking three months, thanks to breastfeeding.

'It really helped with the weight loss,' she says. 'I wobble in different places now. But it doesn't bother me because it shows what I've been through.'

With all this diet talk, don't lose sight of the most precious thing of all: your newborn baby. Don't waste the time you two should be enjoying, stressing out over your lumps and bumps.

Keep in mind Davina McCall's mantra. The mum-of-three believes in the 'nine months on and nine months off' rule and her size 10 figure is a shining example of its success.