BIG girl They need to cover her up. I'm also amazed at her face. Of course, it's lit really, really well, but I suspect they used those tape things that give you an instant facelift.

Yeah, okay okay - meow. ]]>

Well, Oxygen Facials DO plump up your face but.... ]]>

TV Guide.com

Pier 1 Imports has dumped Kirstie Alley like yesterday's wicker. As part of its new marketing campaign, the home-furnishing chain has tapped Queer Eye for the Straight Guy's design guru, Thom Filicia, as its new spokesperson. National TV spots featuring Filicia will begin airing today.]]>

Did anyone see her on the cover of that mag (US?) She's 270 pounds! My God, what happened to her? I feel bad for her; she looks horrible!

I watched her a week or so ago on some made for tv movie, the character she played scared the bejeezus out of me. I read somewhere that John Travolta is trying to help her, through Scientology of course.

Zion, I saw that movie, too. She really did a good job as playing that evil person. What a wacko character.

Can anyone post a picture?

Photo of her in general, or from whatever the TV movie role was?? What was the name of the TV movie anyway??

The tv movie was "Family Sins" . It aired a couple of weeks ago on CBS Sunday.

"Family Sins"

Kirstie pic

She's on the cover of Star, not US. My bad. Check it out when you pass a newsstand.

Thanks for the pic. She doesn't look 300 pounds. Her neck looks like it's aging though.

I think this is what everyone is talking about these days.

I feel bad for her, everyone poking fun of her weight all the time.

I second that emotion princess!

It's all very well to lambast someone for their weight in this age of an emaciated-obsessed media but there's no way she can lose weight until she addresses whatever it is that makes her unhappy enough to find comfort in food. I wish her all the best...

Me too, I cannot stand the way the media treats obesity. It's not a fun thing to deal with and it's hard as hell to overcome. I have seen my sister struggle with this most of her adult life.

Agree about the weight comments. She was very good in that tv movie and I wasn't concentrating on her weight. I feel bad for her.

EOnline.com

CHEERS! Cheers alums Kirstie Alley and Shelley Long each eyeing their own sitcom pilots for CBS and NBC respectively.

Some of Kirstie's weight problems...

http://home.snafu.de/tilman/tmp/alley.html

That is just plain mean to publish those pics...how do we know they weren't doctored for "entertainment value"

I really feel very sad for her.

from ETonline.com

KIRSTIE ALLEY MAKES FAT FUNNY
July 22, 2004



"Cheers" alum KIRSTIE ALLEY, who has recently been targeted by tabloids for her weight gain, is making the extra pounds work for her with the new Showtime series "Fat Actress," premiering in 2005. In addition to starring, Alley is also the co-creator as well as co-executive producer of the comedy, which is being compared to the hilarious HBO hit "Curb Your Enthusiasm."

I feel bad for her too.

Jenny Craig Makes Alley a Not-So-Fat Actress
(Monday, December 20 02:31 PM)

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) In the pilot for her new Showtime comedy "Fat Actress," a running joke finds Kirstie Alley lamenting that the only work she can get is as a spokesmodel for Jenny Craig. It's unclear who the joke's on now, because Alley has, indeed, joined Jenny Craig as the diet company's "star" client for 2005.

The Emmy-winning actress will begin appearing in Jenny Craig commercials on Monday, Jan. 10, 2005.

"I had a great time getting fat and now I'm going to have an even greater time losing weight," Alley says. "Since I started working with the Jenny Craig team, they've supported my unconventional, hopefully humorous, approach to coming to grips with the fact that I'm certifiably fat -- I goof around with that on my show, 'Fat Actress.' The truth is, no one wants to think they need Jenny Craig, but once you regain consciousness and realize, as I did, that it's the best and most fun plan out there, you concede."

Alley, currently working with the Jenny Craig team to strategize ways to eat and live healthier, is no stranger to the weight loss system, having lost 15 pounds more than 14 years ago. Her goals this time are loftier, as she hopes to drop 50 pounds.

"Our new advertising campaign is designed to resonate with anyone looking to lose unwanted weight with a safe, scientifically-proven, lifestyle-focused method," says Jim Evans, CEO of Jenny Craig. "Kirstie Alley is a Hollywood star who is struggling with her weight like thousands of other Americans. She has this fantastic energy to encourage and motivate other women and men to join her in weight loss success -- all with an incredible sense of fun and humor."

"Fat Actress," in which the "Cheers" and "Veronica's Closet" star mocks her own oft-maligned public persona, premieres on Showtime in March.

Kirstie Alley takes advantage of the post-holiday sales Monday with her 10-year-old daughter Lillie in Hollywood. The former Cheers star, who has said she wants to slim back down to between 118 and 139 lbs., will return to television in March with her sitcom Fat Actress.

An ambitious Kirstie Alley starts a busy day of slimming down Tuesday by speedwalking in Los Angeles. The newly anointed Jenny Craig spokeswoman, whose series Fat Actress bows next month, was also spotted at a gym, a yoga class and a health food store.

She has already lost some of that weight. She's going to be fine and a great role model for alot of women her age and size. Hooray for her!

Fat Actress star Kirstie Alley and her children William, 12 and Lillie, 10, give each other a great big hand on a goofy family trip to Disney's Magic Kingdom on Friday.

OMG she lost so much weight! That last picture she looks thin (well, at least thin in my world - not Hollywood thin yet). I feel for her. I've heard her a few times on my radio station - she seems really nice and sweet. And of course very funny.

I heard that she is a Sciencetologist.

yuppers.

NATIONAL ENQUIRER/MIKE WALKER...
Fat Actress KIRSTIE ALLEY's shedding lard at a steady clip (33 pounds
so far), but my spy spotted her slipping into the clinic of a top L.A.
gastroenterologist for consultation about. stomach stapling! Before
surgeons will consider the procedure, patients have to prove - as
Kirstie has - that they've got the discipline to stick to a diet
before they go under the knife. Will Kirstie get drastic about weight
loss?

(Yahoo.com)

`Fat Actress' Kirstie Alley Loses 50 Lbs.

Tue Sep 20,11:22 AM ET

Actress Kirstie Alley has lost 50 pounds. The star of Showtime's reality-comedy series "Fat Actress" says she managed the loss through dieting and exercise.

"I am the Jenny Craig evangelist!" Alley, a spokeswoman for the company, declares in the Sept. 26 issue of People magazine, now on newsstands.

By limiting calories with the diet program, the 54-year-old actress who had ballooned up to about 200 pounds has slimmed down noticeably and is 30 pounds away from her original goal.

"When I got fat, I was being stupid. It was a little bit like when I used to do drugs," says Alley, who has long been sober. "Before I stopped doing drugs, I had to spiritually get a grip and go, `What do you want your life to be like?'"

She says the full revelation didn't come until seeing early episodes of "Fat Actress."

"I didn't realize I was that fat," the 5-foot-8 actress says. "Seriously."

Alley now plans to begin dating again. A mother of two, she divorced Parker Stevenson in 1997.

The former "Cheers" actress is interested in another sitcom but doesn't expect Showtime to bring back "Fat Actress" for a second season.

"I think (they) have great concerns about me not being fat," she said.

Here are some pics Bobby to go with your article

BEFORE!!!!





AFTER!!!!!

Thanks, yeah...She's a gorgeous lady...I hope she keeps it up. And yeah, a little nutty with the whole scientology thing.

(Zap2it.com)

Alley Loses Weight, and Maybe 'Fat Actress'
(Wednesday, September 21 08:56 AM)
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com)

After shedding about 50 pounds, Kirstie Alley has been seen on Jenny Craig weight loss commercials bouncing on a trampoline and scrambling after a kindergartner.
"When I got fat, I was being stupid. It was a little bit like when I used to do drugs," says Alley in the Sept. 26 issue of People. "Before I stopped doing drugs, I had to spiritually get a grip and go, 'What do you want your life to be like?'"

The 54-year-old actress teetered on the verge of 200 pounds before focusing on her diet program and exercising. She is currently just 30 pounds short of her goal weight. She jokes that although this slimmer shape is better for her health, it might not help her career, since her Showtime series "Fat Actress" has yet to be renewed for a second season.


"I think [they] have great concerns about me not being fat," she says.
Alley admits that she didn't face her weight problem until she viewed the first few episodes of "Fat Actress," which wasn't helped by the camera adding 10 pounds.

"I didn't realize I was that fat," she says. "Seriously."

Fruit of the Loom has a treat for KIRSTIE ALLEY if she'll wear their pants — a million buck$$! The undies giant wants Kirstie, who's lost nearly 50 pounds on her Fat Actress diet, to be spokesperson for their new "oversized women" line called Fit For Me. Insiders say Kirstie's agreed verbally, but wants to lose 10 more pounds before the commercials are shot.


http://www.nationalenquirer.com/mikewalker/63435

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/indexd?blogid=7


Alley: 'I Haven't Had My Stomach Stapled'


Slimmed-down actress Kirstie Alley has hit back at reports she's had her
stomach stapled, insisting her weight loss is all down to the healthy diet
plan she advertises on TV.


The "Fat Actress" star decided to shed her weight when she ballooned to over
200 pounds last year and decided to try the Jenny Craig Diet to win her
battle.


She was so impressed with the results she agreed to endorse the diet plan on
national TV.


But new reports suggest Alley is a cheat, and she actually lost the weight
by having stomach-stapling surgery, similar to that of Carnie Wilson and
Sharon Osbourne.


Her lawyer Barry Felsen fumes, "It's an outright lie that she had her
stomach stapled. It's so false it's preposterous."


Alley's publicist Rob Levy adds, "She can show she doesn't have the scars
that this procedure leaves."

ITA... I really loved her in Fat Actress, but I guess I was the only one. Anyone know if they are doing it on DVD? Not likely, I'm guessing

She is beautiful!

Fat Actress is on DVD. I didn't have a chance to see it on Showtime so I rented it - I thought it was hilarious.

I guess I'd rather she have gastric bypass than go back to coke to lose the weight....But I hope it's exercise & a healthy diet. She has lost a decent amount of weight--by which I mean, not too much and not too fast.

(IMDB.COM)

Kirstie Dances Off the Pounds

Former Cheers star Kirsite Alley has danced off the pounds on her way to a new figure by hiring Madonna and Usher's choreographers. The one-time heavyweight claims to have lost a whopping 55 pounds dancing with Hollywood teachers Rich & Fly, and she's urging other fatties to don their high heels and take to the dance floor. Alley, who once weighed a whopping 219 pounds says, "I really wanted to celebrate that I've gotten thinner and these guys are just brilliant. They choreograph Usher and J.Lo. I really love doing this. It just makes you feel like you're in a celebration." Alley and her choreographers are now working on a high-energy dance work-out video - and she insists it will encourage fans to look good while they boogie. She explains, "You never see a stripper in flip-flops... and that's because flat-footed looks like ducks and flat-footed doesn't make people feel sexy." Meanwhile, the actress aims to lose another 25-35 pounds.

Kirstie Alley, slimming 'Actress'
Performer tells Oprah of weight loss

Kirstie Alley in April. The actress told Oprah Winfrey she's dropped 55 pounds since starting a diet program.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Kirstie Alley has lost 55 pounds -- and says she wants to lose more.

Alley, whose weight gain was documented in various unflattering paparazzi photographs, said that when she started the Jenny Craig diet program, she was horrified at the results of her weigh-in.

"I weighed 219," the 54-year-old actress said Monday on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." "For someone who spent most of her life at 130 ... it was a shock."

Now a spokesperson for Jenny Craig, Alley said of her weight gain: "I made some good decisions simultaneously with some bad decisions.

"The good part of it was, 'I'm going to spend more time with my kids, I'm going to cook.' The bad decision was -- and this is the dumbest decision I've ever made in my life -- it went like this: If a man really loves me, he will not have to love me for my body. He will really love me just for me. ... When did I decide I was a big fat girl?"

She divorced Parker Stevenson in 1997. They have two children, William True, 13, and Lillie Price, 11.

Alley, who starred on the TV series "Cheers," "Veronica's Closet" and, most recently, "Fat Actress," said: "I've lost 17 1/2 percent body fat."

Her goal is to lose 25 to 30 more pounds, she said.

Wow, she looks good!!


Kirstie Alley at the Celebrity Fight Night XII yesterday in Phoenix, Arizona

Wow! Congratulations to her! She looks great.

"chicken fettucini! chicken fettucini!"

Kirstie Alley proudly flaunts her new body at the M:I 3 premiere Thursday in L.A. The actress is pals with fellow Scientologist Tom Cruise.

Fat Actress No More

Kirstie Alley popped up a couple of times in today’s gossip sheets. In an odd picture on the New York Post’s Page Six, she’s shown with a water pistol blasting people at a Hollywood restaurant, “causing a wardrobe malfunction,” according to the caption. (We’d just say it caused her pants to fall down.) Meanwhile, Liz Smith has an item which reports that Alley prefers her men not to bother with underwear. “I think that V line below their stomach is just really beautiful and sexy and I think when you unzip their jeans you should see that—and not a pair of white underwear.” By the way, Smith refers to Alley as “the girl who once publicly thanked her ex-husband, Parker Stevenson, for ‘giving me the big one.’” We’re not quite sure which big what she’s referring to, but it’s safe to say we’ll have what she’s having….