Life as a "Fat Actress"
Kirstie Alley: Liberated by new show
Kristie Ally, the star of popular TV shows such as North and South and Cheers is the star of a new reality-comedy series - Fat Actress. The very title of the reality-comedy series is a rebuke to the notion that "F" is the modern scarlet letter and that anyone wearing it, especially in Hollywood, should get thin or get lost.Alley does intend to get thin, or at least thinner. But she refuses to let unflattering tabloid accounts or general slander stand as the last word on her weight, her worth or her employability. "The second I made the decision to create this show, I was liberated. The game the tabloids wanted me in was the game of hiding, and then they find me and they would get the worst shot of me they could possibly get. It was like I was being hunted. I thought, 'End of game,' " Alley said. Unkind photos aren't the reason she decided to produce (with Brenda Hampton, 7th Heaven creator) and star in Fat Actress, and they are not why she wants to slim down. "I'm personally happier than I've ever been in my entire life, and I've been happy, really happy for many years," Alley said. But her weight, which has been as high as 203 lbs, doesn't suit her active life as single mom to two children, aged 8 and 10. "I love to go to Italy, to Positano. You walk up a thousand steps every day there. I'm going to Italy this summer. Am I going to be running up and down those steps in Positano or am I going to be, like, sitting in a wheelchair at the bottom?" she said, adding a dramatic image for effect. Source: CNN
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