Carnie Wilson

About Carnie Wilson

Carnie Wilson (born April 29, 1968 in Bel Air, California) is an American singer and television host, best known as a member of the early 1990s singing group Wilson Phillips. Then noted as "morbidly obese," she had gastric bypass/bariatric surgery and lost some of her weight. However, in 2008, she has gained most of her weight back again, currently tipping the scale at 230 lbs.

The daughter of American 1960s pop icon Brian Wilson and his first wife Marilyn Rovell, she co-founded Wilson Phillips with her younger sister Wendy and childhood friend Chynna Phillips when they were in their teens. They released two albums, Wilson Phillips and Shadows and Light and had six top 20 singles before breaking up in 1993.

Carnie & Wendy Wilson continued to record together, releasing the Christmas album Hey Santa! in 1993, and they joined with their father for a critically successful (yet commercially unsuccessful) 1997 album, The Wilsons.