EXCLUSIVE: Joanna Krupa On Career, Fitness and Wedding Plans

Joanna Krupa photo credit North American Poker Tour/PokerStars.net.

LimeLife's exclusive interview with Joanna Krupa.

The Web is abuzz with last night's Dancing With the Stars cast announcement, and you know that we too are fans. At the North American Poker Tour in Las Vegas last weekend (thanks PokerStars.net!), we had the chance to chat with former Dancing queen Joanna Krupa, who has exciting updates on her plate now that her dancing days are over.

LimeLife: Joanna, we followed you on Dancing With the Stars. Now that the new season is coming up, you've turned your attention to other projects, like your involvement with PokerStars.net. Plus, you've been in wedding mode! Are you married yet?

Joanna Krupa: No, we're engaged. It's been two years, and I think I'm getting used to it! Everybody asks me, "So when's the date?" I'm just like, (shrugs and laughs) "I don't know!" Plus, he lives in Miami and I live in L.A., so we're doing the bi-coastal back-and-forth until we have a home together. No matter what, we're always going to be traveling for business, but I think until [we're all set up], what's the hurry?!

LimeLife: Good for you. A lot of us saw your fiance on Dancing With the Stars last season...totally head-over-heels for you! What can you tell us about him?

Joanna Krupa: He's a club owner in Miami. The name of his club is Mynt Lounge in South Beach. [Krupa's fiance Romain Zago is said to have given her an eight-carat diamond when he proposed.]

LimeLife: What wedding details have you two planned so far?

Joanna Krupa: (laughs) Oh my gosh, my wedding. If I would have the perfect wedding, it would definitely be in Positano, Italy [a small town on the Amalfi coast]. That's kind of what the plan is. Just very close family members, maybe some close friends. Very small and intimate, probably no press. Obviously we'll take pictures and video and if anybody wants to run it, that's fine. But I just want to keep it more private and enjoy it. It's only once in a girl's lifetime, unless, you know, you're one of those women who gets married multiple times! I'm hoping that's not me. Just something very romantic and beautiful. Italy's so amazing. But we'll see, maybe spontaneously we'll go to Vegas and elope!

LimeLife: What kind of dress are you thinking about?

Joanna Krupa: I'm thinking maybe Vera Wang, you know, those corset-type tops with a long gown. Then you need a sexy one for the reception afterwards.

LimeLife: So the wedding's not totally on the back burner...but girl, you are so busy right now, right?

Joanna Krupa: I'm working on a possible reality show based around my life and different charities I do [the NAPT celeb poker tourney in which Joanna participated raised over $43,000 for Three Square, an organization that feeds the hungry in the Las Vegas area]. It's still too early to talk about it, but that's my focus right now. And then some other TV stuff and modeling and doing a lot of charity stuff.

LimeLife: You're really active with charities, right?

Joanna Krupa: This one tonight for Three Square...it makes me feel good being able to do something good and give back.

LimeLife: So important. Joanna, this entire industry knows how in shape you are. Can you talk about your workout routine?

Joanna Krupa: I'm the type of person, whatever I can do to work out the least amount of time, I will find it. I found this machine a couple years ago called the Power Plate. It basically looks like a scale, and it vibrates, but it works your muscles that much more because of the vibrations -- so basically if you're doing a squat, it's kind of equivalent to doing a ten-minute workout compared to an hour workout at the gym. You really feel the burn, and it's fun. [I do] twenty or thirty minutes a day two or three times a week...I actually was obsessed at the beginning. I did it six times a week, and I got a little too toned. (laughs) It wasn't right.

LimeLife: The new cast of Dancing With the Stars has everybody talking. We love the show! How did you come down after making it so close to the top last season?

Joanna Krupa: I'm telling you, for the first two weeks, I was so lazy. If I didn't have to get out of bed, I definitely did not. I'm slowly trying to get back into my normal routine.

Who needs normal routines when you can make appearances in the glamorous world of poker? Another celeb we spoke with at the North American Poker Tour was...we're still on a high...Donnie Wahlberg! The chat was a dream come true. Then read what actor and comedian Jason Alexander had to say about women's bodies. Love him!