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America's real-life answer to Bridget Jones! Kirstie Alley has captured our hearts on screen and now she is poised to do it again in print as she laughingly explores our obsession with fat, food, love, sex, beauty and weight loss. "Dear Diary, Decided to write book today. Thought am good writer, am smart gal, have interesting sex-filled (lie) life. Thought can write about men, life, love, family, food, sex and fatassedness. Thought can share stories with tiny-butted and big-butted alike. Can tell people why fat, why (was) cokehead, why traffic jams and herbal laxatives don't mix, and why suede pants and sprinklers have same rule...More important..can show world how life is beautiful and funny, no matter size of butt."Amazon.com Review
The increasing girth of Kirstie Alley's rear end has figured prominently (pun intended) on many a tabloid cover in recent years. At the peak of her career ("Cheers"), of course, her butt was indeed at its smallest. It's no surprise that she therefore sums up her life philosophy this way: one's level of happiness tends to be inversely proportional to the size of one's posterior.

With extremely salty language on par with what you might hear in a 50 Cent song, Alley has penned a self-deprecating Hollywood tell-all in the disguise of "note-to-self"-style diary entries. With many apologies to Bridget Jones, we learn that Alley is a former cocaine addict who once participated in the snorting of a six-foot-long trail of powder at a party. (She's says she's currently a Scientologist and credits L. Ron Hubbard with curing her of her narcotic addiction, as well as her issues with food.) We also learn--for better or worse--that she has the hots for John Travolta, Kid Rock, and Ben Affleck, and that she blames her weight gain for a super-extended period of unplanned celibacy.

As crass as she is (she kisses and tells, even including the sordid details of her losing her virginity in the front seat of a Chevy Impala), it's hard not to feel sympathetic for Alley. She admits that following a miscarriage in her third month of pregnancy and subsequent diagnosis of infertility—which were also broadcast in the tabloids--her weight started ballooning. And as much as she dishes about Hollywood actors such as Tim Matheson (of Animal House fame), she has the decency to leave Parker Stevenson, her ex-husband and father of their two adopted children, out of the gossiping. Even so, overall, this feels like a strangely extended endorsement of Dianetics.--Erica Jorgensen ... Read more

Customer Reviews (38)

As advertised
The book is short and sweet,It is more a compilation of her take on funny stories that happened throughout her life than it is an actual weight loss book.Thus I feel the title is somewhat misleading.

Misled
I was very disappointed in this little book. The title leads one to believe that it will be a journey through Kirstie's public battle with weight.
Although there were small excerpts from her journal at the beginning of each chapter regarding her weight and various issues of her daily life, the stories that followed were UNRELATED, but rather snapshots of her early childhood, or some random story about her early life in Hollywood.
Kirstie's caustic and ascerbic wit are in tact and although some of the passages were funny, it's not what I thought I was buying.
The old adage....."never judge a book by it's cover" would have come in handy here.
Huge disappointment.

I expected SO much more
I have always loved and admired Kirstie in everything I have ever seen her in.I expected a thoroughly honest and entertaining book and feel like I got neither.
The diary entries that start the chapters are mildly amusing, and generally have zero to do with what the chapters are about.
The references to Scientology are really quite annoying and frequent and seeing how 4 years after she has written the book and nothing has changed for her; makes it also quite laughable.
I honestly wish I never would have bought and read this as I doubt I will ever find her as witty as the characters she had portrayed.

The real Kirstie
"What you see is what you get" with Kirstie Alley!This quick-read will make you laugh and realize that, celebrity or not, we all face the same dilemmas.I very much appreciated Kirstie's candor - she is real, down-to-earth gal!

good reading if you like Kirstie
Cute, just as Kirstie. There is no diet information in this book. Just Kirstie accepting her size. It was good and I enjoyed it. I think acceptance is what this book is about. ... Read more

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Chapters: Ginger Rogers, Pete Loncarevich, Kim Novak, Patrick Duffy, Kirstie Alley, Jason Atkinson, Jeff Golden, Jerry Pettibone, Tee Corinne, Bill Pearl, Neighb'rhood Childr'n, Samuel Colver, Dean Hartgraves, Chauncy Nye, Stephen Reno, Reuben F. Maury, Juan Carlos Romero Hicks, Ida Gearon. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 101. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Pete Loncarevich -Side Note: "CW" never stood for "Coast Wheels" as it is widely thought. Coast Wheels was a bike shop that Roger Worsham owned. Custom Works was a completely different and independent company. This is in contrast with JMC (Jim Melton Cyclery) which did start out as a bicycle shop and then began manufacturing its own BMX components including entire bicycles. National Bicycle Association (NBA) Bicycle Motocross League (BMXL) National Bicycle League (NBL) United Bicycle Racers (UBR) American Bicycle Association (ABA) Shared with 13 Expert Kelly McDougallInternational Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF) United States Cycling Federation (USCF)* National Bicycle Association (NBA) Bicycle Motocross League (BMXL) National Bicycle League (NBL) United Bicycle Racers (UBR) American Bicycle Association (ABA) United States Bicycle Motocross Association (USBA) International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF) Pro Series Championships and Invitationals The 1986 Paris Yoplait BMX Challenge was an invitational race sponsored and promoted by the Yoplait Yogurt company in which American and English pros as well as French pros were brought together to compete in a single race. As is typical in Europe, the public had greater enthusiasm for BMX than the American public, in part because bicycle racing of any type was and is much more popular in Europe (and in Asia and South America as well) than in the United States. As with t...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4594764 ... Read more

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Weekly news and general interest magazine which re-appeared between 2004 and 2007, and was distributed by inclusion inside certain local newspapers across the country. This issue has a photograph of actress Kirstie Alley on its cover. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Progressive, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2005. The length of the article is 543 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Democracy diet.(interpretation of Kirstie Alley's television show Fat Actress )
Author: Kate Clinton
Publication: The Progressive (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 69Issue: 5Page: 44(1)

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August 24, 2009 issue of Woman's World with Kirstie Alley on the magazine cover and an article about her weight loss weight gain struggles inside the magazine along with articles on reverse aging, gorgeous hair, preventing stress, blissful sleep, hidden savings in your supermarket circular, and much more. ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Robert Gates, Arlen Specter, Tara Snyder, Hattie Mcdaniel, Kirstie Alley, William Eugene Smith, Joe Walsh, Kyle Farnsworth, Rick Mears, Al Corley. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Robert Michael Gates (né le 25 septembre 1943 à Wichita, Kansas) est le secrétaire à la Défense des États-Unis depuis le 18 décembre 2006. Entré dans le gouvernement de George W. Bush à la suite de la démission de Donald Rumsfeld, le 8 novembre 2006, Robert Gates est maintenu à son poste par le président Barack Obama, travaillant donc désormais au sein de son administration. Natif de Wichita au Kansas, Gates fut membre des Boy Scouts of America. Après le lycée de Wichita East d'où il sort diplômé avec mention en 1961, il continue des études supérieures grâce à une bourse scolaire au prestigieux College of William and Mary. Il y est notamment président de la fraternité Alpha Phi Omega et membre des jeunes républicains. Diplômé en 1965 d'un B.A. en histoire européenne, il poursuit ses études à l'l'université d'Indiana de Bloomington d'où il est diplômé en 1966 d'un master en histoire. En 1974, il termine son cursus universitaire par un doctorat d'histoire de la Russie et de l'Union soviétique, acquise à l'université de Georgetown. Historien, il est également à titre honorifique, docteur en lettre du College of William and Mary (1998). Parallèlement à ses études, Robert Gates fait son entrée à la CIA en 1966 en tant que simple analyste de renseignements. Après avoir franchi graduellement tous les paliers de la hiérarchie, Ronald Reagan le propose en 1987 pour diriger la direction de la principale agence de renseignements américaine, mais il est contraint de retirer sa candidature en raison de questions quant au rôle attr...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr&id=1139513 ... Read more

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2 magazines both of which have cover photos and feature articles on Kirstie Alley. First magazine is the November 10, 2006 issue of Life magazine, which at that time was a small version of the magazine distributed on a weekly basis by inclusion inside certain local newspapers. The Life magazine is a new, unread issue that does not have a mailing label. The second magazine in the set is the May 2010 issue of Ladies' Home Journal This is a home delivery copy that has had the mailing label removed. This issue has been read and remains in very good condition with cover wear and some pages showing wear. ... Read more

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New weekly magazine by the editors of Good Housekeeping. ... Read more

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Ladies' Home Journal Magazine with Kirstie Alley cover story - Plus romantic fashion shoot with Christopher Meloni. ... Read more

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Magazine - also includes articles on Walk Off Weight, Quickie Cleaning, Healthier Chicken & Pasta Dinners, Slash Insurance Bills, Organizing Tips ... Read more

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Biography magazine Dcember 1997 Kirstie Alley cover. Articles include Kirstie, Calvin Klein, Muhammad Ali, Emma Thompson,Rosenne, Typhoid Mary, more. ... Read more