Posted on 11/21/2004 12:30:36 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
It's been a rough few years for Kirstie Alley, 53, and not just because her career has been in a slump. On the episode of Oprah Winfrey's show that aired Nov. 12, Kirstie made a shocking revelation that she hasn't had sex in four and a half years, confessing, "I don't want to have fat sex!"
About 10 months ago, Kirstie told Oprah she faced the fact that she had blown up: At last count her weight was about 260 pounds. Kirstie recalled stripping down and looking at herself in a mirror:
"I have seen myself naked.... I couldn't believe it. And so I just was crushed."
But while Kirstie may be admitting this, what the heavy-set, sexstarved actress isn't saying is that she's also been blowing up at everyone around her! Suffering the strains of weight gain and career pressure, sources say she's been yelling at crew members on the set of her upcoming Showtime TV show, Fat Actress, and has taken to loudly fighting about script changes and location decisions.
Before production began in Los Angeles two months ago, Kirstie seemed perfectly comfortable with the show's premise. In Fat Actress, she plays a fictionalized version of herself, an actress coping with her weight. She joked to producers that they should get her wardrobe in three different sizes to match her weight fluctuations. But once shooting started, says a friend, that happy-go-lucky attitude disappeared faster than the on-set snacks.
"Suddenly, Kirstie's ego kicked in; before this series she didn't seem to care about how she looked," the friend says. In fact, the actress was regularly seen walking around L.A. in frumpy clothes and uncombed hair, even eating pie at House of Pies.
Now, the friend says, "she gets irritable so quickly, makeup has to rush in to dab the sweat off her face." A source says the chainsmoking, popsicle-sucking actress has flown off the handle at the show's cameramen, wardrobers, and makeup artists. The people she's always nice to are the celebs who visit the set as guest stars.
Recently, on line in the cafeteria, Kirstie loudly berated an assistant after a pair of earrings Kirstie needed for an upcoming scene disappeared. "She flipped out," says the source. "The next day, four staff members were fired." Reps for Kirstie did not return Star's calls for comment.
STRESS FACTOR
Kirstie's blow-ups seem to be fueled by major career stress. Fat Actress, which debuts in March 2005, is mostly unscripted, relying on Kirstie's onscreen personality and her ability to adlib. Kirstie has worked little since 2000, when her sitcom Veronica's Closet ended its three-season run, and sources say she is desperate for a comeback.
That may be tough for an actress whose weight has ballooned from 125 pounds during her Cheers days to a high of almost 300. But Kirstie is hoping to make the most of her girth. In one scene, a source says, she gives Kid Rock a lap dance to Sir Mixa- Lot's song "Baby Got Back," featuring the lyrics, "I like big butts."
Meanwhile, sources say she focuses her ire toward the little people on the set --workers both small in waistline and low on the job chain. She keeps that anger in check, though, when it comes to her kids, the source says. Kirstie frequently phones her son William, 12, and daughter Lillie, 10, during the day. Indeed, Kirstie told Oprah that it's her love for her children, whom she enjoys cooking for -- and eating with -- that led her to pack on the pounds.
All that may soon change. Kirstie has mentioned many times that she's concerned for her health and knows she needs to slim down. She recently sold a yet unwritten memoir to Rodale Press called How To Lose Your Ass and Regain Your Life, and she's lost 16 pounds since filming began. OK, it's barely a dent. Which is probably just fine by the show's producers, since they only have a show as long as their fat actress remains just that -- fat.
I wonder what's up with all these female Hollywood elites. I will admit I almost felt tempted to take Kidman up on her offer, but then I thought, "nah", because it would go against my principle of "being committed to a relationship". I think she was just looking for some demon seed, and dump the poor guy who gave it to her once she got what she wanted.
It's only shocking to liberals, to whom frequency of sex is the only valid measurement for quality of life. ;)
"But while Kirstie may be admitting this, what the heavy-set, sexstarved actress isn't saying is that she's also been blowing up at everyone around her!"
Fat, sexstarved, and blowing up at everybody.
What a mess.
She should try some hormones.
I'm too old for her though. Even though I'm like ten years younger than her. LOL
ROFL!
Isn't she a scientologist? Surely they have some weight-loss programs. They've cornered the market on every other kind of self-help program imaginable.
I could give a humorous reply to that, but I think I will graciously refrain. :)
I believe she is, but maybe
she's a lapsed Scientologist. ;o)
"They've cornered the market on every other kind of self-help program imaginable."
LOL! That's the truth.
BTW, I wonder what it means to be a lapsed scientologist? You're out of the closet? You want to keep more of your money? You don't mind being sued?
"You're out of the closet? You want to keep more of your money? You don't mind being sued?"
Any, or all, of the above?
I used to live in Pinellas County, FL.
Their headquarters is in downtown Clearwater.
At that time, nobody liked them being there.
They were a real nuisance.
"She's beginning to sound like a damned desperate tramp."
Well, she is the same woman who when she won an Emmy thanked her then husband (Parker Stevens? maybe?) for "giving [her] the big one all these years". Aske on a later interview what she meant by that she said: you know, giving me the big one!
Foolishly, I suppose, she dumped him.
Eating at the House Of Pies, I'd say she was a closet lesbian.
ROTFLMAO!!!!
Wait a minute....a 4 year span would elevate me to the list of the promiscuous... ; (
Yeah, dingbat, and you dumped the guy giving it to ya.
How could making sounds that a street walker would make help her? ; )
Oh - go ahead! :)
Post #34 comes as close as I can get. LOL
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