Rocker Courtney Love is finally speaking out about her dramatic weight loss. Love squashed rumors of weight loss surgery by announcing on HBO that she went on a strict diet in order to fit into a pair of designer jeans.

Over the past several days numerous gossip magazines and entertainment news programs have speculated that the singer underwent weight loss surgery or liposuction to achieve the 52 pound weight loss. According to reports in People magazine Love made a New Year’s resolution to lose enough weight to squeeze into a pair of Todd Lynn jeans straight off the runway.

Love insists that she lost the weight by exercising and eating a 1,200 calorie per day diet. She stressed that it would have been impossible for her to undergo gastric bypass surgery as she would have had to have been 100 pounds overweight to even qualify for the procedure. Love reportedly weighed just over 180 pounds at her heaviest.