Kris Siegrest, Jordin’s personal trainer and long-time family friend tells Star, “Jordin spent about six weeks, from mid-December to last January, hitting it hard with me. She’s always been a bigger girl, but I wouldn’t say she’s had a problem with her weight. She embraced the person she was and the body that God gave her.�?

Sparks would train in a group with four or five other women 3-4 days a week, with occasional private sessions, says Siegrest, who woks out of Glendale’s Arrowhead Country Club. With Jordin she didn’t have time to “ease into a workout. It was game on from the get-go. And she took it really, really well, most people would vomit!�?

Kris adds: “Jordin’s one-hour workouts typically began at 9:30 a.m. and would burn a minimum of 600 calories.�?

Siegrest estimates that Sparks lost ten pounds under her watch, and that she’s dropped “at least twenty pounds�? and a dress size over the past five months. “When we worked together, Jordin wasn’t allowed to tell me if she had made the Idol cut,�? says Siegrest. “But I could tell she was doing well, because she really stepped up her efforts to get in shape. I see Jordin continuing to lose weight, but I don’t ever see her getting to a waif kind of a figure. And I hope she doesn’t. I think where she’s at now is a pretty healthy weight for her – and she’s absolutely beautiful.�?