Kirstie Alley said she ‘regretted’ appearing on Oprah in a bikini in 2006 to show off weight loss
Kirstie Alley, who died of cancer on Monday at the age of 71, has admitted that she regretted appearing on The Oprah Winfrey Show in a bikini.
The Cheers star debuted her slimmed-down figure on the talk show in 2006, after losing 75 pounds, but later shared that she regretted the decision in an interview she gave. larry king in 2010.
It was my idea. I just thought if he could make me come here in a bikini, then I know I’m free. And then I realized, “Oh, my God! Now I have to live with this, the rest of my life,” she told King.
Regrets: Kirstie Alley, who passed away from cancer on Monday at the age of 71, admitted that she regretted appearing on The Oprah Winfrey Show in a bikini; pictured 2016
“Let me tell you something very stupid about myself,” the actress told the TV host.
‘This is what I said when I did that: no one can take pictures. And I thought, well, there are no pictures, so this will be the end. I’ll go away, do blah blah blah, and that’s the end of it,’ she admitted.
‘So stupid!’ she said. “All they have to do is take a frame shot… I didn’t know this would be all over YouTube, it’s had millions of views,” the exasperated star admitted.
‘OMG I have to live with this now!’: The Cheers star debuted her slimmed-down figure on the talk show in 2006 after losing 75 pounds, but later shared that she regretted the decision.
King interrupted, saying: ‘It had a life of its own…’
‘He does!’ Alley stated. It was his own show from him. Alley also explained that it was his own idea: “Of course it wasn’t Oprah’s idea, she doesn’t have stupid ideas!”
Alley has been candid about her weight journey over the years, and was a spokesperson for Jenny Craig, losing 75 pounds on the show in 2004.
Candid: Alley was candid about his weight journey over the years, and was a spokesperson for Jenny Craig for several years; In the photo 2019
Naive: She also launched her own comedy series titled Fat Actress in 2005, where she played an overweight woman trying to make it in Hollywood.
The following year, she began her comedy series, Fat Actress, and further discussed her weight issues in her book How To Lose Your A** and Regain Your Life: Reluctant Confessions of a Big-Butted Star, which was published in 2005.
She later joined Dancing With The Stars and ended up losing 100 pounds. However, his weight continued to yo-yo in the following years.
The star’s family announced Monday that he had died after a brief battle with the disease, which he “recently discovered.”
Trim: When you joined Dancing With The Stars in 2011, you ended up losing 100 pounds. However, her weight continued to yo-yo in the following years.
Their representatives said Tuesday People that he had colon cancer, which is known as a ‘silent killer’ because symptoms usually take longer to appear than in other types of the disease.
He had been receiving treatment at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, near his Clearwater home.
In a statement on social media, her family said: “She was surrounded by her closest family and she fought with great strength, leaving us with the certainty of her never-ending joie de vivre and the adventures ahead.”
Alley rose to fame on the sitcom Cheers, which she joined in 1987. She was a Hollywood stalwart for decades, but hadn’t been seen on the big screen since 2015.
Remembering: Alley died at the age of 71 after a brief battle with cancer. Her family said that she ‘was surrounded by her closest family and she fought very hard’; In the photo 2019