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.
"...it would be cool to say I had ripped off the Scientologists and learned how to become Theta-Prime for FREE."
LOL! THAT was funny. ;o)
"Of course, I never did this (it being highly illegal and all), but I did fantasize about it."
That's the "lawyer" coming out in you. ;o)
What a great fantasy, though.
Too bad it's illegal.
LOL !!!!!
"How could making sounds that a street walker would make help her? ; )"
LOL!
BTW, I love what you've done with your homepage. ;o)
Yes, I put my ALL my skill and knowhow into it and I get many compliments!
LoL!
I think it's very cute.
It made me lol. ;o)
D'oh!! That one took me a minute to get...
Yes, I was thinking about putting a self portrait on it, however I decided not to take "cuteness" to the limit!
heh...heh...heh...
Gavel swinging....
OVERRULED!!!
As I recall, she usually was coked up on the set of "Cheers," back in her skinny days. As for not wanting "fat sex," her only hope is to find a guy with a thing for zaftig women. Most men, I suspect, don't want to keep their eyes closed the entire time.
You made me look! ; )
Ya' wanna race?
I'll strap into a Mustang
(P-51 that is).... ; )
You fly a P-51?
Then she IS married...;-)
Would that be L. Ron Hubbbard's book, Diuretics?
Yes, I make killer bread.
ROTFLOL!
That's a good one. ;o)
In my dreams!
The last time I was up in one was in '85. It was "Gunfighter I" and General Urshler (SAC Commander at the time) gave me the opportunity to unwillingly "pee" LoL, at over 200kts no more than 20' off the deck.....
When I asked for a parachute before we rotated, his reply was "You can take one, however they are VERY uncomfortable and I refuse to wear one, and YOU can't leave the aircraft until I do!
If I had an extra $800,000 or so I would own one, however I am still working on that goal of financial freedom! ; )
I have however spent years in the past working on the birds of the "Confederate Air Force" (I refuse to succumb to PC and use the title "Consolidated Air Force")
Your "home page" is GREAT and worth commendation!
Yeah, but it may pi$$ some people off.
ROTFLMAO!!!!
What a concept for a movie staring "Kristie Alley"!
Attack of the Killer Loaf"!
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