By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

The Real Housewives of Orange County star Tamra Barney has dropped six pounds in a little over a month with the help of Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stranger! 

And Barney dished to Breaking Celebrity News on her no-starvation spring slim-down.

Barney didn't like what she saw earlier this year when she noticed bikini picture of her splashed across the pages of a magazine during a recent Mexico vacation with boyfriend Eddie Judge.

There was no doubt about it: She was packing on the pounds!

And love apparently was the cause of it all.

"Usually when you are happy in love and comfortable in a relationship, you tend to gain weight, or as I like to call it, love chub," Barney said, adding that she and Judge put on 10 pounds since the start of their relationship.