Candy Crowley: Would I Have Gotten 'State Of The Union' If I Didn't Lose Weight?

Candy Crowley lost a significant amount of weight in 2009 (she won't say how much), and in 2010 she was named the anchor of CNN's Sunday morning program, "State of the Union."

Coincidence? Crowley says she isn't sure.

"Would I have gotten the job without having lost the weight? I don't know. That's an X factor," she told TVNewser's Gail Shister. "Does the refrigerator light stay on when you close the door? We'll never know."

Crowley also said that the "young, blonde thin" woman cable news anchor prototype is changing.

"I readily admit I'm not the most obvious pick, from a purely cosmetic point of view," she told Shister. "I'm not going to argue that when you turn on the TV, you basically get young, blonde, thin women. This is changing."

Crowley opened up to the Los Angeles Times about her weight loss in November, which she says she achieved largely by taking up transcendental meditation.

"I feel great physically. I feel really good," she said then. "I'm lighter now in a lot of ways."

Crowley's first guest on "State of the Union" will be Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.