Background
Nidetch was born Jean Evelyn Slutsky on October 12, 1923, in Brooklyn, New York, to an American Jewish family of David Slutsky, a cab driver, and Mae Slutsky, a manicurist.
Girls' High School
City College of New York
A former Weight Watchers location in Newton Highlands, Massachusetts
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This cookbook by the Founder of Weight Watchers gives full details of its successful program. It includes a wide variety of the foods you love, cooked in accordance with the Weight Watchers method, and used with well-balanced menus.
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1976
Nidetch was born Jean Evelyn Slutsky on October 12, 1923, in Brooklyn, New York, to an American Jewish family of David Slutsky, a cab driver, and Mae Slutsky, a manicurist.
A graduate of Girls' High School, Nidetch received a partial scholarship to Long Island University but was unable to attend due to a lack of financial resources. Instead, she enrolled in a business course at City College of New York. When her father died in 1942, Nidetch dropped out and started working.
Nidetch's first job was at the Mullin Furniture Company in Jamaica, New York. She later worked for Man O'War Publishing Company and the Internal Revenue Service. An overweight housewife with a self-confessed obsession for eating meat, Nidetch had experimented with numerous fad diets before she followed a regimen prescribed by a diet clinic sponsored by the New York City Board of Health in 1961. After losing 9 kg, and finding her resolve weakening, she contacted several overweight friends and founded a support group which developed into weekly classes, and incorporated on May 15, 1963 into the Weight Watchers organization. In 1978, Weight Watchers was sold to the H. J. Heinz Company. Nidetch, who remained a consultant to the organization, established scholarship programs at the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Nidetch died on April 29, 2015, in Parkland, Florida at the age of 91.
(The founder of Weight Watchers discusses her life and the...)
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1976
Nidetch was married to Mortimer Nidetch; they had two children, David and Richard. Jean and Mortimer divorced in 1971. In 1975, she remarried for several months to a bass player she met on a cruise.