Aretha Franklin slimmer figure!

Aretha Franklin is getting skinny!

The soul legend stepped out looking slimmer than ever as she watched the New York Knicks and the Orlando Magic at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Dressed smartly in a navy trouser suit with a white T-shirt and pearl necklaces, the 68-year-old looked radiant and healthy as she enjoyed basketball game between from a court level seat.

Aretha’s dramatic weight-loss has sparked rumors that she had undergone gastric bypass or lap band surgery, something which the star herself has denied.

“Definitely not and would not,” she said.

“I heard that [rumor]. I said, ‘That is crazy’.

“But it definitely was not the bariatric or, what is it, gastric by  Yeah, I can’t even tell you the correct name of it.”