Kirstie Alley Gained 83 Pounds 

Kirstie Alley has talked to Oprah recently about her weight and now she’s talking to People magazine.

We think Kirstie is brave to be so candid, but it seems that her entire identity for the past couple of years has been about her weight. And that’s a little sad.

Alley, 58, during her three-year stint as a Jenny Craig spokeswoman, famously trimmed down to 145 lbs. after losing and keeping off 75 lbs. But since parting ways with company in 2007, she has not worked out and banished her gym equipment to the garage. As for her diet, her small, low-calorie portions gave way to Chinese takeout and pasta drenched with butter. “I fell off the horse,” says the 5′8″ star.

“My food demons are Chinese food, sugar, butter. A lot of butter. If I’m at the movies, usually I eat popcorn without butter, but I’d say, “I’m at the movies, so who cares?” And toast with butter. Or let’s say I had two cups of pasta and six tablespoons of butter on it. There was a lot of butter going on.”

Alley also says she gained weight when she adopted a vegetarian diet. “For seven months I was a vegetarian, and I can’t tell you how much weight I gained being a vegetarian! A vegetarian would probably be eating vegetables. But to me being a vegetarian meant I’m going to eat enchiladas with no meat, and I’m going to eat lots of bread, lots of carbs.”

So what are Kirstie Alley’s weight loss goals? “I have to be below 140 to really look good. I have to work my legs like crazy. Actually, do you want my real goal? My real goal’s always too low. I love the way I look at, like, 128. One time on Cheers, I weighed about 148 lbs., and they told me to lose, like, 20 lbs. Now, I’m 5′8″, so at 148 lbs., I wasn’t fat. But they’re saying, “You know, you need to lose 20 lbs.” So what does that put me at? 128. That’s where I keep getting this number.”