The Big Life of Kirstie Alley

Kristie Alley is a VERY interesting story. She was born on January 12th, 1951 (turned 59 this year), in Wichita, Kansas. She attended Kansas State University and then University of Kansas before dropping out in her sophomore year to pursue a career in acting. In 1982, she auditioned for a supporting role in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and later got the role. She did not return for the third movie due to salary issues. After that, she turned to what most of her career would be full of, a miniseries. The first miniseries was North and South, later she would also be in the second playing Virgilia Hazard. Then after a couple of movie and television appearances, she would take a role that would stabilize her career. That role was Rebecca Howe on the popular television series 'Cheers' in 1987. Soon she would be in the popular movie series: 'Look Who's Talking' in 1989, which raked in a big 100 million dollars at the box office. After being nominated for two Emmys for her role on Cheers she would finally understand why people say the third the is the charm when she won an Emmy the third time she was nominated in 1991. After Cheers wrapped up and Look Who's Talking franchise finally died, she did a huge bulk of miniseries. In 1995 she was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her acting on the big and small screen.

Now it's time to discuss the reason I am writing this post about her. She is the perfect example of ridiculous. Kirstie is a pretty weird name. As the years passed she gained more and more weight. In 2005, he weight went over 200 pounds and she decided to do something about it. That something a show on Showtime called Fat Actress. Fat Actress was basically a mockumentary about the daily life of an overweight actress. Alley played herself in the show of course. Ever since, she has been an advocate for obesity. Once she began to lose weight the weight-loss program, Jenny Craig, wanted her as their spokesperson. Of course, Kristie accepted and it seemed like she was getting skinnier and skinnier every commercial. Since her battle with weight is a great story, Kristie was on Oprah praising how she lost 75 pounds! She walked right threw the middle of the stage in a beach-ish gown then showed off her body in a semi-bikini outfit. Oprah and the world was stunned. What's even more stunning? - she gained all the weight back plus a few more pounds. In March 2010 she decided to take another crack at this weight-loss thing. She launched 'Organic Liason', the first USDA approved organic weight loss product. Since then she has lost a reported 20 pounds. In the same month, A&E gave her a reality series. It is called Kristie Alley's Big Life, it presents her story of how she gained all that weight back and how she is living her 'big' life and her trying to normally raise her two teenage offsprings. So Kristie Alley is my first Silly Person of the Week Award.

Don't think she is silly enough to get my first silly person of the week award? Soak this up - she is a devoted scientologist. Mhmm. Like her new catchphrase for her show says, "Life. Lick It".