In June 2007, Woman's World prominently featured a diet/weight loss article claiming "Better than Gastric Bypass!" about the Kimkin's diet. The diet's founder (named Kim Drake in the article) claimed to have lost 198 pounds in 11 months and had kept it off for 5 years. I bought the magazine because I wanted to know how this woman managed this amazing success!

After the article there was a flood of new members to the Kimkins.com website which began charging $59.95 (up from $14.95 at the launch of the site) for a lifetime membership in anticipation of the publication of the Woman's World article and the interest in was sure to generate.

Since then there have been many, many discoveries about the fraudulent actions of Heidi K. Diaz, the Kimkins.com owner, including:
1) The photos of Heidi K. Diaz, published in this article, are all fake. They were "lifted" off of Russian dating/marriage sites. The magazine allowed this to happen by not insisting that a photographer employed by the magazine be sent to photograph Ms. Diaz in person.
2) It has been discovered (via private investigator photographs) that Ms. Diaz has not maintained the weight loss she claimed in the Woman's World article. In fact, she is morbidly obese. If a Woman's World journalist or photographer had met with her in person, this deception would never have occurred.
3) Kim Drake is not the Kimkins.com owner's true name, although it was published in this article. It is Heidi K. Diaz. It has been discovered that she goes by many aliases including Vanessa Romero and Brad Johnson, to name a few. Again, had Woman's World done their homework, this probably would not have occurred.
4) The diet's original guidelines are nutritionally bankrupt and can cause hair loss, constipation, heart palpitations, dizziness, and fainting to name just a few side effects. Instead of declining to publish the article, Woman's World instead chose to doctor the diet in their article.
5) Most of the "success stories" published on the Kimkins website have been discovered to be fake and pictures "lifted" off of Russian dating/marriage websites as well. Again, a little bit of investigative journalism on the part of Woman's World would have uncovered these questionable photos/stories.

Woman's World has been made aware of all of these findings many times and has been given plenty of time to print a retraction. They have chosen to ignore it. The fact that they are still trying to pass themselves off as a factual and legitimate publication is laughable, to say the least.


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